The first one is Conspiracy To Defraud the United States. Second is the conspiracy to obstruct an official proceeding. And then the conspiracy against rights. Thats, of course, the Voting Rights of u. S. Citizens around the country. Now, ill read you just a part where the Special Counsel describes what theormer president is accused of dog here. It says that the defendant spread lies, that there had been outcome determinative fraud in the election and that he had actually won. These claims were false. And the defendant knew that they were false. But the defendant repeated and widely disseminated them anyway to make his knowingly false claims appear legitimate. According to the prosecutors, wolf, the former president disregarded the advice of all of his appointed officials, people inside his own government, his experts, people from the Justice Department, people from the intelligence community, people from the Homeland Security department, all of whom were telling him that there was no s
I am emily. President donald trump struggles to unite his party. The reporting on nikki haleys refusal to endorse them. They say they are voting for someone else. Michael cohen will take the stand and president Donald Trumps criminal trial after a week of fireworks from another key witness, Stormy Daniels. Jen psaki will talk about her former bosss Reelection Campaign in her new book. Grab your coffee and settle in. Welcome to the weekend. We begin this weekend with another wild outburst from President Donald Trump outside of court. He attacked the judge and prosecutors in the case, claiming his criminal trial is corrupt and declaring he would be, quote, very proud to go to jail for our constitution. His efforts he defied everything the constitution actually embodied. He is laying the groundwork to repeat that playbook in 2024. This week, we are talking by challenging the results of the next election. Trump said people should, quote, follow your heart. Joining us now from our Homeland
individuals being told that you will do this, you have the power to overturn this election. you can drk you know, fake electors, let them in, certify all of this. we ll lean on the j us tis department i read in there. maybe they can do something. each time mike pence has the same response of like, no, i cannot do this, and he counters it. i think the other thing that stood out was christmas day, so typical of my former boss calling the president up and saying, merry christmas, mr. president, and trump of course responds with, let s talk about the election, right? i think that was just so telling because that s just so typical of the dynamic there between the two of them. as a homeland security person who watched the chaos around the country and the threats, i just wanted to follow up on david s point because when i think about this indictment today and i think about a big step towards accountability with what happened here these past couple of years that the country has lived through,
we should believe him. there is a segment of the population that donald trump could do no wrong for. those are the individuals that support him, that stand by him, that will help fundraise for him. and i m not a political guru. i m a homeland security person. but there is obviously a portion of those individuals that are radicalized and they re not going to be deradicalized. not by going to jail for january 6th. we saw one of them who was prosecuted for going to january 6th and fighting, circling obama s house a couple weeks ago. these folks are at it. they won t give up. i might change it to say guru. we often hear president biden say the comment, judge me against the alternative. that s his commentary. there was a moment today where lisa murkowski was asked about the prospects of a rematch between biden and trump, even in spite of all of these conversations. listen to what she had to say.
obviously, you were talking about this, you were warning people. what does it say to you that the fundraising is there, that this could happen and being charged, or even the prospect of being charged in the mix to money go up? well, he told us, this? right 2016, he can shoot someone in the middle man and his supporters would still love him. we should believe him at this point, right? there is a segment of the population that donald trump can do no wrong for. those are the individuals that support him, that stand by him, that will help fund-raise for him, and i am not a political guru, obviously, i m a homeland security person, but there is obviously a portion of those individuals that are radicalized. they are not going to be deradicalized. they re not gonna be deradicalized for going to jail by january six, we saw one of them was going to prosecute a foregone january six and fighting, circling obama s house a couple weeks ago. these folks are out of, they are not going to give up, a