Our special breaking News Coverage continues now of the third, he has a third, criminal indictment of former President Donald Trump. Im laura coates. Remember. Not the news tonight, still stunning, even though people expect an indictment to come right now it is here. We have believed it sink in. The 45th president indicted by a grand jury and jack smiths investigation into efforts to overturn the 2020 election. And its not lost on anyone that, while trump is facing charges over the last election, he is, of course, in the middle of his reelection campaign, flora. This is the third time, the third time that donald trump has been criminally indicted informants at this point . Special counsel jack smith charged him in the classified documents probe in june, and the Manhattan Grand Jury charge of the former president for Business Fraud back in march and just listen to what Special Counsel jack smith had to say tonight. The attack on our nations capital, on january six 2021, was an unprecede
Believe that he should be charged with a crime. i m seeing people on the right tonight parse it out. i don t love youth jen six, i think he was wrong. the indictment seems thin, i wish they hadn t have done it. remind folks that the arguments the senators made, this is an improper way to handle, this is should be done through the legal system and the justice department, give it time. shows that they are consistent. now you ve all had a chance to go through this in more detail. so you ve got more things to stand out to you here. like what? i think the one that stands out to me, kind of a roadmap for state and local prosecutors. when the indictment does raise new allegations. we did not know of before. for example arizona. there s evidence here that says trump and giuliani and eastman when they called the house speaker what did they ask him to do? to do things that violated his oath. by telling him can you get your legislator to overturn the popular vote. arizona is currently