Again, that wasnt the perceived goal here. That was the perception among his supporters that think its gone too far. Lets get more from Griff Jenkins. Thats right, neil. Fox news confirmed that former President Trump is indeed in the courtroom right now. He entered at about 3 52 p. M. So just under ten minutes ago. Hes wearing a blue suit, a red to you. Flanked by his two attorneys. Fox has confirmed that we expect him to plead not guilty to the four felony charges hes facing in this indictment. Three are conspiracy charges, one is obstruction. Before he entered that courtroom, a little less than an hour ago, his motorcade entered the garage here at the federal courthouse. He was processed and fingerprinted. Theres no mug shot taken because the court says theres plenty of pictures of him to provide. Hes not arrested. But he is obviously being processed. Now we wait for this Court Proceeding to get underway at the time of our note from our producer, jay gibson inside, the Magistrate Jud
world. it is thursday, october 13th. i m christine romans. donald trump remains a clear and present danger to democracy. that s the case the january 6th committee plans to make in this afternoon s final hearing before the november mid terms. sources tell cnn we ll hear new testimony and recently uncovered evidence. the political coup and all of the events surrounding the attempt to overthrow joe biden s majority electoral college, the insurrection nair ray violence, the mobilization of the mob, all of it flowed out of the will and determination of one man to seize the presidency and that s donald trump. danielle diaz joins us live from washington. what else can we expect this afternoon? it s really important to emphasize this will be the last time we ll publicly hear in this kind of format from the committee. of course, the last time that they will have some sort of hearing to present to the american people publicly what they found in this investigation of donald trump
Fraud statute you. it was aimed at people destroying documents or intimidating witnesses to appear before hearings. it s never really been used for something like this. again, not for the connection with the people that on the january 6th capitol attacks. what smith is charging, trump violated the obstruction statue by trying to pressure pence, pressure secretaries of state, to not count the electoral vote. that s the line between is that obstructing congress or is trump trying every crazy option outside the rules to change the results? the court is very reluctant the supreme court is quite reluctant to use these criminal laws to intrude in to what they think is sort of the messy give and take and the brawling of politics, this is where the trial judge is important. someone that wanted to accelerate the case, could halt
Justice clarence thomas. also notable here, christine. the fbi searched former president trump s mar-a-lago estate and the apparent mishandling of sensitive government documents. separately from what the committee is investigating, the justice department has fired off subpoenas to dozens of individuals connected to trump. bottom line here, christine, we re going to hear publicly from the committee, that panel that has been investigating the january 6th capitol attacks. the last hearing and all of the context around the mid terms just less than four weeks away. of course, they want voters to listen to their findings. danielle, i know you ll be watching. let s bring in michael zeldin. good morning. good morning. listen to committee member jamie raskin on whether they have specific evidence linking extremist groups with the former president or his inner circle. the inner circle includes the
Incompetence. and this is the time to rip it up and restart and have a nonpartisan system put in place. but in the meantime, what s going to happen with the mayor s race? allegedly we were going to get the revised numbers without the 135,000 test ballots as soon as later today. we will see if they show what yesterday s numbers show. the adams campaign was very much ahead in the first round. everything is questioned now. in addition to 124,000 outstanding absentee ballots. but it looks like eric adams, maya wiley and kathryn garcia, we should know later today how this shakes out. but this is the worst possible time. thank you for explaining all of that. great to see you. just into cnn, the house of representatives has just voted to formalize the select committee to investigate the january 6th capitol attacks. speaker nancy pelosi, as you know, resorted to this move after senate republicans killed a chance for a bipartisan