Person to be charged in connection with the insurrection according to one count is a former president and a current front runner for the nomination of a Major Political party who is already facing 74 criminal counts. Who stands accused of trying to defraud the government that he led at that time. Trying to obstruct the proceedings of a branch of government and trying to overturn the will of millions of voters in the swing states that determined the outcome of the Electoral College. The big question now that trump has been booked and fingerprinted, whats next in this case . Which is really unlike any other in American History. Here is what team trump has planned according to the New York Times. His lawyers used the arraignment to hint at one of his central defense strategies, a request to delay a second pending federal trial for months if not years. Delaying the proceedings as much as possible is widely expected to be part of mr. Trumps legal strategy given that he could effectively cal
Welcome to cnn news central. 24 hours from now we expect to see donald trump on his way to Federal Court here in washington scheduled to make his First Court Appearance after term prosecutors charged him with four separate counts in a sweeping indictment. Special counsel alleges trump was central in a plot to overturn the 2020 election. The indictment also says he had help coconspirators. It repeatedly references six coconspirators. Cnn has been able to identify five of those six. They are former Trump Lawyers rudy giuliani, john eastman and sidney powell, former Justice Department official Jeffrey Clark and protrump lawyer kenneth chesebro. I want to go to zach cohen. Tell us what we should expect to see tomorrow and included in that what kind of security should we expect to see . Yeah, the expectation right now is that donald trump will be in d. C. In person and have to travel to the courthouse for this appearance, and, look, federal agencies and local Law Enforcement have been prepa
Bolton. Later, trumps trial judge, tanya chutkan, what we know about the sentences shes already given other january 6th defendants. And ukraine, a remarkable rescue. A ukrainian soldier saved with the help of a drone, which delivered medical supplies and water. Good evening. Tomorrow the former president of the United States will make his second appearance in a Federal Court as an alleged felon. The first was in miami in the documents case. Until donald trump in the 234 years since George Washington has held the office, no holder of the office has had to do that once. Tomorrow, the 44th president since washington will enter a Federal Courthouse in washington, just a short walk from the capitol. Hell be asked by a federal magistrate to plead to four counts in an indictment. An effort that special counsel jack smith said yesterday was, quote, fuelled by lies. And criminal or not, there were plenty of those lies. The indictment identifies 21 separate lies the former president told, lies a
The former Vice President talking about trumps indictment now. January 6th was a tragedy. Ive spoken and written about it extensively. I have nothing to hide. By gods grace i believe we did our duty that day. Fulfilled the oath that id taken to the constitution and to the American People. The constitution is quite clear about the role of the Vice President in the counting of electoral votes. It essentially says the Vice President presides over a Joint Session Of Congress where the electoral votes that are certified by the states shall be opened and shall be counted. And irrespective of the indictment i want the American People to know that i had no right to overturn the election. And that on that day President Trump asked me to put him over the constitution but i chose the constitution. And i always will. And i really do believe that anyone who puts themself over the constitution should never be president of the United States. And anyone who asks themselves to put themselves over the c
Ongoing protests. The charges were approved by the same grand jury that indicted former President Trump and 18 others of rico charges. Well get an update from a Movement Lawyer and a stop cop city activist in atlanta. Then to ukraine. U. S. Secretary of state Antony Blinken has made a surprise visit after the Biden Administration said it will for the first time send munitions containing radioactive depleted uranium to ukraine. We will speak with a british journalist about his expose contamination fears after ukraine loses british tank. Finally, to the first Africa Climate summit in nairobi. We will speak to the canyon activist there. 28 canyon activist there. Over 450 organizers came together against the fossil fuel industry. Amy all that and more, coming up. Welcome to democracy now , democracynow. Org, the war and peace report. Im amy goodman. Enrique tarrio, the former leader of the farright proud boys, has been sentenced to 22 years in prison. It is the longest sentence term handed