Serious lawyer he has the sole distinction of being a political hack. The attack on our nations capitol on january 6th, 2021, was unprecedented assault on the seat of american democracy. Since the attack on our capitol, the department of justice has remained committed to ensuring accountability for those criminally responsible for what happened that day. This case has brought consistent with that commitment. Laura ha. Well, by listening to this guy, you would think that trump himself was smashing flew the glass at the capitol that day. That was one of the most item go jake presentations i have ever seen in a high profile Criminal Case anyone who listened to that. Any normal person alleged donalp carried out the capitol riot. In order to get a conviction, he will have to use material, that, in my view, is clearly protected by the First Amendment. Laura now, this case should never survive a motion to dismiss, a motion for summary judgment. But will judge tonya shut kin, an obama judge, e
As you are looking live there, Special Counsel jack smith will make remarks at a News Conference from the Justice Department shortly. We will bring those to you here live and we have a full show of reaction to all of the developments and the specifics on the charges for that Griff Jenkins has the details outside the courthouse. Griff good evening. Donald trump has been ordered to appear in court behind me for First Court Appearance and possible arraignment. That is the news breaking at this moment. It will be on thursday at 4 00 p. M. Now Special Counsel jack smith has laid these allegations out in the form of Speaking Indictment where prosecutors lay out a detailed time narrative events surrounding the january 6th, 2021 capitol ri ri. How they dealt with his refusal to accept the results of the 2020 president ial election. The indictment alleges, bret, that trump falsely claimed the election was stolen, that he pressured State Officials to nullify Voting Results and sought to interfer
they know they can get the indictment and then they can pursue the case and get the objective that they have in place i mean, this thing is not just weak, but there are problems when, you know, i agree with what you said, laura, this is a motion to dismiss, which is rare in a criminal case. laura: right. they didn t present any of the evidence that might have been exculpatory to the grand jury; instead, they ramrodded this through. i can t wait to see what happens to them in court. it might be at the appellate level. laura: yeah. well, tim, can you speak to that for a moment that a motion to dismiss in this case because to survive a motion to dismiss, what does this prosecutor have to have established in that indictment? well, he has to establish that he has evidence of every single element of that crime. and so. laura: right. who knows what they presented to that grand jury. the big problem is that prosecutors they don t have to present everything to the grand jury. if you
reputation around the world? xi has got to be laughing tonight. projection when they talk about donald trump republicans shredding our norms. that s exactly what joe biden and the democrats have been doing for the last two and a half years, in particular with the department of justice turning it in many instances into the enforcement arm of the democratic party of the progressive left in america another worrying example of that again, you don t have to agree with anything the president said or did but you can recognize that it s the same kind of first amendment protected activities in which democrats engaged in after every election this century when a republican was elected president. laura bush lawyer do you have any doubt, senator, that if trump went away tomorrow and just decides i m done with politics. he is not going to do that but let s say he did, and another challenger got close to beating biden, maybe it s desantis. do you have any doubt that this
we reaction to this case. tried to provide you balanced analysis and what comes next but the biggest thing is we don t know it s a crazy year. we h have got you covered, fair, balanced and still unafraid. the ingraham angle, which you don t want to miss, happens now. laura: i m laura inimram and is the ingraham angle from washington tonight. we start with a fox news alert. laura: i read through this so-called january 6th charging document indicting donald trump on four counts, two counts of obstruction, two counts of conspiracy this is a complete embarrassment. at this point they might as well hang a banner over that main entrance to the department of justice building tonight covering the credo with biden 2024. now, if the democrats special counsel jack smith was ever a