Glimpse into the defenses lawyers will make on the stand. Here is jonna lauro on meet the press. The defense is quite simple. Donald trump, president trump, believed in his heart of hearts that he had won that election. And as any american citizen, he had a right to speak out under the First Amendment. He had a right to petition governments around the country, state governments. Based on his grievances that Election Irregularities had occurred. He had every right to speak about the important issues that were taking place after the election. A technical violation of the constitution is not a violation of criminal law. That is just plain wrong. Except a technical violation of the constitution by definition is still a violation of the constitution. The constitution, in six different places, opposes insurrection and our constitution is designed to stop people from trying to overthrow elections, and trying to overthrow the government. Moments later, democratic congressman jamie raskin respo
Lawyers will make on the stand. Here is jonna lauro on meet the press. The defense is quite simple. Donald trump, president trump, believed in his heart of hearts that he had won that election. And as any american citizen, he had a right to speak out under the First Amendment. He had a right to petition governments around the country, state governments. Based on his grievances that Election Irregularities had occurred. He had every right to speak about the important issues that were taking place after the election. A technical violation of the constitution is not a violation of criminal law. That is just plain wrong. Except a technical violation of the constitution by definition is still a violation of the constitution. The constitution, in six different places, opposes insurrection and our constitution is designed to stop people from trying to overthrow elections, and trying to overthrow the government. Moments later, democratic congressman jamie raskin responded to lauro by making th
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Court for His Civil Fraud Trial, former President Donald Trump is heading back to the Campaign Trail, but not before going after the judge who put him under a gag order. Well take you live to the c courthouse. And Police Searching for suspects after a Mass Shooting during home come Week Celebrations at a university. Well have the latest on that search. Were following these latest developing stories and many more all coming in here to cnn news central. And now there are two, minutes ago House Majority leader Steve Scalise made it official announcing that he will run to replace Kevin Mccarthy as House Speaker. It comes just hours after hardline conservative jim jordan publicly said he will run. Both need to win over more moderate members of their conference. And theres no time to waste, a floor vote on the speaker is expected next week in then the house is essentially paralyzed with a deadline looming in november. Melanie za nnona joins us on capitol hill. What do we know about Steve Sca
eviction from its offices because it can t make rent. in arizona, the gop have less than $50,000 in cash reserves as of march 31st. four years ago, it had close to $770,000. officials partly blamed this catastrophic collapse on the rise of insurgent pro trump activists taking on leadership posts like the election denying michigan chair christina karami. other states, like arizona, are going broke because republicans there spent a whopping $300,000 challenging the 2020 election results with nothing to show for. joining me now is ben willard, the democratic party chair for the state of wisconsin. ben, it is good to see you again. thanks for coming back on the show. just a few years ago, your state of wisconsin was fully read. we all remember scott bakr was the governor. donald trump won in 2016. what has the gop done in your state to crash so hard? how much does it have to do with this crash, with this