nixon days, some of the gray hairs in the republican party finally came to the president and said sir you must go. you ve got to go for the good of the country and the party. here, nixon was disgraced. donald trump presents himself as a victim and a martyr. true, that is a wonderful message that all explained to some day over lunch. it is a long conversation to straightened out the gray hairs, they did do something of that nature but not quite as history has it. the remedy here has got to the understanding that trump has triggered, it is okay for the darkest personalities on the political horizon to take charge. authoritarian personalities have long existed in the republican and conservative ranks before they were hiding under rocks or embarrassed to come out and be who they thought they should be. i think that they have got to get back under rocks, and the only people who can do that is
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to try to steal an election, and that indictment is written so that anyone can read it, you don t have to be a lawyer, and you can see the facts for yourself. rico is to charge racketeering, to charge conspiracy. there are more than a dozen other defendants with donald, trump including people who are close with the white house, but also people who were helping him with this plot, including the fake electors. do you see, in a legal strategy now, kenneth chesebro one of the attorneys as artwork assert his trial that he betrayed himself, that he tried quickly. that is one way to get the prosecutor in a case that does not involve donald trump to put out many of the facts in court. another one of vendors, and you might not know many of these names, but joe sean still is the gentleman s name. he is charged as a fake elector. they knew that trump had lost and they knew that mike pence was going to certify the actual electors and so they had these fake slates of electors. he s trying to move
these 19? i mean, the term is joint issue. it means that everybody has to sign on the indictment formally and that is the defendant enters a plea of not guilty and the prosecutor recognizes that. in terms of the guilty plea for everybody, i m not sure. i think it is going to be a polarizing case. there is a lot of danger that people on both sides folks that hate donald trump, folks that love don t trump and think that he can do no wrong, are going to end up on any of the forgeries that are going to be picked in this case. jury selection class at voter state university, because there is election is the most important part of any trial and here it is going to be huge because you are thinking that even one mistake by the state, one mistake by the federal government, it is a hung jury and you have got to try that long trial all over again, potentially lasting years. i m curious as to what their questions are going to be like and, at the state level, you re talking about the actual pros
the surrender of the former president coming a little more than a year since the january 6th committing first began. you will recall that committees later referred trump to the justice department, analyst for criminal charges. joining me now is the chief investigative counsel to that committee, timothy heaphy. thank you for your time tonight, it was the committee that laid out many of the building blocks that the special counsel has used for his charges, about that are essential to these charges on which the former president was processed today in georgia. when you saw the mugshot tonight the former president making sad history as the first former president processed in a mugshot. is there some satisfaction in that, i know it s a sad day for america, but some satisfaction that the committee s work is an underpinning of some of this? yeah, john, it s a good question. you know, i feel the same way tonight that i used to feel as a federal prosecutor upon convictions. it is justice, it i
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