Oh, incredibly busy evening. Good morning to you, steve, ainsley and brian. And the former president is lashing out against the prosecution. He tells fox news digital, quote politically inspired indictment, which could have been brought close to three years ago, was tailored for placement right smack in the middle of my Political Campaign where i am leading all republicans. The former president and 18 others face various charges individually, including violation of oath by a public officer and filing spawls documents. All of the defendants have been charged with violating georgias racketeering law, which carries a maximum Prison Sentence of 20 years. In addition to the mr. Trump, the indicted defendants include his former white house Chief Of Staff mark meadows and some of his former attorneys, including Rudy Giuliani and sidney powell. The 98page indictment lists scott mccafe as the judge who will be presiding over the judge. Appointed by republican Governor Brian Kemp and joined the
says the president should call it quits after one term. let s go outfront. good evening, i m erin burnett, outfront tonight, mentally gone, detached from reality or just a liar. put star witness of today s january 6th committee hearing was trump s attorney general, bill bar who says in no uncertain terms that he made it clear to trump that the lies about a stolen election were exactly that lies. but according to barr, and many other trump aides who testified, trump didn t care. there was never an indication of interest in what the actual facts were. there was somewhat demoralized because i thought boy, if he really believes this stuff, he has, you know, lost contact with he s become detached from reality, if he really believes this stuff. and the so-called stuff being peddled by the president and his rag-tag team of lawyers, this is how they were described by the trump aides and officials who looked into them. they were idiotic claims, b bullshit, crazy, complet
onboard. we want to welcome our viewers here in the united states and around the world. i m wolf blitzer. you re in the situation room. we begin with a new evidence that then-president trump was repeatedly told by some top officials and closest advisers that the 2020 presidential election was not stolen. the january 6th investigators say he didn t care. our ryan nobles has all the top lines from today s hearing. it was a lie that began on election night. we were getting ready to win this election. frankly, we did win this election. donald trump s false claim that he won the 2020 election before all the votes were counted. a lie he continues to peddle. one that some of his closest advisers told the january 6th committee they didn t believe. like his attorney general. he s become detached from reality if he really believes this stuff. his campaign manager. i didn t think what was happening was necessarily honest or professional at that point in time. so yeah,
john berman here in for anderson. answer for that will depend on the answers for a string of other questions. can the committee in the coming weeks make the ambitious case it laid out last night. what will the justice department that already brought hundreds of charges in capital assault do with the information the select committee uncovered and will the hearings generate the kind of political census that might be needed before the attorney general decides to aim as high as the select committee is already suggesting might be necessary. president trump summoned the mob, assembled the mob and lit the flame of this attack. you will also hear about plots to commit seditious conspiracy on january 6th, a crime defined in our law as conspiring to overthrow, put down, or destroy by force, the government of the united states. or, to oppose by force, the authority there of. committee vice chair liz cheney said those words, plot to commit seditious conspiracy while putting the forme
revealed. right now, the nation s focus returns to the u.s. capitol as we await the most comprehensive account yet of crimes committed against the united states on this sacred ground. welcome to cnn special coverage of attack on democracy here on cnn. i m jake tapper, about an hour away from the rare prime time presentation on this committee and let s be clear, what will happen in the hearing room tonight is not just about the mob that stormed the capitol on january 6th, specifically, it is a month s long campaign and conspiracy to undermine democracy in america. it s about a president and those around him desperate to hold on to power at any cost, even if it meant destroying the american experiment. committee aides say we will hear and see interviews conducted with trump insiders for the first time. we expect that to possibly include members of the former president s family, as well as former senior administration and trump campaign officials. the hearing will showcase l