first of all, i won a lot in 2020. that s not and if you look at all the tapes, if you look at everything you happen to look at, you take a look at truth to vote where they have people stuffing the ballot boxes on tapes or mr. president wait a minute, let s go to recent. fbi, twitter, let s go to recent, 51 agents all corrupt stuff that s cheating on the election. you lost the 2020 election. donald trump simply can t let go of the big lie. that s just part of a wide ranging and sometimes contentious interview with fox news last night in which the former president offered a new reason for why he had boxes of classified material stashed away at his palm beach country club. we ll dig into all of that in just a moment. also ahead we re learning more about antony blinken s meeting yesterday with chinese president xi jinping including what the secretary of state says china is not ready to do. and plus a race against time in the atlantic ocean. as rescuers
he understands the role of attorney general is to serve and protect the people of the united states, and that is exactly what he will do and do better than anybody else can. jeff sessions was a disaster as attorney general. he s not qualified. he is not mentally qualified to be attorney general. we hope bill barr going to be as good as we think because he is a great gentleman, a great man. by the way, when bill barr, who is a coward. you know, bill barr was a coward. he didn t do what he was supposed to do. i fired him, and he has great chairman. for the joint chiefs of staff, general milley will serve as my top military adviser. i have absolute confidence he will fulfill his duty with the same brilliance and fortitude he has shown throughout his long and very distinguished career. he was, frankly, incompetent. the last one i d want to attack with as my leader would be milley. general kelly has been a star. he s done an incredible job thus far, respected by everybody. a g
first federal president to ever surrender to authorities. first former president ever be fingerprinted by authorities and first to go before a federal magistrate for arrest and arraignment and face years in prison. if convicted. and jake, of course after pleading not guilty to all counts, it seemed to be back to business as usual for trump. making a campaign style stop at a restaurant just moments after he left a courthouse. posting for photos with well-wishers. even had a group literally praying over him as he was there in the restaurant alongside his codefendant walt nauta. from there is back to bedminster for a fund-raiser. a fund-raiser in a speech. we are not carrying that speech live. in a moment, we will play a short portion of it one that gives you a look into his state of mind and how he is trying to frame his defense to his supporters. joined now by new york democratic congresswoman and house oversight committee member alexandra ocasio-cortez. thank you for being
live. in a moment we re going to play a short portion of it, one that gives you a look into his state of mind and how he is trying to frame his defense to his supporters. i m joined now by new york democratic congresswoman and house oversight committee member alexandria ocasio-cortez. thanks so much for being here. first of all, i just want to the little havana stop, that cafe, versailles cafe, one of the reasons we re told by his folks he was there is because the cuban american people know from political persecution. and i wondered how you might interpret that and what you think of that. well, you know, i think it s it makes it s not a surprise. during trump s remarks he was trying to somehow pin this as some great marxist conspiracy. but the fact of the matter remains that tn individual who r. tand u.s. national security secrets, nuclear weapons locations or, you know, nuclear site locations, sensitive materials, and put our nation at risk. and frankly this is beyon
has just happened tonight for the first time ever, former president of the united states has been indicted by a federal grand jury. donald john trump charged with seven counts in the classified documents case. this is a special edition from new york. i m anderson cooper. here in washington, i m kaitlan collins. in keeping with his reality tv roots, the former president preempted any justice department announcement of the charges against him in a series of posts on his social media network. in one just a few moments ago, he wrote, quote, i have been summoned to appear at the federal courthouse in miami on tuesday at 3:00 p.m. he goes on to say he never thought it would possible that such a thing like this could happen, then drifts into boasting about how he won all the votes in the presidential election, which we know is not true. he also wrote in all caps, quote, i am an innocent man. kaitlan joining us now. our senior justice department department correspondent evan pere