Our Special Coverage continues now on the arrest and arraignment of donald trump. Im wolf blitzer alongside laura coates. Truly an extraordinary and unprecedented day right here in washington, d. C. I mean the former president at one point was in the custody of the very government he allegedly tried to overthrow, just a mere step or two from the center of democracy of supporters even attacked on january 6th in the culmination of the plot to overture election. Onald j. Trump arres arraigned for the third time in four months on four federal charges including conspiracy to defraud the United States, conspiracy to obstruct an official proceeding, conspiracy against rights. The next hearing now scheduled for august 28th when the judge intends to set a trial date. And donald trump was standing up in court today, and he actually pleaded not guilty to all four of those criminal charges. And before boarding his private plane to return to new jersey, he was railing against the indictment and try
Make, that is about the First Amendment. Hes allowed to give a political speech, and allowed to say wrong things in the speech. If you are republican running against trump and saying this is bad, the argument has to be that it is First Amendment protected for you to say gosh i probably lost georgia unfairly by 12,000 votes. You cannot call the Secretary Of State and say find me 12,000 votes. Those are different types of speech, and itll be interesting to see if any of the republicans in the primary actually make that argument. Wolf, putting all the legal stuff aside, you and i have covered a lot of these campaigns. I cannot believe that Vivek Ramaswamy is not trying to seize upon donald trump being arraigned in Federal Court to take advantage for his campaign. He sounded as though he is auditioning for Vice President or a member of the trump cabinet. What kind of bizarre, Twilight Zone world are we in right now . Other campaigns, in the past, Campaign Rivals will be seizing on Somethin
president trump gave no order to deploy the national guard that day and he made no effort to work with the department of justice to coordinate and deploy law enforcement assets. now, the committee heard from capitol police officer caroline edwards who was injured during the insurrection. they also played a video of mostly never before seen footage showing some of the most violent scenes on the day. we need back-up! [ bleep ]. we are going to give prior warning. declaring it a riot. trying to breach and get boo the capitol. be advised capitol police will start moving resources inside. we re coming in if you don t bring her out. you back up. more now from cnn s ryan nobles. the january 6th select committee has now made its case to the american people, showing a bit of what they ve been working on behind closed doors for more than 11 months. laying out their thesis that former president donald trump is responsible for a plan that was hatched right around novemb
he said to aides how can you believe i lost to this guy. and he asked mike pence on new year s day to reject the certification. and he basically said you re too honest. that s a person who has a guilty mind and knows that he lost the election. by the way, pence is now marketing on that as part of his memorabilia paraphernalia campaigns he s doing. but you know how the right hand and left hand are not always on the same body when it comes to having a united front? you heard from the lawyer. i want you now to listen to what trump s daughter-in-law said moments ago. let me clear it up for anyone who has questions out there, donald trump believed on the november 3rd of 2020 he won that election, he still continues to believe that. so anyone who says they re lies wants to take note of that. you mean the attorney or
that are giving you advice and telling you what they believe is true. they may not agree with mike pence, he might not agree with his lawyers, but it doesn t mean that there were not other people advising him exactly the opposite. the president has a, right as every one of us, due to listen to several opinions and make their decision. and now here is larry trump, listen to this. let me just cleared out for anybody who has any questions out, there trump oblivion on november 3rd of 2020 that he won that election. he is believed every day since. he still continues to do that, so trying to say otherwise maybe wants to take note of that. all right, what did you think? with respect to the multiple opinions, that donald trump received, the majority of the credible attorneys, his own white house counsel, his attorney general, and a