2 1 2 years after a mob of his supporters attacked the u. S. Capitol, donald j. Trump has been charged in the effort to overturn the election he lost which culminated in such violence to people, property and democracy that day. If you are just joining us, im here in new york alongside jake tapper In Washington and Kaitlin Collins outside the d. C. Federal courthouse where the former president will be arraigned thursday afternoon. Anderson, we just heard from the d. C. Metro police, the department saying they are working with federal Law Enforcement in preparation for the arraignment on thursday. As for Special Counsel jack smith from whom we last heard after the first of now two federal indictments in the documents case, he spoke again briefly this evening. Take a listen. The attack on our Nations Capital on january 6th, 2021 was an unprecedented assault on the seat of american democracy. Its described in the indictment, it was fueled by lies. Lies by the defendant, targeted at obstruc
Day i think the main thing is im probably going to have to find another route and it might be family or it might be trying to switch my schedule around at work which is going to be difficult. So many people are all for helping other countries, were helping ukraine a lot and helping other countries and helping immigrants come into our country. We need to help our own American Children and families like yours. Ashley, josephine, thank you so much for coming on. We appreciate it. Okay. The second hour of fox friends starts right now. [jazzy upbeat] lawrence now, you may think this is new orleans, but its not. Suspects timmie valley. You are listening to the Brass Animals perform live from the Reagan National library ahead of tonights debate. I love the band. Ainsley i love the name, the Brass Animals. Lawrence, if they gave you a show and you called it lawrence and the animals. Lawrence i love that. Ainsley how fun is that any time you include animals reminds me of the muppets. Brian reme
Im serious so much got a good to have you with us a u. S. President donald trump has arrived in south korea the second stop of his five country tour of asia his trip comes amid simmering tensions with north korea over its Nuclear Program trump has visited the main garrison of u. S. Troops stationed in the country and he is later due to hold talks with south korean president moves in the visit is being seen as an attempt to present a united front against pyongyang despite differences with south korean leaders over how to do so. Well north korea and the u. S. Have exchanged ever stronger threats and insults but what would a potential conflict really look like. In this Propaganda Film War breaks out on the korean peninsula. North korean troops annihilate u. S. Forces though the actual outcome of any new conflict here would likely be different
theres little doubt that the carnage would be great. And then theres the norths growing Nuclear Arsenal relations between the two countries reached
Rachel Maddow takes a look at the days top political news stories. Their way to keep trump out of the trial. Abc news reports that prosecutors have been coaching their witnesses not to mention trumps name or even that manafort lives in trump tower. The judge in the case has warned that bringing up manaforts ties to trump could unduly influence jurors. There is at least one thing about this trial that is important to the relationship between Paul Manafort and donald trump. The first witness today was tad devine, chief strategist for Bernie Sanders an president ial campaign who worked with manafort on political campaigns in ukraine. The prosecution called him as their first witness to have him describe how much work manafort was doing in ukraine and how lucrative it was. Before we came on the air, we got a rush version of the transcript from todays hearing. Im not going to be able to act out a whole conversation but heres one little bit of the prosecutors Opening Statement worth hear. Th
afraid of offending trump s base of addressing any of the facts and findings this evidence that are laid out here. not at all. no, because i think on the one hand, a lot of it is not defensible. they all know just like we do that these were lies, but the republican base actually does believe a lot of this stuff. you even heard it from trump s lawyer tonight, john lauro, sort of sugar coating it and saying, well, you know, trump had doubts about whether the state legislatures had the authority to do that. it talks about trump making up things out of whole cloth talking about dead voters, you know, in georgia and then being explicitly told that that was not true. his own campaign staff saying that this was all made up stuff. the other things that is striking to me about this indictment and i think the other thing that republicans who are running for president don t want to acknowledge is that if any one of these things had succeeded, we would be having an entirely different conversatio