Taken root abroad and at home. We have to prove to the world and to our own people that democracy can still prevail against the challenges of our time and deliver for the needs of our people. We have to root out corruption that siphons off our strength, guard against those who would stoke hatred and division for political gain as phony populism. Well, to that note we have reporting tonight as well as remarkable congressional testimony on the domestic version of what the president warned against. He had another example of how thoroughly the former president tried to coopt and recruit the justice department to help him overturn the election that he lost. First, the summit seen as kaitlan collins traveling with the president joins us from geneva. What are we hearing about the format of the summit? i think, anderson, it will be pretty tightly scripted and if you talk to the white house of they ve kind of been running through the actual format of it. But the details weren t figured out unti
on july 30th, 2020 will be the most inaccurate and fraudulent election in history. again, just big words. with nothing to prove them. but he wanted to make his supporters believe that an election victory would be stolen from him and from them. this was to rile up his base, to make them angry. now, these were just a few of the many times president trump tweeted about this. he did it in speeches, rallies and television, too. this is going to be the greatest election disaster in history. because the only way we re gonna lose this election is if the election is rigged. remember that. the only way they can take this election away from us is if this is a rigged election. we re gonna win this election. with the rigged election, that s the only way we re going to lose. this will be one of the greatest, most fraudulent elections ever. this is clearly a man who refuses to accept the possibility or the reality in our democracy of losing an election. there are a dozen more tweets and
exposed in the depths of his political depraft at this and corrupt and criminal acts has been laid bare. not by radical leftists, or any of us in the media but by his inner most circle and the really, really committed ones as that. the trump officials who stayed on until the bitter last days of a bitter presidency tell us the riveting story of not one, not two but three criminal conspiracies that trump stands accused of by the united states government, in essence against the united states government. by the numbers jack smith has charged three criminal conspiracies, four criminal counts, named six unindicted co-conspirators and shined the light on one who was willing to overturn his election defeat. the indictment brought by jack smith against donald trump makes the coup plot he directed crystal clear for the world to see. here is how the justice department explains the first criminal count as the conspiracy to defraud the u.s. quote, the purpose of the conspiracy was to over
president at the united states. the only person who could possibly have told jack smith and the grand jury about those phone calls is mike pence. the january six committee invited mike pence to testify, but he refused. the january six committee did not bother to issue a statement to mike pence since they knew he would ignore it, just as some other elected republicans ignored subpoenas from the committee. mike pence could not ignore jack smith s subpoena. mike pence went to court in what he knew was a legally hopeless attempt to block jacks mitt subpoena. mike pence went to court to try to show trump s quarters, whose votes he wants in the presidential campaign to think that he was forced by judicial process to testify to jack smith s grand jury. mike pence did not just testify to jack smith s grand jury. he became the star witness, and he will be the start witness when the case that the united states of america versus donald j trump is presented to a trial jersey in washingto
words in the grand jury, in his testimony, what is obviously donald trump s vice president mike pence. that is the only way that those words could appear in quotation marks, on page 33 of today s indictment. your two on us. page 33 contains a description of, quote, several private phone calls in late december 2020 and early january between the president and vice president at the united states. the only person who could possibly have told jack smith and the grand jury about those phone calls is mike pence. the january six committee invited mike pence to testify, but he refused. the january six committee did not bother to issue a statement to mike pence since they knew he would ignore it, just as some other elected republicans ignored subpoenas from the committee. mike pence could not ignore jack smith s subpoena. mike pence went to court in what he knew was a legally hopeless attempt to block jacks mitt subpoena. mike pence went to court to try to show trump s quarters, whose