We are grateful you join us tonight. Happy to. Thank you very much. It has been quite a here of course, only the first of many as we learn today that there are many more court dates to come. The news continues, i want to turn things over right now to cnn prime time with wolf blitzer and laura coats. Our Special Coverage continues now on the arrest and arraignment of donald trump. Im wolf blitzer along laura coates, truly an extraordinary and unprecedented day right here in washington d. C. 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 or three from the center of democracy with his supporters attacking on january six and a combination of a plot to overturn the election. Donald j trump arrested and arraigned for the third time in four months, on for federal charges including conspiracy to defraud the United States. Conspiracy to obstruct an official proceeding and conspiracy against rights. The next He
people nega s well. we could go on in the public integrity section as well. you have concerns it will be a loss of faith among the american people with respect to how they perceive our institutions. if they do not even endeavor to pursue justice. my view is that nobody is above the law. but nobody is below the law either. and even if you just take each of these indictments there are deeply suspect circumstances. facts, omissions of fact and law. and my view is that there is a dual standard of justice in the united states now. i ve also said as part of my campaign. i ve pledged for example to also pardon julian assange. this is an individual who sits in foreign exile. even as the person who leaked the documents to julian assange, chelsea manning had her sentence commuted by president obama because she is a member of a favored political class. she is transgender. again, it is two standards of justice based on your political beliefs. now you have one for biden,