The family of travis king is speaking out. The american soldier who ran across the dmz into north korea and still being detained there. His family is pushing back on statements that he defected to the north korean army. This is cnn news central. Keep your eyes on this courthouse in washington d. C. Today. It now becomes the center of the legal and political universe really in some sense hours from now, donald trump will come here and once he steps inside, he will again be under arrest. Under arrest for the third time in four months as he faces a new round of criminal charges. At this courthouse, donald trump is expected to be fingerprinted. Not expected to have a mug shot taken, he is to face a Magistrate Judge and all indications hell plead not guilty to all four counts. New details on how his lawyers plan to defend him coming in, planning to argue the lies about the 2020 election are protected speech under the First Amendment and theyre trying to prove that trump new the claims. But
as is the other evidence we ve collected. mike pence hasn t been forthcoming publically presumely he told investigators what he knows. this is the key evidence and mark meadows as well. the first amendment defense at large, what are the boundaries of it? what are they playing here? it s powerful, the supreme court is respectful of the first amendment the kind of thing that gets raised occasionally in criminal cases, somebody committing securities fraud or something like that, i was expressing my opinion and as a general matter it s not a powerful defense if you ve been breaking the law. the indictment said he had the right to say publicly what he believe ed. he had the right to lie publically even. but these are actions. so this is the kind of defense, in part, that may be aimed for appealing the case, appealing a conviction rather than actually winning in the courtroom.
number of das in variety parts of new york that have asked for this information. regular people can t hear about pressing charges but regular people can t bring charges. the government had to bring charges. this complaint would give rise to potentially an investigation and without witnessing, government cannot bring charges. the fact that someone is willing to testify presumely against mr. k cuomo in criminal context suggests it might move. there s nothing criminally pending spa we re aware of. what would the burden of proof be? what s the threshold to accomplish criminal behavior? if they were ever to be charged for a grand jury or what s called information, then it could go to a jury and beyond a reasonable doubt. very high standard there. we also don t know what could be charged. groping, physical groping can be an assault. it can carry jail time. we have this other pending question of impeachment. we saw this twice with the last
constitute a crime under today s federal law. it s porpimportant that you t that out. for donald trump to be impeached he does not have to have necessarily been proved to have committed a crime that s in that criminal code. right? but the people around donald trump have used that criminal code as ways to protect him. i ll give you one example that hopefully you can explain to us. william barr who is the attorney general of the united states, presumely our attorney, the public s attorney, apparently the department of justice used the fact that they couldn t find a campaign finance violation in what the ambassador was describing there, they re saying you want this money, we want this investigation that helps our 2020 campaign. but because they decided that s not a campaign finance violation, they then brush aside the whistle blower s complaint, even though it appears that within the cia they were saying no, there is a crime here, that they did see a crime that they
any information or intelligence on americans. but did anyone know what rudy was doing? was donald trump directing rudy? i guess trump could pardon him. but he doesn t have of the protections. just because he was playing a presidential envoy doesn t make him one. and that s why it s extremely important that the democrats who ask these questions do it very quickly and very pointedly. i think it s very smart that adam schiff will be at the forefront. presumely to some kind of outside counsel who gets to this. but the democrats haven t exactly been great about getting answers in these settings either. i ve talked to former senior national security officials who say that the extraordinary turn of fortune for mike pompeo may end up being the most stunning sort of carnage. trump gave his inaugural address about human carnage. this might sweep up mike pompeo. rudy showing these texts whether they re legitimate or