Judge in washington, d. C. As the nation and american democracy face a critical test. The former president is scheduled to be in court tomorrow. Last night federal prosecutors charged him with four separate counts in a sweeping indictment. The Special Counsel is alleging that trump was central in the plot to overturn the 2020 election and has charged him with conspiracy to defraud the United States, conspiracy to obstruct an official proceeding, obstruction of and attempting to obstruct an official proceeding, and conspiracy against rights. This historic indictment says that trump, quote, enlisted coconspirators to assist him in his criminal efforts. It repeatedly references six unindicted coconspirators. Cnn has been able to identify five of those six. Well be breaking down what roles they allegedly played in the effort to overturn joe bidens win coming up in a moment. Paula reid is with us now. What more do we know about the new charges that trump is facing . This is very much expect
eastman, they were sidney powell. so all of the unindicted co-conspirators that you all have been able to identify thus far, right, were the folks who were actually they were like the soldiers that were sent into the battleground states to actually implement the plan. one thing we should note, they call these crazy theories, but the crazy theories still held sway with a large percentage of the voting populous, republicans who still believe the election was stolen. there are three more co-conspirators, one jeffrey clark, alleged he attempted to use the department of justice to overturn the election. clark proposing sending letters to several states about identifying significant concerns about the vote. of course, those debunked as well. co-conspirator number five, kenneth chesbro, he sent rusy giuliani an email memo about this fake electors plot, central to the plan again to overturn the election. final co-conspirator as yet unnamed, this one a political