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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 ....
He incited people, he prompted people to go up there. but in your view, is jack smith seeing this as too much of coming into clash with the first amendment, that he feels that just may be a path that he won t succeed along? that s the hard part because we know what cassidy hutchinson told the committee. what she said was the president knew the people in the audience were armed. he said, let them come in, they re not here to harm me. raises the question, who were they there to harm? then he said to those people, go to the capitol, i m coming with you, we re going to solve this thing. if that doesn t amount to insurrection, right, what does it amount to? you got to ask yourself, if it is okay to bring up the first amendment concerns with the defrauding the united states, why not raise the insurrection point, what is going on here? if he has a weak first amendment case, how does it not undermine his other case as well. in a conversation on january 1st, the then vice president mike p ....
Didn t think there was a constitutional basis for the vice president changing the election results, doing what trump was pressuring his vice president to do, and in response trump told pence, quote, you are too honest. how beneficial is that to prosecutors as they re trying to prove that trump knew all of this that it was lies? it is all of these things. it is not just what pence told him. it is what pence s counsel told the staff what his campaign officials told the president over and over again, you didn t win this election. there was no fraud. multiple state officials, republican state officials who supported and voted for donald trump told him there is no fraud in our states. he kept going out publicly saying there s fraud, talking about the pennsylvania voters, talking about the georgia voters, right? dead voters and the like. he knew at least based on what he was told by republican officials and all the states and the vice president, he didn t have a leg to stand on, the vice ....
reporter: so, clearly no signs of his supporters banning him, at least on capitol hill. in fact, marjorie taylor greene said i will still vote for trump, even if he is in jail. just quite a remarkable statement. we should point out that it has been a slightly different story in the senate. we have seen a much more muted response from republicans. still not yet heard from senate gop leader mitch mcconnell, he s been silent throughout trump s indictments and legal troubles and we re not expecting that to change this time around. mel, thank you for the very latest. pretty, i don t know, pretty eye opening to hear what republicans are saying up there. jim? up next on cnn news central, special counsel jack smith who prosecuted in his career republicans and democrats is facing fierce attacks from the right. we re going to have more on the man behind the indictment. and later, a significant sentencing decision in the pittsburgh synagogue shooting trial. we re going to explain the jury ....
Be presented. i could see this trial lasting nine months or a year. but it is going to take mr. trump is entitled to a defense. the government had three years to investigate this. and now they want to rush this to trial in the middle of a political season. what does that tell you? reporter: and, jim, another key argument that john lauro laid out during that interview as well, donald trump was protected by the first amendment and by free speech when he was pedaling the claims that the 2020 election was stolen f you look at that 45-page indictment from jack smith and his team, they note that donald trump knew that the election was stolen but continued to spew those lies anyway. they also note that, yes, donald trump did have the right, like any other american, to challenge the election results, but he did not have the right, according to special counsel jack smith, to try and engage in a conspiracy to defraud the united states, ....