Election was stolen from trump, and Senator Ron Johnson of wisconsin whom trump praised for getting to the bottom of things. The notes pointing to trumps perceived Coup Accomplices are now in the hands of those members peers in the House Oversight and reform committee, which is investigating trumps efforts to overturn his defeat. The extraordinary new window into conversations with top Justice Department officials and the expresident represent fresh Smoking Gun Evidence of Trumps Abuse of power and frantic efforts to cling to power at all costs. The notes illuminate a well worn theme of the trump presidency, the expresident s imperviousness to facts. The times writes this, the officials also told Trump The Justice Department had no evidence to support a lawsuit regarding the Election Results. We are not in a position based on the evidence, they said. We can only act on the actual evidence developed. Trump then cass at this gat cas. He said people are angry blaming the doj for inaction.
capitol, despite voting to acquit. president trump is still liable for everything he did while he was in office, didn t get away with anything, yet. and president joe biden who is eager to turn the page from trump s impeachment is now weighing in. we have a team of reporters and analysts following the very latest for you right now. the fallout of trump s acquittal is growing so here s what else we re digging into this hour. we ll look at what the vote to acquit means for the future of the republican party. and what are the steps democrats are pursuing to hold trump accountable, if any. whether trump s legacy will be the violent extremism that exploded under his administration. and whether trump s legal battles are just getting started, including a criminal probe in georgia. we begin with the impeachment vote and mariana sotomayor is on capitol hill with new reaction. in the meantime carol lee is covering president biden. mariana, are democrats satisfied with the
you re live in the cnn newsroom. good evening. four indictments in in roughly four months until republicans first nominating contest. donald trump continues to dominate his rivals in the gop primary. new wall street journal poll finds trump support among republican voters growing to a whopping 59%. former president expanding his lead over his next closest competitor, ron desantis, to a commanding 46 points. joining us now to talk about this, vanity fair special correspondent, molly, and ana navarro. guys, great to see you. thanks so much. ana, is it all but inevitable that trump will be the republican nominee next year? it s certainly looking that way. you know, i think it shouldn t be surprising. part of me want to be surprised but i m not that he has this hold on the republican party. and that the indictments that his legal problems that all the things happening around him mean nothing. because the loyalists have complete and absolute allegiance to this man. it s tw
do we have any idea what they might be doing? well, logic tells us if they re working on behalf of their biggest and most important client, donald trump, they were on the same floor as the d.a. s office, likely working out the details of what we have seen already from some of these other defendants, bond consent agreements, which is essentially getting the process of, you know, fulton county, it s not an arraignment, but post booking release details worked out. in the case of the other folks whose consent agreements have been posted, it s something like a monetary bond, an agreement not to break the law elsewhere or to talk to or try to intimidate witnesses. the same kinds of things we saw in the special counsel case in washington and in florida. likely with donald trump, as we have seen in all of these other cases, there are other elements to this. there are secret service elements, protections, how he goes to the courthouse or county jail in fulton county. all of these ne