Our special breaking News Coverage continues now of the third, he has a third, criminal indictment of former President Donald Trump. Im laura coates. Remember. Not the news tonight, still stunning, even though people expect an indictment to come right now it is here. We have believed it sink in. The 45th president indicted by a grand jury and jack smiths investigation into efforts to overturn the 2020 election. And its not lost on anyone that, while trump is facing charges over the last election, he is, of course, in the middle of his reelection campaign, flora. This is the third time, the third time that donald trump has been criminally indicted informants at this point . Special counsel jack smith charged him in the classified documents probe in june, and the Manhattan Grand Jury charge of the former president for Business Fraud back in march and just listen to what Special Counsel jack smith had to say tonight. The attack on our nations capital, on january six 2021, was an unprecede
Donald trump is expected to head to washington, d. C. Where he will make his first appearance in Federal Court in connection with the january 6 riot and attempts to overthrow the 2020 election. How the nations capitol is preparing for his Possibility Appearance down the road from the site of the insurrection. And then who are trumps six coconspirators listed in the indictment and not named and how do they fit into trumps world . Cnn has identified five of them. Who is number six . Plus, she was Speaker Of The House when the mob of maga rioters stormed the capitol. We have got to get to proceed congresswoman nancy pelosi, democrat of california will join me life with her first interview since the january 6 indictment. Welcome to the lead. Im jake tapper. Just about 24 hours from right now donald trump is expected to appear in Federal Court here in washington, d. C. Where he will face unprecedented criminal charges for his unprecedented alleged attempts to overthrow the 2020 election or
thought about it. and isn t it the thought that counts? the wall street journal has just reported that the doj made that decision for two reasons one, because biden s attorneys were being good old boys and girls and, quote: cooperating and, two, they wanted to avoid complicating the investigation. now, why does biden get to search his own classified records while donald trump gets his house raided by the feds? legal scholar jonathan turley makes the most sense of it saying, quote: the president has a host of people who regularly handle classified material so why use the lawyers? the answer appears the same as in the case of hillary clinton s email control. hillary clinton can erase 33,000 emails and joe biden can move these documents around. it s what the democrats do. they control what gets out to the public. and it s why we re only finding out about this now three months after the first batch of documents were found in joe biden s chinese funded think tank. now, if this h
Out protesters from its campus. Well show you how it happened and bring you the latest on demonstrations across the nation. Plus, israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu has more defiant comments on a possible invasion of Southern Gaza ahead of his meeting today with americas topay diplomat. Plus well get expert legal analysis on everything that happened in court yesterday in Donald Trumps ongoing hush money trial. Good morning and welcome to way too early on thisgo wednesday, may 1st. Im jonathan lemire. Thanks for starting your day with us. And well begin this morning with the nypd clearing a Columbia University building that wasng seized by protesters. Dozens of officers arrived on campus late last nightwearing riot gear. They used a ramp to get inside hamilton hall, the main Academic Building which was occupied by protesters overnight on monday. Video shows special police units entering the building through a second story window. Officers say about 40 people were arrested inside.
Faith attacks. these whataboutisms. they re trying to say well, the two tiered system of justice. biden s doj in of course the hunter biden matter, which they latch onto each and every day is their go-to talking point. instead of confronting donald trump, the man they are trying to beat in these primaries. they re simply not doing it. yeah, exactly. not even because they are criticizing his behavior. apparently they decided that with voters, but even to make the electability argument. they re not even doing that to say, hey, he can t win. and to our earlier conversation, yeah. they re those close to president biden who think that if any other republican emerges as the gop nominee, the president probably can t win georgia this time around. georgia is not quite there yet for democrats. but if it is trump, they like their chances. coming up on morning joe weekend, senate majority leader chuck schumer talks bidenomics. we need t-shirts that say morning joe: weekend. i like that,