His place in the history book of impeachment was already secure. But this solidifies his unique low point in american history. Now, trumps charge with incitement to insurrection stemming on the capitol hill a month ago. Tonight in a interview with cbs news, speaking out about trumps behavior, if he would vote for impeachment if he were still in the senate . I ran like hell to defeat him, i felt he was unfit to be president. I watched when everyone else watched when the crew invaded the congress. I will let the senate make the decision. Should former President Trump still receive Intelligence Briefings . I think not. Why not. Because of his eradict behavior. What is your worst fear if he continues to get the Intelligence Briefings . I would rather not speculate outloud, i just think that theres no need for him to have the intelligence briefing. What value is giving him an intelligence briefing. What impact does he have at all other than the fact that he may slip and say something. Tonig
Large interest most significant federal indictment of donald trump ever. This is in a way that well document more significantly than the legal headaches he already has. This will be tonight the first time any former president has been indicted by the Justice Department for trying to steal an election. Now, i mentioned, if you have been walking our breaking coverage, we have been going through what is a voluminous filing. Jack smith found six other coconspirators that are named in the filing. It alleges that trump spread lies, that there had been outcome determinant fraud, fraud that would have swung the election back to him, and these claims were false. And trump knew they were false. Ill put on the screen what were watching for. Want to share what were learning. S this a day we have been trying to hew closely to what we know and dont know. In the last several moments, the most heads up youll get from an agency that jack smith will approach the podium you see here. Some of the local Be
thing. the pentagon briefing has begun, let s go there. the pentagon for a variety of reasons our normal call-in options will not be available, for those that have had to call in, we apologize. we will get it up as quickly as possible for reporting purposes and answer questions from the dod press desk. moving forward we ll look at ways to improve briefing operations and expect regular press briefings will resume in the press briefing room in middle to late may. we appreciate your patience and extend our thanks to department of air force for using airmen s hall for temporary briefing home. secretary austin returned yesterday from a productive series of meetings in the republic of korea in the philippines, the secretary and his counterpart reaffirmed measures for deterrence on the korean peninsula, and pledge to closely cooperate regarding assets in the future, as well as further expand and bolster level and scale of combined exercises and training. in the philippines, secret
ago. special counsel smith has a toop of independence had his role, but he does work within the attorney general s justice department. now we re told any moment, certainly within the hour according to the guidance we have, the attorney general will come out and speak. we will be bringing that to viewer as soon as we get eyes on the attorney general. we ll go as early as we can, same way we did with the special counsel on a night where we re dealing with the indictment of donald trump. david, go ahead. i was going to go on andrew s point. paragraph 99 where the president comes out and says he and the vice president are in total agreement, knowing that they re not, knowing that his position is wrong, it is not just another lie, but it also really speaks to his wrecklessness and dangerous necessary of his lies. looking at that, i want to read for neal something else i want to get into. we re going through this piece by piece. it is a lengthy speaking
jennifer, fantastic to have you on, thank you very much. we ll bring you back. we ll bring in our first guest, but i want to ask you, lauren, you are new to us. should we be hearing from the president now? we will not get much from the pentagon and that fireside chat, hold my hand stuff, sometimes it is good when there is a big thing in the sky. lauren: yes, we should hear from the president and i m sure reporters will continue to demand to hear from the president and as jimmy was saying, it is not subtle. is this evidence of increased chinese wrecklessness. do we have bigger eye toward taiwan and really worried about that impending conflict? that is the big question, what is the administration thinking when releasing limitted, careful information? is it just about safety or are they looking forward to five or