Sexual abuse former president. But also the most important trial of our life times. The United States of america versus donald trump. Tomorrow, trump will be arraigned in a washington, d. C. Courtroom. Hes expected to plead not guilty to four criminal counts, conspiracy to defraud the United States, conspiracy to obstruct, conspiracy to violate the right to vote and obstruction of an official proceeding. This latest indictment of the former president handed down by special counsel jack smith is an incredibly detailed and damning account of an attempt to subvert democracy and forcibly overturn the 2020 election. It pulls from firsthand accounts including people very close to the president and sets up a potential block buster trial with star witnesses, including his former Vice President and countless maga senators and members of the and members of congress. The core of the case is broken down into three parts. The first part details how trump was fully aware that he lost the election. F
plus a look ahead at what is expected to be one of the key political storylines of 2023. trump versus desantis. more on that ahead. we are going to start with some breaking news. kevin mccarthy set to hold a call with a gop conference in about an hour s time. he s facing some tough numbers in his fight for the house speaker. abc s ali roth joins me now from capitol hill. ali, what more can you tell us about your scoop. just about an hour from now, this big gop meeting. yeah, lindsay, my colleague haley talbot and i getting the scoop about an hour ago that really explains what kevin mccarthy is doing in these last two days before that make-or-break moment, the speaker s election on tuesday. sources are telling us that in less than an hour at 4 pm he s going to hold this call with members of the house gop caucus, really trying to solidify every last gop vote, every ounce of support he can be for that critical vote on tuesday. the last thing he wants to happen is for, is to no
in closing arguments that this was a political trial, trying to further a political agenda? i think that s going to be the message we hear from donald trump and his attorneys in all the cases. while i think that some of the cases that he s facing tend to be a little more political in nature than others, i think most of them are substantive and have evidence to back them up and warrant the charges. this case in particular it was interesting to hear him say before he entered the courtroom that it was unconstitutional and they had no right. this is straight out of his victim playbook where he just acts like the victim, acts like he should face no accountability for any of his actions. it s going to be, i think, the message we see moving forward from him and his campaign on the campaign trail. sarah, we re getting new details of this new interview that first lady jill biden did with msnbc.
she spoke very attacking republicans investigating and leading an investigation into her son hunter biden. also, as part of the conversation, jill biden took aim at donald trump for characterizing jailed january 6th rioters as hostages as we heard him do and heard other republicans parrot that talking point. here s what jill biden said about calling them hostages. that makes me want to be in the fight even more because we have to win. we must win, she said in this interview, we can t let go of our democracy. from everything experienced, the stand that you took given what you saw on january 6th and around the white house, what do you think of hearing jill biden speak out in this way, and also hearing donald trump calling them hostages over and over again? i resigned three years ago on
constitutional. it s interference. it s political interference. it s something that shouldn t be allowed. donald trump repeating what we ve heard often as he s going in making legal misstatements and not telling the truth on the legal case in front of him, saying he has no rights. clearly he does. he s going through the trial process as it s been going on for 11 weeks. at the same time we are seeing a collision truly of the campaign trail and the courtroom, which at this point for donald trump are one and the same. let s get some perspective on this and reaction to what we re seeing. sarah matthews is joining me now. sarah, the legal fight is essentially the entire campaign strategy for donald trump right now. we re seeing that once again come into focus today. what s your reaction to what you have heard today and the fact that his attorney right out of the gate tried to make the case