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Cbss nikole killion got a rare look at the draft of the historic speech. >> i have a dream. >> before there was a dream, there was a draft. >> this was the first draft of the speech that later became "i have a dream." >> reporter: entitled "normalcy never again," it did not include the word dream according to vicki crawford, who oversees the morehouse college king collection at the woodruff library. >> we are inside the vault. >> where cbs news was granted rare access to kings personal papers an...

Of freedom of speech and false statements as they apply to this indictment. >> i think one issue is who is the false statement made to? there are a number of circumstances in which a president of the united states can make statements on twitter that dont just go out into the ether, but are received from political actors, elected officials, and in that context it can be a false statement for purposes of the georgia election code, or the georgia criminal code and thats where the two intersect and ...

And, you know, i think theyre going to try and go a little bit broader than that to really just attack the underlying criminal intent and, you know, really going into what his knowledge is. the fact he was told there was fraud, whether by attorneys or investigators or by other people, it is a bit broader than just simply on advice of counsel defense the way i see it. of course, this case is kind of interesting because the attorneys that he would assert advice of counsel with are there as his co-...

>> january 6th has become the democrat partys excuse to justify an unprecedented assault on american civil rights and liberties, appalling persian accuse of mitt call prisoners. another thing well do and so manys. people have been asking about it, if i run and i win, we will treat those people from january 6th fairly. we will treat them fairly. and if it requires pardons, we will give them pardons because they are being treated so unfairly. >> so right after the attack on the u.s. capitol by his...

We must send a clear message, not with mercy, but with justice. legal consequences must be swift and firm. do you know why he wanted that crossed out? >> i dont know. >> and they use a force -- they did not represent him, or his political views, in any form or fashion. >> they also crossed out, i want to be very clear, you do not represent me, you do not represent our movement. do you know why he crossed that language out of the statement? >> i dont know. >> all right, so, lets actually just tak...

People from january six fairly. we will treat them fairly. and, if it requires pardon, we will give them pardons. because, they are being treated so unfairly. >> so, right after the attack on the u.s. capitol by his supporters, theres this draft speech written for him to give the next day. and, he only gives it to try to avert himself of being forcibly removed from office by the cabinet invoking the 25th amendment. and the death of that speech says, you dont represent, you dont represent our mom...

On american civil rights and liberties, persecution of political prisoners. another thing i would do if somebody asked me, if i run and if i win, we will treat those people from january 6th fairly. we will treat them fairly. and if it requires pardons, we will give them pardons. because they are being treated so unfairly. >> so right after the attack on the u.s. capitol by his supporters, there is this draft speech written by him to give the next day and he only gives it to try to avert himself ...

That had to be left on the rutting room floor. this new deposition footage focuses on the rose garden speech that trump gave january 7th. we knew that he struggled with that speech, he struggled to condemn the violence. and we are now learning that trump actually scratched off a number of key lines from that initial draft speech. take a listen to what else hes willing to say and not say the day after the riots. >> in my view, he needed to express very clearly that the people who committed violen...

Crossing out key lines in a draft speech including legal consequences must be swift and firm. he crossed that out. i want it to be very clear, you do not represent me, he crossed that out. he crossed out the rioters belong in jail. now, mark, you were there. you were there with the vice president when people were chanting to hang him and talking about killing him. you worked with trump for years. why do you think he took these words out? >> well, erin, i think that on that day, certainly there w...

Voting machines after losing the 2020 election. this found in a draft of an executive order obtained by "politico." the never-issued order from trump instructs the military to collect voting machines and deliver them to the director of national intelligence for, quote, assessment. "politico" reports the document is among 700 pages from the trump white house turned over to the 1/6 committee by the national archives, including a draft speech titled "remarks on national healing." also emerging this...