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Tonight on 360, the former president chooses to be arraigned in person in washington as the governments case in his defense take shape. We will look ahead to tomorrow s Court Appearance with former Trump National security advisor john bolton. Later, trumps trial judge, Tanya Chutkan, what we know about her history with former president. And desantis is that she has already given other january 6th defendants. And in, ukraine a remarkable rescue. Ukrainian soldiers safe with the help of a drone, w...

Good morning, everyone. Its wednesday, august 2nd. A historic morning in u. S. Former President Trump is due in Court Tomorrow after a federal grand jury indicted him on four counts. This morning, city and federal Law Enforcement agencies are gearing up for that appearance. Also new this morning, a sense of trumps defense. His attorney tells cnn his clint is protected fully by the First Amendment. He was acting on the advice of counsel. We just heard from rudy ju giuliani. New details about the ...

Bolton. Later, trumps trial judge, tanya chutkan, what we know about the sentences shes already given other january 6th defendants. And ukraine, a remarkable rescue. A ukrainian soldier saved with the help of a drone, which delivered medical supplies and water. Good evening. Tomorrow the former president of the United States will make his second appearance in a Federal Court as an alleged felon. The first was in miami in the documents case. Until donald trump in the 234 years since George Washin...

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Of first amendment defense. do you think there is such a defense to be had here? >> no. you know, the first amendment does not apply to conspiracies to violate the law. and smith tries to show in the indictment itself that hes not going after freedom of speech. so, i think that will fail. i think the problem is in the proof of intent beyond a reasonable doubt. and smith, in fact, makes the point -- i dont know if he intended to do it, but he makes it in paragraph 54 of the indictment, where he t...

May declare that in the election case in the january 6th case, they are clearly gonna make some sort of first amendment defense. do you think there is such a defense to be had here? no, you know? the first amendment does not apply to conspiracies to violate the law. and smith tries to show in the indictment itself that he is not going after freedom of speech. so i think that that will fail. i think the problem is in the proof of intent beyond a reasonable doubt. and smith in fact makes a point, ...

Electoral college so this isnt just about a couple of comments that donald trump made at a rally or rudy giulianis claims. >> thank you for that reporting. well see you in a little bit. lets bring back in our experts. jack smith knew that was going to be the defense counsels argument, thats why he gets to page 2, the defendant has every right to speak publicly about the election, even to claim falsely there had been fraud. >> its kind of rare to anticipate a defense like that. >> the first thing...

Election. and undermine the peaceful transfer of power. >> an indictment was unsealed charging donald j. trump for conspiring to defraud the united states, disenfrom shiez voters. >> reporter: federal prosecutors write, the defendant spread lies that there had been outcome determine native fraud and that he won. these claims were false. this morning, were getting our first sense of trumps defense. >> focusing on the fact that what we have now is an administration that has criminalized the free s...

Speech as an american citizen, never mind whether he was president or not it could be anybody, it could be a homeless person, you dont get to violate peoples first amendment rights no matter who you are. this isnt the first time acted like an unethical lawyer. should be the last. >> your reaction? >> very fiery rude j giuliani, i think were going to hear the first amendment defense from donald trumps team and also from several of these unindicted co-con co-conspirators. theyre not just taking is...