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Them to violate the constitution. he said the president asked him to violate the constitution which is another way of saying that he asked him to write the law. >> he never said, no, thats wrong, thats wrong. a technical violation of the constitution is not a violation of criminal law. thats just plain wrong. >> barb, what you make of that? >> thats just plain wrong. what he just said. importantly, this is all going to be in a court of law where the judge will instruct a jury on the law, and the...

American president engaged in a criminal conspiracy from the oval office to subvert the will of the people. of course, like any criminal defendant, trump is innocent of proven guilty there will. be a trial, and his legal team will announce the defense. no matter how downs, this is the one historians will be talking about 100 years from now. trump is now facing four criminal counts in this case, including conspiracy to defraud the united states, obstruction of an official proceeding, and conspira...

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America towards the clifton. >> yesterday in washington d.c., for the first time ever, a former president of the united states was arraigned for his alleged efforts to subvert an american democracy. just a few blocks away from where he took the oath of office and from where his supporters carried out an unprecedented act of violence just a few years later, donald trump pleaded not guilty, to four felony charges stemming from his actions after the 2020 election. the charges, conspiracy to defraud...

Conspiracy to defraud the united states, conspiracy to obstruct an official proceeding, obstruction of an attempt to -- on truct an official proceeding, and conspiracy of rights. you have issues with the fourth charge. >> i do think that the fourth charge is going to be difficult. but they basically charge the civil rights crime, in this indictment, and in this count, this statute was used, really what i call the kkk statute, and it was made to prevent people from intimidating folks who have had...

Going back more than a century involving the ku klux klan that he was reaching. that got a counternarrative going, john, that, well, he must be having something else that hes ready to debut in a trial or what have you. what do you make of that? >> as you and i discussed when we watched the arraignment a few days ago, this is such a momentous part of history. this is, i think, the most serious criminal trial ever brought in the history of our country, accusing a former president of trying to stop...

Administration of justice, former president donald trump fired off a threat within the last 24 hours. if you go after me, i am coming after you. now, this threat is the definition of political speech. as part of the prosecutions case against trump. if you hours go, the trial judge gave trumps negotiate deadline of five pm on monday, to respond to a protective order proposal submitted by the special counsel. jack smith cited trumps threat, he also trump -- saying that it could have a quote, chill...

Thats always the problem you have when someone goes down an unprecedented route like jack smith has here. paul: kyle, theres a lot of ugly facts here that we knew about involving trump, how he tried to pressure mike pence, he and his co-conspirators, now-called, tried to get states to send in an alternative slate of electors for the electoral college, but the key question, is it criminal behavior to do that? >> right, exactly. and dan was talking about the fraud against the united states statute...

Votes. the second thing they did is they made the fake electors that united states before with fraudulent signings and fraudulent transmissions. the third thing they did, they went to the vice president said, trump, trump went to vice president pence. he said, pence. you should change. you have the power. pence said, absolutely not. ironically after the indictment pence has doubled down on that. before saying which got what you are saying, jasmine, he leveraged the violence. he did incite violen...

Former President Donald Trump said it was "a very sad day for America" after he pleaded not guilty to charges of conspiracy and obstruction related to his alleged attempts to overturn the results of the 2020 election.