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2 1 2 years after a mob of his supporters attacked the u. S. Capitol, donald j. Trump has been charged in the effort to overturn the election he lost which culminated in such violence to people, property and democracy that day. If you are just joining us, im here in new york alongside jake tapper In Washington and Kaitlin Collins outside the d. C. Federal courthouse where the former president will be arraigned thursday afternoon. Anderson, we just heard from the d. C. Metro police, the departmen...

Day i think the main thing is im probably going to have to find another route and it might be family or it might be trying to switch my schedule around at work which is going to be difficult. So many people are all for helping other countries, were helping ukraine a lot and helping other countries and helping immigrants come into our country. We need to help our own American Children and families like yours. Ashley, josephine, thank you so much for coming on. We appreciate it. Okay. The second h...

Im serious so much got a good to have you with us a u. S. President donald trump has arrived in south korea the second stop of his five country tour of asia his trip comes amid simmering tensions with north korea over its Nuclear Program trump has visited the main garrison of u. S. Troops stationed in the country and he is later due to hold talks with south korean president moves in the visit is being seen as an attempt to present a united front against pyongyang despite differences with south k...

Rachel Maddow takes a look at the days top political news stories. Their way to keep trump out of the trial. Abc news reports that prosecutors have been coaching their witnesses not to mention trumps name or even that manafort lives in trump tower. The judge in the case has warned that bringing up manaforts ties to trump could unduly influence jurors. There is at least one thing about this trial that is important to the relationship between Paul Manafort and donald trump. The first witness today...

Charges here. four criminal counts. obviously, they are conspiracy to defraud the united states, two counts related to obstruction of an official proceeding, and a charge under a law against conspiring to deprive people of civil rights. provided under federal law all the constitution. all of this is what came down today. also mentioned but not named are a six unindicted coconspirators. they are not named in the indictment, but cnn has been able to identify the five that you see there on the scre...

In fact, in the indictment itself, it doesnt allege do anything wrong. and the final ask mr. trump made to vice president pence was simply too costly voting. there is nothing inherently unconstitutional or illegal about that. in fact he had an opinion from avery will institutional scholar that said thats fine. that is legal. mr. trump is not a lawyer. hes a businessman. >> his own attorney general and officials said that was not fine, there were certainly illegal that he was asking. he was askin...

With president biden in terms of what he said during the election. that is what we dont criminalize political speech. political speech under the first amendment has an almost absolute protection. nobody gets to judge whether it is true or not, except the american people. and we do that in an election. we do that in an election. we do that in the case of a president by impeachment. but we dont indict people -- >> john, i got to stop you there. trump is not being for lying here. he is being and ho...

Pence did not have the right to do. to reject the. you mentioned the attorneys, you say john eastman, hes a coconspirator and this indictment. the indictment lists of people who told trump of his claims about election fraud werent true, including the vice president, senior justice department leaders, the director of national intelligence, cisa which of course in charge of making sure elections in the u. s. are secure. senior white house attorneys, campaign staffers, state literally jurors, and t...

Issues. and now his advocacy is being criminalized. >> those are secretaries of state who are making those changes in those states because of the pandemic that was happening. you talk about free speech. jack smith noted trumps right to free speech and to contest the election results. what he says, indoors and on, it is that when that didnt work, the defendant, your clients, prosecute unlawful remains of discounting votes and supporting the election results, and that is why he is being charged he...

Taken political speech and said, we are going to criminalize it. by the party that is in control against the party that is contesting the next election for the two individuals involved are going to be running for office. that is an incredible set of circumstances. >> john, if you believe you have a good defense here for your client, do you believe this trial should happen before the 2024 election? >> it should not interfere with the election. really, what the indictment has done is identify seve...