Donald trump. The Breaking News this hour we are following a defiant former president of the United States on the way to his new Jersey Golf Club right now after being arrested and arraigned on four serious, very serious criminal charges, stemming from his alleged efforts to subvert the 2020 president ial election in the United States. Trump proclaiming his innocence and accusing the Special Counsel of leading a political persecution. Wolf, of course, this is trumps third indictment in the past four months. It is the most serious set of charges he ever faced. As he did in new york and miami, the former president pleaded not guilty to all four counts today, Conspiracy To T Defraud the u. S. , conspiracy to obstruct proceed, obstruction of a proceeding and conspiracy against rights. I want to go our senior justice Correspondent Evan Perez from outside the federal courthouse here in washington where the former president made his initial appearance this afternoon. Evan, walk us through wha
come out, not just the narrative. fir narrative is intense. we don t know who is testifying against him. is mark meadows a cooperating witness? when you have people like the committee where you have actually folks tell us this is a partisan thing, yeah, it s only republicans teaching. kind of is partisan. that might change things a little bit. i will be back at 8:00 p.m. eastern for a 360 and special coverage of today s historic arraignment. we continue in the situation room with wolf blitzer and erin burnett. this is cnn breaking news. welcome to our viewers here in the united states and around the world. i m wolf blitzer in washington along with erin burnett in new york. this is a special edition of the situation room. the january 6th indictment of