20 20 election. No surprise that former president coming out swinging against the charges and the Special Counsel. Welcome to our brandnew hour of americas newsroom. I am dana perino. Whats my name again . Dana murray. Whats my name . Build something. I cant remember. Its after royalty. As william and his George Barrett i was going to say charles. Here we go again now. That third indictment of trump under president bidens justice department. Burned former president charged with 4 Felony Counts in a sweeping 45page indictment. Critics complain it is a crusade against free speech. My concerns me as many of the people celebrating their second indictment are just simply dismissing the implications for free speech. Those are quite dire and real. This is criminalizing disinformation. But the Department Of Justice is saying is that we recognize that politicians can save most things but just not trump because he was told they were false. Begins anew brad baer has got The Big Picture in a momen
forward to pressure vice president pence anyway. the committee outlining how close to imminent mortal danger the vice president was on january 6th, 2021. our investigation found that immediately after the president s 2:24 p.m. tweet, the crowds both outside the capitol and inside the capitol surged. mike pence has betrayed the united states of america! mike pence has betrayed this president and he has betrayed the people of the united states and we will never, ever forget! i m telling you, if pence came, we re going to drag the [ bleep ] through the streets. real simple, pence betrayed us, which apparently everybody knew he was going to, and the president mentioned it, like five times when he talked, you can go back and watch the president s video. make no mistake about the fact that the vice president s life was in danger. a recent court filing by the department of justice explains that confidential informant from the proud boys told the fbi the proud boys would ha
states. if you are working with them, defined substitute electors. it is not against the law or not? i don t know the answer. try to persuade the vp that he had the power to refuse that counts on the electoral votes. you may think all this stuff is shady stuff. no republican candidates and republicans are going to argue that does any of this amount to a crime? that is i guess when we are going to find out. exactly. i agree. it is really sweeping and what they are trying to do. a lot of legal experts say it seems like something else hasn t been dropped. we saw in the document states that there was this superseding indictment that came later that added charges. is it possible that the six coconspirators listed there, they are not charged. but they are making an effort to negotiate with them. for that they possibly testify against the former president. they drop others superseding
bag stolen stolen in his mind or not. interestingly, he also said one of that event strategies is going to use the power of the subpoena that he will have two relitigate that 2020 election. whether he will be allowed to do that whether the judge will give leeway to do that, held at the events out is going to be fascinating to see. we were talking this morning. we talk a lot. it will not be tired of hearing that. i don t have this printed out for the audience have to bear with us. indictment said mr. trump broke the law when he acted on the following lies. we will take that one of time for those i conclude to hunt fraud. by that attorney was arguing last night is that trump thought there was fraud. look into that. is that against the law? that is what a jury has to decide. work with conspirators to stand up substitute electors in seven
i think it is very important. it is not essential to the committee, but clearly even if she were not married to a supreme court justice, she would very much involved in the communications with state officials, trying to get them to name substitute electors who were not actually chosen by the people, that s important criminal activity. she was very much in touch with eastman and other people in the white house, coordinating an effort to overturn the election. what she has to say is important. she says she has no problem with it, she s going to she welcomes the chance to clear things up. well, a lot of people have said they welcome the chance, but then when it comes to the details that there is some kind of hiccup, it seems to me in this case she really ought to be there. professor laurence tribe, thank you for joining us with your expertise this morning.