donald trump committing a crime. donald trump's criminal defense lawyer tonight added information to special prosecutor jack smith's 42-page description of donald trump's crimes. the conversation that john lauro first described appear on pace 34 of the indictment -- as a criminal conspiracy. and the version of that conversation that donald trump 's criminal defense lawyer delivery tonight is every bit as criminal as the version that appears in the indictment. on page 34 of the indictment it says, on january 4th, the defendant, donald trump, held a meeting with coconspirator john eastman. vice president, the vice presidents chief of staff, and the vice president's counsel for the purpose of convincing the vice president, based on the defendant, donald trump's knowingly false claims of election fraud, that the vice president should reject or send to the states biden's legitimate electoral votes rather than count them. that criminal conduct described in that sentence was admitted tonight on television by donald trump's criminal defense lawyer. the indictment has more about that meeting. quote, during the meeting, as reflected in the vice presidents contemporaneous notes, the defendant, don

facing, and he thought that he was clever enough to quote donald trump saying something that was going to get donald trump off the hook. instead john lauro hooked donald trump in the same way the jack smith's indictment does. i have never seen a moment like this, with a criminal defense lawyer. never. it is inconceivable that john lauro could get this far into this case and somehow believe what john eastman says in writing, that he never believed, john eastman says he never believed, that it was legal for mike pence to pause the counting of electoral votes. john lauro had a completely competent and professional first day in court with donald trump. i read the transcript of it. he was flawless in the courtroom. and then he went on tv. and blew the case. john lauro, remember, is many thousands of times brighter than donald trump. but he still not smart enough to answer a fox performers easy questions about on trump. so manage a donald trump trying to answer questions in his own defense, on a witness stand, under oath, be cross-examined by jack smith's criminal trial team. john lauro trying to make sense of what donald trump was sayin

donald trump, for trying to overtime the results of the 2020 election. these election middling charges in addition to 3 other cases. the former president is facing john henry has the latest from atlanta. these charges include racketeering. one of several charges against donald trump and that is listed as a serious felony. all the rest are listed as felony. what that means is that this is a charge that carries a cent instead of up to 20 years in prison in here in georgia, there is a minimum sentence of 5 years in prison. so it was a very serious charge for a man who's trying to be elected president one time again, there were also as many as 18 other people who have faced indictment on this same list of documents. the west african regional block echo as has condemned the decision of michigan as many tribute as to prosecute the deposed president for treason that cooling yet another provocation. at least 26 nigerian soldiers have been killed in of ambush documation and mission that followed. an air force helicopter crash number village and nigel delta state. it was on his way to rescue soldiers that were wounded during a minute 3 opperation against gunma

specifically, the indictment brings charges against donald john trump, william lewis giuliani, john eastman, mark randall meadows, john --, jeffrey clark, jenna ellis, ray stallings smith the 3rd, robert david shealy, michael roman, david james schaefer, sean steel, stephen cliffguard lee, harrison william prescott floyd, --, sydney catherine, kathleen austin latham. scott hall and miss hampton, also known as emily "misty" ha yes. everyone in this indictment is charged with one count of violating georgia's racketeer influenced and corrupt organizations which is responsible for its caption content and accuracy. visit ncicap.org] --[indiscernible] for participation to accomplish the illegal goal of allowing donald trump to seize the presidential term of office on january 20, 2021. specifically the participants in association took various actions in georgia and elsewhere to block the counting of the vote of the presidential electors who were certified as the winners of georgia's 2020 general elections treated as you examine the indictment you will see acts that are identified as overt acts and

the indictment brings felony charges against donald john trump, prosecutors in georgia and died. donald trump was trying to over to him the 2020 presidential election results. the other ones are in jordan dispatch as they are in life. and those are coming.

president donald trump are charged undercount one, which is a violation of george's rico act, racketeering and corrupt organizations act. the introduction to the indictment says defendant donald john trump lost the united states presidential election held on november 3rd, 2020. one of the states he lost was georgia. trump and the other defendants charged in this indictment refused to accept that trump lost. and they knowingly and willfully joined a conspiracy to unlawfully change the outcome of the election in favor of trump. that conspiracy contained a common plan and purpose to commit to or more acts of racketeering activity in fulton county, georgia. elsewhere in the state of georgia and in other states. and then it describes the enterprise as follows. at all times, relevant to this count of the indictment, the defendants, not named defendants, unlawfully conspired in an effort to conduct and participate in a criminal enterprise in fulton county, georgia, and elsewhere. defendants donald john trump, rudolph giuliani, and then the big long list, unindicted coconspirators, individual one until individual 30, and others known or unknown to the grand jury, constituted a criminal or

specifically the indictment brings felony charges against donald john truong -- donald trump, rudy giuliani, don charles eastman, mark randall meadows, john, jeffrey clark, jenna lynn ellis, ray spalding smith the third, robert david, michael grauman, david james schaefer, shawn steel, stephen clifford lee, harrison william prescott boyd, sidney catherine powell, kathleen austin latham, scott graham hall, and misty hansen also known as emily misty hayes. every individual charged in the indictment is charged with one count of violating georgia racketeer influenced and corrupt organizations act through participation in a criminal enterprise in fulton county, georgia, and elsewhere, to accomplish the illegal goal of allowing donald j trump to seize the presidential term of office beginning on january 20, 2021. specifically the participants in association took various actions in georgia and elsewhere to block the counting of the vote of the presidential electors who were certified as the winners of georgia's 2020 general elections treated as you examine the indictment you will see acts that are

specifically the indictment brings felony charges against donald john truong -- donald trump, rudy giuliani, don charles eastman, mark randall meadows, john, jeffrey clark, jenna lynn ellis, ray spalding smith the third, robert david, michael grauman, david james schaefer, shawn steel, stephen clifford lee, harrison william prescott boyd, sidney catherine powell, kathleen austin latham, scott graham hall, and misty hansen also known as emily misty hayes. every individual charged in the indictment is charged with one count of violating georgia racketeer influenced and corrupt organizations act through participation in a criminal enterprise in fulton county, georgia, and elsewhere, to accomplish the illegal goal of allowing donald j trump to seize the presidential term of office beginning on january 20, 2021. specifically the participants in association took various actions in georgia and elsewhere to block the counting of the vote of the presidential electors who were certified as the winners of georgia's 2020 general elections treated as you examine the indictment you will see acts that are

we need every person in this room to show support for president donald john trump. if we do not do this, we will lose our country. i've got america -- a got a feeling with the people in iowa we are going to do just fine. thank you so much and god bless you. [applause] >> thank you. thank you. all right, come on up. one of the most popular people and i can say with the hispanics, think the most popular president and my friend. >> thank you. you have heard me before, but who is going to save our future? [cheering] >> who is going to save america? [cheering] >> for a guy who has lost the country, he will save america. january 15, we will do it again. thanks to donald trump. [cheering] >> so, this is a man who in the game between the republicans and democrats, baseball game hit the ball out of the park. and inside the park -- and outside the park home run. that is a hard thing to do for an average person but he is not an average person he is not average in human politics. he is respected like very few people, he has a big future. come on up. [cheering] >> thank you i am

specifically the indictment brings felony charges against donald john truong -- donald trump, rudy giuliani, don charles eastman, mark randall meadows, john, jeffrey clark, jenna lynn ellis, ray spalding smith the third, robert david, michael grauman, david james schaefer, shawn steel, stephen clifford lee, harrison william prescott boyd, sidney catherine powell, kathleen austin latham, scott graham hall, and misty hansen also known as emily misty hayes. every individual charged in the indictment is charged with one count of violating georgia racketeer influenced and corrupt organizations act through participation in a criminal enterprise in fulton county, georgia, and elsewhere, to accomplish the illegal goal of allowing donald j trump to seize the presidential term of office beginning on january 20, 2021. specifically the participants in association took various actions in georgia and elsewhere to block the counting of the vote of the presidential electors who were certified as the winners of georgia's 2020 general elections treated as you examine the indictment you will see acts that are

. >> do you think that if the jury finds donald trump guilty am i going to think that was legitimate? [laughter] no. >> donald john do solemnly swear. sarah: donald trump swore to defend the constitution of the united states but now he is accused of spreading lies and deceit in a desperate attempt to stay in power despite knowing he lost for 2020 election. the violent attack on january 6 -- prosecutors say as a result of his prolific lies as he deliberately created nationwide angst. [indiscernible] january 6, 2021 was an unprecedented assault in the seat of democracy. described in the indictment, it was fueled by lies. lies by the defendant targeted at obstructing the bedrock function of the u.s. government. and a process of collecting, counting, and certifying the results of the presidential election. sarah: easter trumps as he is being politically prosecuted and this is similar to the nazis in the 1930's. >> wadded the weight 2.5 years? because he is leading in the polls. they are worried he will dismantle the deep state and the union already. sarah: the parade in iowa always features gary leffler. he went to su

fulton county district attorney fani willis >> the indictment brings felony charges against donald john trump. >> reporter: he alleges mr. trump and 18 others unlawfully conspired in a criminal enterprise to try and overturn president biden's narrow win in georgia. >> rather than abide by georgia's legal process for election challenges, the defendants engaged in a criminal racketeering enterprise to overturn georgia's presidential election results >> reporter: cameras tracked nearly every step, as the indictment was brought to a judge and unsealed inside, 13 charges for mr. trump, including pressuring public officials to violate their oath, conspiracy to commit forgery, and making false statements the indictment references this phone call with georgia's republican secretary of state, brad raffensperger, where trump pressured the official to change the election outcome >> i just want to find 11,780 votes which is one more than we have. because we won the state. >> reporter: in a statement today, raffensperger did not mention trump by name, but wrote, "the most basic principles of a strong demo

violation -- >> you have to let me finish. >> so, neal katyal, constitutional expert, john lauro saying that donald trump could violate any law that he thinks is unconstitutional. >> so, my constitutional expertise tells me one thing, lawrence, which is that donald trump's lawyer, john lauro, should know there's only one person who can pull off five back to tv interviews and remain coherent, and that is andrew weissmann. [laughter] certainly he's not -- with respect to his claim about trump running a pause, first of all, most coup plotters don't like to say coup, they shroud their language and other things. and trump, as you say, he used the word pause. but when john lauro uses the word of, what he means is pausing in the counting of legitimate votes that you and i and all americans cast, those that have been ratified by the secretaries of state in every one of these state, solemn state processes, and 62 different courts have signed off on it. and where congress had set a solemn date, january 6th, to count all these votes. this wasn't like a pause. this was an attempt to throw out the popular vote and re

>> yes, jake, nine pm here in atlanta, or sitting outside the fulton county jail where donald john trump, 45th president of the united states was booked as inmate number p 01135809 here, less than an hour ago, he has departed. it is a place where he became the first former sitting president ever to have his photo taken for a mugshot. a mugshot that you can see here created during the booking process for his fourth felony booking. this fourth booking i should note, biden statistics on his booking record note suspiciously trumpian he is listed as six foot three, 215 pounds. blue eyes, hair given us and i'm quoting now from the booking ship blonder strawberry. i should note that we were told before he arrived here by our sources is that is going to be paperwork aides filled out not actually here at the chill. trump was in and out of the jail in about 20 minutes, arrested, booked, photographed and fingerprinted and then he was released under a bond agreement much like the could've pendants. he did not pay the full $2,000.01 of the highest bonds we've seen in this entire case. he is a bail bu

so, for example, on page 20, four act 22, on about the third day of december, 2020, donald john trumpaused -- tweeted from the account at real donald trump, quote, georgia hearings now on at oann, amazing! and quote. and then, the indictment goes on to say, this was an overt act in furtherance of the conspiracy. >> so that's the key phrase, throughout the whole thing, this was not just something that happened by coincidence, kind of reminds me of people on january 6th saying, you know, it was like a tourist walk in the park up there on january 6th. that this all just sort of fell together and wasn't planned. this says that all of these phone calls, these, i don't know how many phone calls donald trump made, could have been a, hundred who knows. they were overt, and they were all done with one thing in mind. -- >> okay, i hate to interrupt, but here is the district attorney, fani willis. and her team, they are walking into the room to speak. let's listen in. thank you for joining us. i am here with the prosecutors and investigators who have worked diligently on the investigation of cri

. >> specifically the indictment brings felony charges against donald john trump, rudolph william louisohn charles eastman, mark randall meadows. john chesebro. jeffrey clark. jenna lynn ellis. every individual charged in the indictment is charged with one count of violating georgia's racketeer influenced and corrupt organizations act through participation in a criminal enterprise in fulton county, georgia, and elsewhere, to accomplish the illegal goal of allowing donald j. trump to seize the presidential term of office beginning on january 20th '21. the defendants engaged in a criminal racketeering enterprise to overturn georgia's election result. subsequent to the indictment as is the normal process in georgia law, the grand jury issued arrest warrants for those charged. i'm giving the defendants the opportunity to voluntarily surrender no later than noon friday, the 25th day of august, 2023. >> to recap, former president donald trump has been indicted by a fulton county grand jury on 13 counts related to his alleged efforts to overturn his 2020 election loss to now president joe bide

specifically, the indictment brings felony charges against donald john trump. rudolf william lewis juliani. every individual charged in the indictment is charged with one account of violating george's record to your influenced and corrupt organizations act from participation in a criminal enterprise in fulton, county, georgia, and elsewhere. the west african original block eco was, has condemned the decision by these years military rulers, to prosecute the deposed president for treason they are holding it. yet another provocation, mohammad, the zoom was deposed and detained after the military seas power last month. as there's been a done battle in and around libya as capital. after the commander of a prominent group was detained in tripoli, what holmes was report to be captured by a rival faction that the cities and the to the airport flights have now been suspended out of the year for the governor of hawaii is expecting the number of fatalities from wild fires to increase from its current total of $99.00 search parties or combing devastated neighborhoods in molly investigators in the us s

it's a first for donald john trump. tonight's booking was a first jail visit for a former president. one thing that's not a first was the booking. it was his fourth. he is on his way back to b bedminister. back with the panel. we have seen the mug shot. i was looking up the official photo portraits of all the presidents. that's how most people view the presidents in history books. this is the picture that will probably stand the test of tim

do you think that if a dcjury finds donald trump guilty, am i going to think that that was legitimate? laughter no! i, donald johnmp, do solemnly swear... president trump swore to defend the constitution of the united states. but now he's accused of spreading lies and deceit, in a desperate attempt to stay in power, despite knowing he had lost the 2020 election. the police are now running back... the violent attack on january 6th was, say prosecutors, the result of his prolific lies, as he deliberately created nationwide mistrust and anger. the attack on our nation's capitol on january 6th 2021 was an unprecedented assault on the seat of american democracy. as described in the indictment, it was fuelled by lies. lies by the defendant, targeted at obstructing a bedrock function of the us government. the trump campaign claims he is being politically persecuted and says his treatment is reminiscent of nazi germany in the 1930s. why did they wait two and a half years? you know why? because he's leading in the polls! because they're afraid of him becoming president and dismantling the uniparty! dismantling the deep st

you have donald john trump, rudy giuliani, mark meadows, jeffrey clark, the list goes on and on. and i'm wondering why the long list. and why the number of charges. do you group them together? do you try them separately? what is the process here? and what can we look forward to in the days and months to come? >> this is a mess of a case. this will not hold up. this will not hold up under the law. if it is not reversed by the georgia courts. it will be reversed by the supreme court of the red states. the question is when, whether it is before the presidential election on november 7, 2024 or after but this is a shot and approached by a democratic prosecutor who is campaigning on taking out. the trip to the legal process. sheet set up a website. she is raising money off of this. this is a joke of a complaint. >> trace: back to you now, kash patel. is yours take same as it make? is it one of those things where you take, you got a lot of names on the list. what is the goal? do you put them together and you just told us earlier getting these cases in state, is a lot longer than in fede

specifically, the indictment brings felony charges against donald john trump. rudolf william lewis, juliani. every individual charged in the indictment is charged with one count, a violating georgia's record to your influenced and corrupt organizations. act from participation in a criminal enterprise in fulton, county, georgia, and elsewhere. 35 people have been killed in an explosion of the petrol station in southern russia. children, romano, the ac engine, and the last and the longest on region. free bone carrion, suspected of spying for russia, have been arrested and charged and brushing. they've been in custody since february . now they're charged with possessing fake identity documents. with what police cool and proper intention, warring factions, libya have reached a deal to end. the reason finding that tune that at least 20 people from minnesota on through how many databases the situation on the ground needs to be monitored. the late has gone back to us again after a prominent commander was captured by rival faction. the deal will see my palms, a handed over to a neutral party, funer

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, especially on the jersey to the specifically, the indictment brings felony charges against donald john trump, prosecutors in georgia and died. donald trump was trying to over to him, the 2020 presidential election results. the other ones are in jordan, this vouchers, they are a knife. and so coming, fighting in and around libya is caught block. a pop will come on to and typically is captured by rival forces. west african nations condemned the decision bondage as coolly it is to prosecute the house of president the freezer. uh, 9 to 9 dead and the while 5 on my we but the governor of hawaii is that number to grow. the prosecutors in the us state of georgia. i've charged for my president. donald trump was trying to overturn the results of the 2020 election that these election meddling charges. in addition to 3 of the cases, the former president is facing, is pulled my legal advisor, rudy giuliani was also charged. every individual charged in the indictment is charged with one account of violating george's record to your influenced and corrupt organizations act. a small participation in a crimi

the specifically, the indictment brings felony charges against donald john trump, george's district attorney and dives. donald trump was trying to overturn the 2020 presidential election results in the states. the other ones are in jordan, this is on just a run line from tow. so coming up west african nations condemned the decision binders as 2 leaders to prosecute the onset president for treason classes in and around. libby is capital frequently up to the detention of a powerful come on the hawaiians govern a warranty death toll from wild fires on. now we could rise from 9 to 9, a search teams scholar fantastic. the prosecutors in the us state of georgia. i've charged for my president, donald trump was trying to overturn the results of the 2020 election. these election meddling charges in addition to 3 other cases. the former president is facing his home, a legal advisor, rudy giuliani, was also charged. i'm here with the prosecutor and investigators who have worked diligently on the investigation of criminal attempts to interfere in the administration of georgia's 2020 presidential electio

>> yes, jake, nine pm here in atlanta, or sitting outside the fulton county jail where donald john trump, 45th president of the united states was booked as inmate number p 01135809 here, less than an hour ago, he has departed. it is a place where he became the first former sitting president ever to have his photo taken for a mugshot. a mugshot that you can see here created during the booking process for his fourth felony booking. this fourth booking i should note, biden statistics on his booking record note suspiciously trumpian he is listed as six foot three, 215 pounds. blue eyes, hair given us and i'm quoting now from the booking ship blonder strawberry. i should note that we were told before he arrived here by our sources is that is going to be

do you think that if a dcjury finds donald trump guilty, am i going to think that that was legitimate? laughter no! i, donald johnmnly swear... president trump swore to defend the constitution of the united states. but now he's accused of spreading lies and deceit, in a desperate attempt to stay in power, despite knowing he had lost the 2020 election. the police are now running back... the violent attack on january 6th was, say prosecutors, the result of his prolific lies, as he deliberately created nationwide mistrust and anger. the attack on our nation's capitol on january 6th 2021 was an unprecedented assault on the seat of american democracy. as described in the indictment, it was fuelled by lies. lies by the defendant, targeted at obstructing a bedrock function of the us government. the trump campaign claims he is being politically persecuted and says his treatment is reminiscent of nazi germany in the 1930s. why did they wait two and a half years? you know why? because he's leading in the polls! because they're afraid of him becoming president and dismantling the uniparty! dismantling the deep state! the in

do you think that if a dcjury finds donald trump guilty, am i going to think that that was legitimate? laughter. no. i donald johnsolemnly swear... president trump swore to defend the constitution of the united states. but now he's accused of spreading lies and deceit, in a desperate attempt to stay in power, despite knowing he had lost the 2020 election. the police are now running back... the violent attack on january 6th was, say prosecutors, a result of his prolific lies, as he deliberately created nationwide mistrust and anger. the attack on our nation's capital on january 6th 2021 was an unprecedented assault on the seat of american democracy. as described in the indictment, it was fuelled by lies. lies by the defendant, targeted at obstructing a bedrock function of the us government, a nation's process of collecting, counting and certifying the results of the presidential election. mr trump claims he is being politically persecuted and that his treatment is reminiscent of nazi germany in the 1930s. why did they wait two and a half years? you know why? because he's leading in the polls! because they're afrai

specifically the indictment brings felony charges against donald john trump. rudolph william louis giuliani. john charles eastman. mark randall metals. john cheese, bro. jeffrey. clark. jenna lyn ellis. raise stallings smith, the third. robert david chili. michael, a roman. david james shaffer. sean micah treasure steel. stephen cliff guard lee harris , unknown william prescott floyd. trivia on c. kuti. sydney, catherine powell. kathleen austin latham. scott graham hole. and misty hampton , also known as emily misty haze. every individual charged in the indictment is charged with one count of violating georgia's racketeer influenced and corrupt organizations act. through participation. in a criminal enterprise in fulton county, georgia. and elsewhere. to accomplish the illegal goal of allowing donald j. trump. to these the presidential term of office beginning on january 20th 21. specifically the participants in association took various actions in georgia. and elsewhere. to block the county of the votes of the presidential electors who were certified as the wi

together they amount to a criminal enterprise. >> the indictment brings felony charges against donald john trump, this morning the former president's attorneys are slamming the entire process as unconstitutional. former president trump himself is speaking out on social media, slamming this as a witch hunt, something the da strongly denies meanwhile, all 19 defendants have until next friday at noon to turn themselves in. hoda >> blayne alexander for us in atlanta. blayne, thank you. >>> now to the latest on the maui fires officials are warning that the death toll there could rise dramatically hundreds of people are still unaccounted for. and more questions are being raised this morning about the emergency response to this disaster nbc's miguel almaguer is covering it all for us miguel, good morning >> reporter: savannah, good morning. officials say 25% of the burn zone has been searched so far. they have already found nearly 100 victims. they still have hundreds of structures still to search mound. that death toll will continue to mount. amid the haunting, smoldering ruins of lahaina, the sense o

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charged, also not the 1st to pause for the booking for to the so called monk short defendant, donald john trump scaling the camera immortalized for history. the arrived early evening after the flight from his new jersey home, a police calling boy escorted him to the jail where he was fingerprinted photographed and released on a $200000.00 bill and charged with stuff to defenses in georgia. what is taking place here is a travesty of justice. we did nothing wrong. i did nothing wrong and everybody knows that i've never had such support as that goes with the other ones to what they're doing is election interference or try to interfere with an election, supporters and detractors, students site and the punishing georgia heat for several hours. we think hoping to be see, make me famous e, as an innocent man, to believe is the truth will come out some jail time. also, they are one of the drums, staunchest supporters and congress, margery taylor green, who criticized the prosecutor. funny willis, we're going to make sure that she, she believes as her job. what do you think you're going wrong? where doe

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