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Speaker 1: All right, guys, we are coming to you with some

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Speaker 1: major breaking news. Once again, former President Trump has been indicted.

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Speaker 1: This time, the charges have to do with January sixth

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Speaker 1: and fake elector's scheme. Special counsel Jack Smith announced the

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Speaker 1: charges in a press conference earlier.

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Speaker 2: Let's take a liston.

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Speaker 3: Today, an indictment was unsealed, charging Donald J. Trump with

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Speaker 3: conspiring to defraud the United States, conspiring to disenfranchise voters,

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Speaker 3: and conspiring and attempting to obstruct an official proceeding. The

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Speaker 3: indictment was issued by a grandeury of citizens here in

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Speaker 3: the District of Columbia, and it sets forth the crimes

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Speaker 3: charged in detail. I encourage everyone to read it in full.

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Speaker 3: The attack on our nation's capital on January sixth, twenty

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Speaker 3: twenty one, was an unprecedented assault on the seat of

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Speaker 3: American democracy. It's described in the indictment. It was fueled

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Speaker 3: by lies, lies by the defendant targeted at obstructing a

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Speaker 3: bedrock function of the US government, the nation's process of collecting, counting,

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Speaker 3: and certifying the results of the presidential election. The men

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Speaker 3: and women of law enforcement who defended the US capital

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Speaker 3: on January sixth are heroes. They are patriots, and they

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Speaker 3: are the very best of us. They did not just

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Speaker 3: defend a building or the people sheltering in it. They

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Speaker 3: are as a country and as a people. They defended

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Speaker 3: the very institutions and principles that define the United States.

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Speaker 3: Since the attack on our capital, the Department of Justice

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Speaker 3: has remained committed to ensuring accountability for those criminally responsible

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Speaker 3: for what happened that day. This case has brought consistent

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Speaker 3: with that commitment, investigation of other individuals continues. In this case,

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Speaker 3: my office will seek a speedy trial so that our

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Speaker 3: evidence can be tested in court and judged by a

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Speaker 3: jury of citizens. In the meantime, I must emphasize that

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Speaker 3: the indictment is only an allegation, and that the defendant

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Speaker 3: must be presumed innocent until proving guilty beyond a reasonable

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Speaker 3: doubt in a court of law. I would like to

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Speaker 3: thank the members of the Federal Bureau of Investigation who

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Speaker 3: as the many career prosecutors and law enforcement agents from

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Speaker 3: around the country who have worked on previous January sixth investigations.

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Speaker 3: These women and men are public servants of the very

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Speaker 3: highest order, and it is a privilege to work alongside them.

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Speaker 2: Okay, so you hear there.

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Speaker 1: The specific charges, those are the ones that were listed

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Speaker 1: in the document that Trump received announcing to him that

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Speaker 1: he was a target of this investigation. So no huge

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Speaker 1: surprises there, But there's a lot of detail to go

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Speaker 1: through in this indictment. The Special Council goes to great

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Speaker 1: lengths to assert not only did Trump assert false you know,

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Speaker 1: election lies, not only did he use those lies to

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Speaker 1: try to perpetetrate this fraud over across multiple states, involving

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Speaker 1: slates of fake electors and going all the way up

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Speaker 1: until January sixth, and pressuring Mike Pence to try to

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Speaker 1: overturn the results of the election. But they also go

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Speaker 1: into great detail trying to persuade what will ultimately be

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Speaker 1: you know, a jury in DC, that Trump knew that

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Speaker 1: those claims were false, and that he pushed forward.

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Speaker 2: With them anyway.

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Speaker 1: Just to give you a sense of you know, one

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Speaker 1: of the pieces of many pieces of evidence that they

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Speaker 1: pushed forward in spite of it. They're talking about his

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Speaker 1: claims with regard to Georgia, and they say, on November

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Speaker 1: six unindicted co conspirators, and we could talk more about that.

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Speaker 1: In a moment, filed a lawsuit against the governor of Georgia,

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Speaker 1: falsely alleging massive election fraud accomplished through the voting machine

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Speaker 1: the defendant retweeted a post promoting it. The defendant, the

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Speaker 1: he had discussed this far fetched public claims regarding the

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Speaker 1: voting machine company in private with advisors, the defendant had

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Speaker 1: conceded that they were unsupported and that co conspirators three

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Speaker 1: sounded quote crazy co conspirator threes. Georgia lawsuit was dismissed

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Speaker 1: on December seventh. There was a lot more that was

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Speaker 1: similar to this, of you know, the Attorney General told

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Speaker 4: Yeah, so it's interesting.

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Speaker 5: So, as you noted, in terms of the six co conspirators,

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Speaker 2: Could you can kind of who it is?

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Speaker 5: Yeah, yeah, So we definitely know that Rudy Giuliani is one.

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Speaker 5: We also know that John Eastman, he was the lawyer

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Speaker 5: lection certification, is one. We don't yet know if his

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Speaker 5: former chief of staff, Mark Meadows was listed in the indictment,

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Speaker 5: almost certainly likely to be one of those co conspirators

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Speaker 5: as well. Noteworthy in what Jack Smith said, Smith said

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Speaker 5: there crystal in the press conference was we this will

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Speaker 5: not stop our investigation into other individuals. So let's all

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Speaker 5: make sure we underlining that this could not be, you know,

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Speaker 5: the last indictment. I wanted to give everybody a sense

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Speaker 5: almost of the initial legal reaction in terms of what

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Speaker 5: the two sides are going to be bringing. So first

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Speaker 5: I think we should start with the defense. I guess,

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Speaker 5: as they do in a trial. I actually was watching

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Speaker 5: Fox News in order to prepare for this because they

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Speaker 5: had both Andy McCarthy and Jonathan Turley.

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Speaker 4: I guess they're whisperers right.

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Speaker 5: Really of the conservative legal movement.

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Speaker 4: And here's what they say.

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Speaker 5: McCarthy in particular takes issue with Smith's use of the

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Speaker 5: Civil Rights Act of eighteen sixty six in order to

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Speaker 5: prosecute Trump. He says of Jack Smith, quote, he has

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Speaker 5: extravagantly stretched these statues in order to try and capture

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Speaker 5: this behavior. That's because this is a proxy for what

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Speaker 5: should have been a political impeachment process. The second reaction

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Speaker 5: from Jonathan Turley, he says here, quote, when I take

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Speaker 5: red pen through this indictment that is protected by the

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Speaker 5: First Amendment, it reduces to a high coup aka.

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Speaker 4: Short poem for those are the uninitiated.

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Speaker 5: Many of the things that are being charged here are

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Speaker 5: protected speech. He follows up crystal by saying that this

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Speaker 5: is quote a disinformation indictment, but that is all part

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Speaker 5: that prosecutors must show that a defendant acted not only intentionally,

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Speaker 5: so that's I guess thelegal theory I want of the defense.

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Speaker 5: Let me get Brad Moss. So I asked him for

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Speaker 5: a quote. Here's what he says in response to the

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Speaker 5: you to rely upon knowingly false information to corruptly use

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Speaker 5: does not allow you to corruptly coordinate with state activists

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Speaker 4: The archivist and the VP.

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Speaker 5: It does not allow you to corruptly pressure the VP

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Speaker 5: to act unlawfully on January Spick six speech is not

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Speaker 5: what is that issue? It is conspiracy to command action.

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Speaker 5: That action was unlawful, and so I think those two

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Speaker 5: convincing this DC jury. We should note here that the

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Speaker 5: Apparently this is a and it's not just that she

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Speaker 5: seems clear, Crystal that given the outcome, is very likely,

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Speaker 5: just because some of the questions here are so fundamental,

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Speaker 5: but read this and just be like, oh, yeah, this

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Speaker 4: It was a couple of weeks ago. I don't know

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Speaker 5: Everything blends is you were like, you know, in the

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Speaker 5: eyes of most Americans, they don't give a shit about documents.

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Speaker 5: They're like, this is what they hate him for, like

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Speaker 5: It's damning politically, you know when you read the judgment

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Speaker 4: So that's everything that I'll say about us.

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Speaker 1: I think that's a great point that you are referring

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Speaker 1: audio tape of that. There are highly you know, really

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Speaker 1: to keep in mind the civil rights charge is different.

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Speaker 1: what was going on in all the conversations that we're having,

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Speaker 1: it sounds crazy, etc. And then you see the you know,

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Speaker 1: And you've got i think seven different states and all

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Speaker 1: of the machinations that were happening here. Yeah, it's pretty

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Speaker 1: compelling to speak to what Turley was saying, in particular about, Hey,

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