Jack Smith Tailors New Jan. 6 Indictment To Fit Immunity Ruling
Laura Coates Live
CNN
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🗓️ 28 August 2024
⏱️ 44 minutes
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| 0:00.0 | Well tonight Jack Smith looks to Pierce Donald Trump's in Unity Shield. |
| 0:06.6 | I'll take you inside his brand new indictment tonight. |
| 0:09.4 | Plus Harrison Wall's pick CNN for their very first interview will it quiet the critics or |
| 0:15.6 | fuel them and with RFK junior exiting the race could another third party candidate |
| 0:21.1 | be giving cause for concern. |
| 0:23.3 | All that tonight, I'm Laura Coates Live. |
| 0:25.6 | Well, a wise woman once said, when you get tired, learn to rest, but don't you quit. |
| 0:39.1 | Looks like for the last, what, eight weeks, Jack Smith has been resting, certainly not quitting. |
| 0:45.7 | If anyone thought he would give up on his January 6th case, well, they got another thing coming. |
| 0:51.0 | He has been trying to figure out how to move forward in his federal |
| 0:54.0 | election case against a former president, the one accusing him of plotting to |
| 0:57.8 | overturn the 2020 election. And the Supreme Court's immunity ruling, it dealt him quite a blow when it ruled that Trump had broad immunity for what are known as official acts. |
| 1:08.0 | They didn't define what that meant, of course. |
| 1:10.0 | But for him to proceed, he'd have to make his case basically immunity proof. |
| 1:16.2 | Well tonight Smith finally to build what that might look like a slim down case if you will and when he handed it over to a new grand jury |
| 1:25.2 | they reached the same conclusion as before. Now I want to stress that point to you |
| 1:30.3 | this was a second set of Americans called for grand jury duty who heard the DOJ out and returned the same four counts. |
| 1:39.0 | Conspiracy to defraud the United States. Conspiracy to obstruct an official proceeding. Obstruction of an attempt |
| 1:45.5 | to obstruct an official proceeding as well, and conspiracy against rights. Now none of those |
| 1:50.1 | counts were changed. Not one. What did change, importantly, are the allegations |
| 1:55.7 | that Smith makes in trying to prove those counts. Gen Alpha, we need a before and after. |
| 2:01.2 | Here's what that would look like. |
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