Good evening and thank you for being with us tonight for this special coverage.

He is of course innocent until proven guilty and he will and should mount a robust defense

against these charges and he should be acquitted.

If he didn't do what he is accused of, but if the allegations made by the Justice

Department in this indictment are proven, if the former president did what he is accused

of, history is going to ask a different question of this time than what we might have otherwise

been expecting.

If the allegations in this indictment are proven beyond a reasonable doubt and a jury

convicts him of these crimes, history is not going to ask, wow how did America get to

the point where they indicted a former president?

History instead is going to ask how did America get to the point where such a person could

be elected to the presidency of the United States.

Where actions such as these could be carried out from the Oval Office directed by a person

who was elected president by the American people along with his advisors.

This is a grave day and a serious one for our country.

Thank you for being with us here tonight.

We know you have every choice in the world, but we're happy to have you here on what will

go down in US history as a black letter bold faced date.

August 1st, 2023 is the date on which a former president and the leading presidential candidate

of the Republican Party was indicted in federal court accused of leading multiple criminal

conspiracies to try to hold power by force after he was voted out of office by the people.

In this special coverage tonight, we're going to talk about all of it, the charges that

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