CNN host John Berman and reporter Shimon Prokupecz broke some news about fake electors architect and Trump attorney Kenneth Chesebro. It turns out that footage places him in the company of conspiracy theorist Alex Jones outside the Capitol on Jan. 6.
"We have exclusive new reporting on one of the alleged architects of the Trump 2020 fake electors plot, attorney Kenneth Chesebro, and where he was on Jan. 6," Berman said. "Remember, Chesebro was one of the unindicted co-conspirators in the federal election case. He's charged in the Georgia case."
"And now CNN has identified Chesebro on video following around conspiracy theorist Alex Jones on the grounds of the U.S. Capitol on Jan. 6," he continued. "With me now CNN senior crime and justice correspondent Shimon Prokopez on the video."
"On the video, big question, what was he doing there, right?" Prokupecz said. "Not only is he working behind the scenes, and now we know allegedly that he's the architect of this whole scheme to introduce fake electors, but now we see him actually on the grounds of the Capitol on Jan. 6."
"And what we've also discovered is that he is interviewed by the committee, the January 6th committee by members of Congress, and he talks about, they talk about this sort of idea about creating chaos and his whole idea behind that in terms of trying to slow down the voting, the process of certifying the election," he continued. "And so it's really interesting now to go back and find this video, which was all dug up by our K-file team, Andrew Kaczynski."
"The other thing really is, is that he was a lawyer for the Trump campaign working behind the scenes," he said. "And now we see him there on the grounds with Alex Jones, who was really the leading voice behind Stop the Steal there on the grounds of the Capitol."
"You know, we know he's facing a number of charges in Georgia, but he's also, we've identified him as an unindicted co-conspirator in the special counsel case out of Washington, D.C.," he continued. "He's expected to surrender by the end of next week in Georgia. We spoke to his attorney, he gave us a statement saying that they're going to allow this to sort of play out in court.
"They don't want to comment right now," he said. They want the legal process to play out and they declined to issue any sort of statement. But you know, this is certainly very concerning and troubling and raises a lot of questions about exactly what he was doing there that day."
"To be clear, we have no evidence he actually entered the building itself," Berman said.
"There's no evidence he was engaged in any kind of violence, that he went inside. This was all going on outside," Prokupecz clarified. "But he's videotaping; he's recording on his phone. You see him there recording Alex Jones. And why was he doing that?"
Investigators might want to have a word with Alex Jones. And why would an attorney for the outgoing President be protesting outside of the Capitol on Jan 6th with Alex Jones? I have this feeling that in 20 years, we'll still be uncovering evidence about Trump's attempted coup.
