At 202 7488002. Good morning to you. The first page, the headline as trump and 18 allies indicted in georgia. And charged with conspiring to overturn the 2020 election. The District Attorney announcing that indictment late last night. Today, based on information developed by that investigation, the Fulton County grand jury is charging 19 individuals with violations of georgia law arising from a sole conspiracy to overturn the results of the 2020 president ial election. The indictment includes 41 felony counts and is 90 seven pages long. Everyone charged is presumed innocent. This brings charges against donald j. Trump, rudolph William Lewis giuliani, john charles eastman, mark randall meadows, john , jeffrey clark, jenna lynn ellis, Ray Stallings smith the third, robert cheeley, michael roman, david j shaper, sean michael steele, stephen clif bar lee, harris and prescott floyd, tracy on sydney catherine powell, Kathleen Austin latham, Scott Graham Hall and misty hampton, also known as emily misty hayes. Every individual charged in the indictment is charged with one count of violating georgias racketeer influenced and corrupt organizations act. Participation in a criminal enterprise in Fulton County, georgia and elsewhere to accomplish the legal goal of allowing donald j. Trump to seize the president ial term of office, beginning on january 20, 2021. Host more of that press conference later, but we also want to hear from you this morning, getting your reaction. This is the reaction from the former president and his campaign yesterday, putting out a statement saying, radical a medical partisan is campgning on a platform. Pping a page from crooked joe bidens playbook, trying to interfere with the 2024 president ial race and damage the dominant trump campaign. All attempts will fail. That is the statement yesterday. First from the huffington post, the headline today, and attempt to overturn and steal joe bidens victory in that state culminated in the capital attack. The daily caller with simply more charges. We want to hear from you. Starting on that line for republicans in pennsylvania. Good morning. Caller good morning and thank you for taking my call. I watched this all night. The clerk posted in indictment much earlier in the day. They were asked about it. They said that was a mistake. This is much earlier. Then, in indictment. It was the same thing that had been posted earlier. I feel that this whole thing needs to be null and void, and all that rhetoric needs to be shuttered. It is too bad what is going on in our country today. We have a beautiful country. The u. S. Is a beautiful place. It is a good place and a fair place and we need to keep it that way. Host he said he have been up all night. Have you read any of that . Caller yes. I take a little nap and there, but they are talking about it on the channel. It keeps coming out, how this was posted and then they say, dont Pay Attention to that. It was the same thing. Host here is the introduction to that indictment. The defendant donald j. Trump lost the election held on november 2020. Trump and the other defendants refused to accept a loss. That conspiracy contained a purpose to make to to be more acts or more. Elsewhere in the state of georgia and in other state through this latest indictment. Just over four months. He faces 91 criminal charges across those four indictments. This is roy in greensboro, north carolina. Caller i have a couple things to say here. I think the media is falling down. This was the fairest election ever. It was the most paper ballots. Trump won in 2016 and there was only 70 5 paper ballots. The turnout was 67 . That was the highest since 1900. We do not even know what it was then. People turned out to get made of donald trump. People are voting for their dead mothers, people sending a invalid and then going to the polls to try to the. In arizona, trump lost Something Like 360 votes when they did a recount. Host bring need yesterdays indictment. Caller this is a long time coming. It is really true here because not only have they been pushing this totally false and intimidating election workers and people, the intimidation has been off the chart. They have left their businesses and i do not we have caller id these days. Mother, grandmother and they got 20 threatening calls, and the police did nothing about it. I do not know why. When they are pushing violence, they get away with it. This is a chance. Host the state charges in this light in this latest indictment. A law designed to nab mafia bosses. That story and charging. A provision that at the federal level would create targeted crime. Where is they used part of the rico law. Rico statutes for racketeer influenced and corrupt organization them seek higher sentences. A minimum five year prison sentencing and up to 20 years. It shows a pattern of criminal activity. They lay out this broad case of trump and his inner circle. 19 people charged the former president as a codefendant in this case. Good morning. Caller good morning. People like the last caller are the reason why this country is in such that shape. The last election was not fair. The democratic fraud they have way over charged in and all of these indictments. Because you cannot question the result without it being charged as a crime. Host did you read this indictment or the previous . Caller i listened when they had the news conference. Host he specifically said every american has the right to a First Amendment of speech. It was four counts in that specific indictment. I didnt caller i do not see how that is fair. If you asked the question, find out what happened here in there, that is not the same thing as saying when trump said, i need to find so many thousands of votes to win the election, i think he is being metaphorical. I do not think he was trying to fabricate votes. Host laying out the conversation, he was still president at the time. The part that you were focusing on, the former president what are we going to do . We need 11,000 votes. Tell me, what are we going to do . We won the election. It is going to be very costly in many ways. He said to the president , you have people who submitted information. We had to stand by our numbers. Our numbers are right. This is angela from dumfries, virginia. Good morning. Caller good morning. That democrat caller, it just shows that people do not want to be fair and honest. How can it be the fairest election history, when it was during the pandemic . I did not even need a ballot because i showed up in person. It was ridiculous. Anybody with common sense would know that it couldnt be possible simply because of where we were with the pandemic. I remember distinctly when President Trump won in 2016 and i remember that the democrats made a video telling the people who were to cast the balance on the house floor to change. They actually contacted one of the people several people who were supposed to cast ballots and told them to get give their votes to Hillary Clinton. Why dont you find that video where they had all those people trying to give their votes to Hillary Clinton . Anybody with fair mindedness knows that this is a lie. Host this is darrell from columbus, georgia. Caller how are you doing this morning . We had a great night last night. We had a beyonce concert and then we had this thing with trump. You listen up. The rico is what is starting to get him. Five year minimum . I cannot believe these people are willing to sacrifice their lives and their careers for this guy. With those types of charges coming against you, somebody is going to go to her office some of them are going to go there and say, we want to do Something Different now because i do not see them wanting to sit down for that amount of time. Host you think one of the codefendants will come out and testify against the former president . Caller that is right. You do not want that. A lot of them it is going to start this morning. Host did you know much about Fulton CountyDistrict Attorney sandy willis fanni willis before this . Caller we all knew that she is a female pit bull. That is what we call her. She is the master of rico. Those laws, she knows them very well, and she knows how to use them. They do not stand a chance with these types of charges. They better go to her office and try to do Something Different. Host do you feel the and that indictment out of new york as well . Do you feel just as strongly that they do not stand a chance against those either . Caller they have great things going on. The new york thing, a little bit iffy on that one. But both cases are very strong. I just want to tell maga one thing really quick. Do not come down to georgia with all that craziness and rhetoric. We do not want to be a part of that stuff. We do not want violence. I encourage everybody to sit back and let this thing play out. Trump is going to jail. It is what it is. Host next, independent. Caller that last guy is an example of why we are in trouble. Please. As far as weak, they put the indictment out online before the grand jury even got together and said he was guilty of these charges, supposedly. People, come on. As far as joe biden, this is another example of why washington needs to be fleshed out. It is a sewer, not a swamp. A swamp is an ecosystem that thrives. People, we are in trouble. If we rely on these individuals to do justice, there is no justice. We are trying to make sure that this guy they are trying to make sure that this guy cannot run. They are worried about their jobs, so people, just it back and watch. Host a quick rundown stand. These are indictments over four months. One related to hush money payments. At that one was filed back in the beginning of april this year. When it comes to this case, the election inquiry in georgia, we saw charges filed yesterday. The january 6 case, four charges filed against the former president. The documents case will be taking place in florida, also a federal case coming from the special prosecutors office. That could still change some 40 criminal charges in that case. All told, if you add them up, that is 91 criminal charges the former president. They were added yesterday in the state of georgia. This is,. Go ahead. Caller i wanted to express my opinion. I am a lifelong republican and i listened to this on the tv. There is a reason donald got indicted. Republicans told on him. It was not the green party. There were no democrats in that white house. His own people told on him. The republicans did not lose. Host did you vote for donald trump as a republican in 2020 . Caller no. Until they take those socks off their eyes, they will cannot get my the. Host who is the republican your supporting this time around . Caller they are scared of donald trump and his supporters. They say anything bad about donald trump, they cannot get supporters, but the bottom line is host this is rick out of boston. Good morning. Caller i want to tell all the republicans out there donald trump is going to jail. There is not going to be any transition. Host lets work on not namecalling. We are trying to have a conversation. If you going call and without namecalling, that would make it so that we can have a conversation. Republican in oregon. Good morning. Caller this would be funny if it were not so scary. Is there anything else that they king not get trump on . I am a republican, but i am scared to stand up in public and say anything because they are getting dangerous. Host getting your reaction on the phone line as usual. Showing you some of the reaction in the past eight or nine hours. This was Speaker Mccarthy just before midnight. Mccarthy saying justice should be blind but there has been an interference. Not from the speaker of the house yesterday evening. This joint statement from chuck schumer, the democratic leader and thomason jeffries on what they put out saying just like the three that came before, there is a pattern of activity. A monthlong plot trying to overturn the will of the people of georgia. The actions taken reaffirm the shared belief that in america, no one is above the law. We urge mr. Trump, his supporters without outside interference. The next step in that Legal Process is answering the indictment. They have given him until friday to answer that indictment. Gina is out of minnesota. Good morning. Caller thank you for i have a request. We are trying to get both sides of this particular story, actually, all of the stories. Event then across articles and fox news where they wrote a book and said he did the same thing. He went down to find votes. I wish get him onto the program because he is a democrat. He does not have any love towards trump. He is a constitutional lawyer and he could do indictment down and get an honest opinion from somebody who sits in the middle on all of these indictments. I am not getting it on tv. I have to buy a new remote because the buttons do not work. Thank you. Host that book came out back in the spring, get trump. Alan has been a guest on this program in the past and probably will be again in the future. The line for democrats. Good morning. Caller what people fail to realize is that it was ok when comey came out right before hillary. That happened. But trump has been guilty of so many things. You cannot go and do and say the things that he said. Everybody going against him are people that he hired. He said, i only hired the people best people. Im going to drain the swamp. He did this. These are his people. This man is corrupt and a narcissist. He does not care what he says. The judge is telling him not to speak about certain things. These people are deranged. It is like a cult. It is like the sales guy who says if you repeat something three times to somebody, they will remember it and go with it. He has not talked about anything he is going to do for the economy. All he does is talk about sleepy joe and hunter biden. He was never in office and never did anything for the white house. That is unlike donald junior making money. Then you have Jared Kushner you that billions of dollars from the saudis, after office. There is so much more that goes into this. It is like a horse on the racetrack with the blinders on. They are going for the finish line. Host it is 7 30 on the east coast come about a half hour into washington journal. Comments from fanni willis happening last night. Here is a little bit more, announcing the indictment. All elections are put out by the state. We want to ensure a fair process and an accurate accounting of the votes. That includes elections for president ial elections, congress, state officials and local offices. The states role is essential to the functioning of our democracy. Georgia, like everything has long been allowed those who believe that the Election Results are wrong, whether because of intentional wrongdoing or unintentional error to challenge those results in our state court. The indictment alleges that rather than abide by georgias Legal Process for the old challenges, the defendants engaged in a criminal racketeering enterprise to overturn georges president ial election reports. The grand jury issued arrest warrants for those who were charged. I am giving defendants the opportunity to voluntarily surrender no later than noon on friday. The 20 fifth day of august 2020 three. Host we are getting your reaction this morning on the phone line. The numbers are on your screen. Republican, good morning. Caller good morning. The last time i checked, you are innocent until proven guilty. Some are checking and and all they are saying is what the media has shown. Number two, the lady talking about hunter biden, that same prosecutor had an assistant commissioner with the Police Department charged to as much as 10 months in prison for the exact same charge hunter biden had. Two tiers of justice. I do not know how you can defend that. How can you defend the same prosecutor charging another person with the exact same crime . Hunter biden get slap on the wrist. Can anybody justify that for me . Host have you had a chance to read any of the indictments that have come out . Caller no, sir. I am not going to prejudge the trial, but i will read them, but people are already convicting him. All you are hearing is one side of it. We have not heard the other side. And you are innocent. Did i vote for him . Yes. What i vote for him again . Yes. I do get talking about 20 20 and how the election was stolen. It is time to move on and tell people what he wants to do, if he gets the nomination. Host san bernardino, california, independent. Caller it is nice to talk to you. If you recall, i am really on the sideline on this one. It was he said what are you proud of and i said, america is a good as empires go, but none of them are good. I am looking at this as a situation where difficult times like this, there are mobsters on all sides of things and politicians in general tend to have it as a narcissistic, sociopathic society. The question is, is he a good monster who does not or is he one that goes down for everything . When i watched her up there with the defendants and 19 people, these state charges he can get he can pardon himself. Host this is mike in the buckeye state. Caller i china to think about things logically in my mind, these prosecutors investigated everything, the facts. In my mind, they are not going to do all this work to get probation. What is perplexing to me is that republican colors are so enamored by, they do not look at the facts. Hunter biden, clinton, anything other than what is the topic at hand. In my mind, what is frustrating and angering the is that the u. S. May drop to be opal workers and he got Death Threats from it as a result of him just running his mouth. I cannot wrap my head around how the republicans do not rebuke him. They still want him to be president of the u. S. , and i cannot wrap my head around this. It is very frustrating. Thank you for letting me speak my mind. Host fanni willisinvestigation here. It was back in january 2022 that willis requested a special jet grand jury be convened, citing the reluctance without a subpoena. It was given full subpoena power and the ability this was over roughly eight months including key trump advisors. There was aggressive lobbying. In january, it included a final report. The Fulton CountyDistrict Attorney making her charges yesterday. 13 charges against the former president. 19 people a child aged and this is the fourth indictment to hit President Trump. West virginia, republican. Good morning. Caller good morning. Thank you for taking my call. I was wondering if anybody else stayed up to watch the election being counted, the night of the election. It seems to me that maybe the callers can straighten him out on this or say that i was wrong, but i thought it was in georgia that the election area where the votes were being counted they were not allowing a republican to sit beside the democrat counter to verify the vote. I thought they locked them out. I just wanted someone that stayed up and watched it, if i am right about that. Another thing that bothers me about all of this is, Hillary Clinton, when she was issued a subpoena for her emails, hard drive and phone, she destroyed them. It seems like, if you are just a regular citizen and you do that, you are to go to jail for violating a subpoena. One more item. This special counsel that was appointed, i heard on tv that Hunter Bidens plea deal those items, i wonder what is good. Host do you think to all of your questions, are you concerned about the former president getting a fair trial . Caller yes, sir. Democrat or republican. I have worked in several elections. Host do you trust the Justice System generally . Caller if it is true about the special counsel that was appointed in the hunter biden keys, he was hunters lawyer but he was hunted as the special counsel looking into this . That does not seem right to me. Why was Hillary Clinton why was she not charged, after she was issued that subpoena and destroyed those items, the phones, the hard drives and the computers . Host out of philadelphia, independent. Good morning. Caller good morning. Thank you for taking my call. I would like to say that donald trump is getting everything he deserves. They should take down his truth lies or truths social, whatever you want to call it. But what i would like to say is to all the republicans out there who like to bring up hillary and everything else, he had four years. Go after her. Donald trump did not know how to let sleeping dogs lie. His mouth got him in trouble. When you are a kid, you are taught not to talk back. These people were very hard to get where they are at professionally. It is just disgusting. People wonder why there is violence in this country. Take a look at it. He broke the biggest vowed that you could ever have in life. Forget about lying to the public about everything. He lied to his wife and cheated on her with a poor and star, not some respectful woman in the white house and then he paid her one hundred thousand dollars. The woman who had his child, he lied to. For all you holy rollers, let that sink in a little bit. Host he mentioned the social accounts. He posted his latest truth, as they call them on the social platform. This is what he wrote. The witch hunt continues. And very corrupt system. What about those documents put out today . Why didnt they indict two point five years ago, they wanted to do it right in the middle of my political campaign. Witch hunt is what he had to say last night. This is Dorothy Hampton in virginia. Caller good morning, america. I would like to talk about donald trump. De people remember in 1989 . Donald trump the next day put out a fullpage ad, wanting to bring back the Death Penalty for those young men. Now you find out years later that they were innocent. This is karma coming back to donald trump. Hope you enjoy your prison time. Goodbye. Host republican, you are next. Caller good morning. To the gentleman he was asking listeners if his observations were correct he is correct. I also view those observations that is normal. And also, not only the political, the courts, etc. , that is normal. It is our right to do that, so be careful when we judge. Karma comes to everybody who prejudges everybody else. Host the last frontier in alaska. Good morning and thank you for being up very early in alaska. Caller i have a question. Last night, i was listening to a recording of the conversation between President Trump and the georgia officials. In it, it is very clearly said over and over again. Just asking you to find whatever that number was. And he also talked about the fact that she said, i kept asking you to look at Fulton County. My question is this. He keeps referring to some sort of dissent decree that test the georgia officials from being able to examine signatures. What was that . Was there a consent to cree that he signed that the governor signed by the secretary of state signed that kept the georgia officials from examining certain signatures . There was some sort of Consent Decree and i wonder if cspan knows anything about that. Host i do not know about Consent Decrees, but examining voters and voter rolls, here is one exchange from that conversation that you referred to that printed part of the transcript of that conversation. This was back in 2021. We take you live to the capital, where the houses holding a brief session. [captioning made possible by th, inc. , in cooperation with the United States house of representatives. Any use of the closedcaptioned coverage of the house proceedings for political or commercial purposes is expressly prohibited by the u. S. House of representatives. ]