A very good day to all of you from the Tom Brokaw News Center here in los angeles. Welcome, everyone, to alex witt reports. Developing this hour, donald trump and his 18 codefendants now have six days to surrender at the Fulton County courthouse in georgia, on racketeering and conspiracy charges. Three senior Law Enforcement officials tell nbc news, they are anticipating the former president will turn himself in at the atlanta jail, no earlier than thursday, but they stressed nothing is yet officially it. Democratic what congressman, eric swalwell, gave msnbc his assessment of what happens next for the former president. Here it is. Donald trump is going to get a Justice System that hes never been willing to afford to others. He always wants to try and convict people in the public square, without giving them any due process. Hes gonna get all the due process, hes gonna get every protection under law, and whatever happens to donald trump, it is going to come from his peers. And thats why
governors. when that didn t work, they went to the fake electors to try to get the fake electors to have a reason to throw it back to the state legislatures so that the republicans there could say, you are right, these are the real electors and don trump won the election. it was all part of the same big spiraling conspiracy, and that is why they focused in on these calls. they re looking for the evidence for trump and his team trying to push that conspiracy forward. and to your point, specifically. so all, right let s take a look at a handful of trump s tweets that have been listed in the indictment. directing followers to hearings in the gop dominated georgia senate. you have falsely claiming to have far more votes than needed to flip georgia, and then of course karen governor brian kemp a full and suggesting two senators could have a bad day, whatever that means, on january 5th. calling blatt raffensperger clueless for refusing to engage the false claims, and in pressuring mike pen
christian, tell me why these are not being treated as free speech? they re not being treated as free speech because it really goes into the conduct. look, d.a. willis s approach is very clear based on her indictment. she is treating trump like a mafia boss. not just a common criminal. that is why the racketeering charges have been incorporated into the criminal charges. this means the trumps patterns of behavior across all of these activities, talking about the phone calls, and the trees that we just mentioned, these all highlight that intent, and that is critical for proving these charges beyond a reasonable doubt. the intent behind endorsing fraud claims during the georgia legislative hearings. the targeting of officials like kent and raffensperger. and then trying to sway pence over the electoral college. together, all of that really can suggest a concerted effort to really interfere with the elections, even if, in a vacuum,
that you have to remember is that these are what are called overt actions in favor, that helped push forward the one rico charge that all 19 defendants are facing. their actions to help perpetrate the criminal conspiracy to overturn the election. so while trump may say they were perfect, these were all calls pushing people and state legislators mostly to overturn the results of the election in their state. and if not state legislators, and state officials like brian kemp and raffensperger, they calls that were specifically about, hey, you need to throw in the results of this election and say that trump was the winner. so they re focusing on these calls because they were calls that had a specific ask about the results of the election. and they kept pushing the same points throughout the layers of this scheme. when it did not work to go directly to the state legislatures, they went to the