Good evening everyone, and welcome back to our special breaking news coverage, im laura coates on this a stunning night in american history. As the 45th u. S. President s criminally indicted now for the fourth time. Donald trump now accused of leading a criminal enterprise to overturn the 2020 election in georgia. Im kaitlan collins, its not just trump. 18 others have been charged alongside him in this 41 count indictment tonight, including his former Chief Of Staff, mark meadows. His former attorney, Rudy Giuliani, and the onetime mayor of new york. All 19 defendants are facing racketeering charges. I mean, the indictment states all, quote, refused to accept that trump lost and they knowingly, and willfully, joined the conspiracy to unlawfully change the outcome of the election in favor of trump. Joining me now here in d. C. Is cnns evan perez, also the washington correspondent of the atlanta journalconstitution, tea mitchell and is back as well. Tour former house judiciary special co
the american people are very dissatisfied with the prospect of a rematch between trump and biden. and i think that this is going to be even more dissatisfaction if we don t get the result of some of these cases before people vote next november. he has been charged with mishandling national security documents, charged with trying to overthrow the government on january 6th. he was charged in the georgia case. to me, not getting, not letting him resolve these things before he stands for the office of presidency, if he s the nominee, i just don t see how we can stand for it. do you think it s likely? maybe not, you both seem skeptical as the attorneys, that this case itself you are in your political had tonight. just cause i tip the bar couple of times. good point.
polling, multiple polling s significant majority independents. and they say that he should not be president again if he is convicted of a. crime and, now we will get there before the election? i don t know, but donald trump is the nominee that has to increase its vote from last time. he lost by 7 million votes. and he s got to expand his coalition. it s hard to see what s in. here you, know in all of these indictments, it s gonna cause people who did not vote for trump in 2020 to go, okay, now i think is. why plus, you have the issue of abortion in those key states, as we saw on ohio this. week so, again, a former republican. the ones who are questioning whether trump can win again. they have ammunition in that argument. but, you don t see the other candidates making it very strongly. and as a result, it really isn t yet part of that. like maybe it will change at the debate. and then after, the prospect of having, and concentrates the mind as they say. and all the republican candidates
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didn t mention. it was tried with the manhattan case. alvin bragg, judge palestine, body slammed that effort at removal of the bragg case by trump, saying the same thing is going to happen. here before you venture into true law school near territory let me ask you about this, evan. listen, there was a moment when brad raffensperger call is going to come up. we ve heard it so many times, we heard about the idea that they just want to find 11,780 votes, just one more. there is this thought that, somehow, that is only part of the story. if you were to play more of the tape it would show you something that is beneficial to donald trump. i think david schoen kind of addressed that and he said that if you play the full context of the tape that the jury will have a different opinion, or might get a different picture. the problem with that is that