grand jury, the indictment is being walked over to judge mcburney. he just announced it to members of the media. once that happens, the defendants will be announced. the charges will be announced. however, the indictment itself will not be read out loud. what i mean by that, you won t actually have if it s a speaking indictment from what we ve heard, it will usually be anticipated in this instance, you won t actually be the indictment in its entirety being wet. however, we were made aware of who the defendant, or defendants, plural, will be. you re watching right now on your screen, that is a clerk who is receiving that. it has to be stamped and filed in into the court system, ari, and then it will be walked over to judge mcburney into his courtroom, at which point in time will be read as allowed by the judge. stay with us, katie. nicole and i were just discussing, we did not see any arraignment. this is a public process that
permit to have cameras in the courtroom. and, nicole, again, as we are watching this, and we have the feed off the back of the courtroom. we expect the process that we saw in the hallway to continue, to commence. so we are in it right now, but, nicole, when you think about the lies that offend the insurrection and the accountability. we have a civil process. fox news had to pay out a lot and they re still making that. we have a criminal process if people had been found under evidence. that is in contention of corruption, not just repeat or get confused, but really be a part of it. i am struck by the fact that there is a push and april that we are seeing amidst the breaking news. the lives, the lies, the reactions, even this process where the facts, the evidence is in that indictment, what we believe to be indictments and they re in the officer s hands. nicole? we should never forget that this is not the best mechanism for holding trump accountable. a healthy functioning republican
the process that delivered. and we certainly don t know in realtime with the vote is, although as soon as we get, it will be the breaking news tonight. stay with, me tamar. i m gonna bring one of our legal experts, andrew weissmann, who s here in our headquarters, our newsroom in new york. and he may have thought, or a question for you in a moment. my follow-up question to you is, although we are getting into the weeds here, that s okay, because we are waiting on the news. i am curious since you are there and you are in it when today it started to feel different? because when we started the day, there was a plan there was talk of ten witnesses over two days. and as katie phang was just reminding viewers from her perch there, outside the courtroom, and you are currently inside, more witnesses were pulled in. and we start to get the feeling from those close, and on the record statements from the judge, this could all go down tonight. if it goes down tonight, i can t tell america what t
of crimes that are chargeable under state law. but to say yes, this was all part of throwing a federal election. that s still very much possible, particularly in these cases that have been investigated and pursued separately, which all in the indications are what happens. i just want to talk about the trial date, because a lot of people are saying, this is great. but when is the trial going to happen. and vaughn sort of alluded to this. but at the state level, there s a lot of things in georgia, that takes a long time. this is a long process. and to bear the case. we talked a lot about the streamline january 6th federal case. if it s one of these huge rico cases, it could take a very long time. jury selection, there s a jury selection that has taken over six months, just the jury selection. so this state case could be quite ways down the road. conversely, the federal case, because of these threats, the federal judge has indicated,
timeline that we were expecting, a case of this magnitude, we expected it would take at least two days to present. there were two witnesses that were lined up for tomorrow. in fact, for whatever reason, the d.a. and her team decided to call them in the middle of the day, basically saying, hey, listen, i know we told you to come in tomorrow. but come in today. we want to get your testimony today. one of those witnesses is george chidi, an independent journalist here in atlanta, who s kind of been almost live tweeting his experience of this, talking about waiting in the hallway, talking about talking with another witness, former lieutenant governor jeff duncan we just saw right there. so is getting bits and pieces of what this process looks like. again, the biggest update on timing, according to my sources, with knowledge of these proceedings izzy grand jury is currently voting. symone? so, the grand jury is voting right now, blayne. what happens after that? walk us what have your so