Prosecute gangs or mafia crime families sums up the entire coup plot. Here is how District Attorney willis puts it last night. The indictment alleges that rather than abide by georgias Legal Process for election challenges, the defendants engaged in a Criminal Racketeering Enterprise to overturn georgias president ial election results. Now, her indictment of this Criminal Racketeering Enterprise begins with a very simple and clear statement, it goes like this. Quote, depth donald trump lost the United States president ial election held on november 3rd, 2020. Prosecutors allege that the entire coup plot was in service of reversing that one single, simple fact. They say that trump and his 18 codefendants along with 30 unindicted coconspirators, quote, constituted a criminal organization, whose members and associates engaged in various related criminal activities, including and not limited to false statements and writings, impersonating public officers, forgery, filing false documents, in
And now it is a legal term. Ask anybody. Theyll tell you. Thank you, ari. See you later, joy. And we do continue to follow the breaking news tonight that donald trump has received indictment number three, courtesy of the d. C. Grand jury investigating his efforts to overturn the 2020 election. And let us just be clear, this is an historic moment in this country. Never has a president of the United States refused to relinquish power until trump. Never has a former president come up with a conspiracy that involves having their Vice President overturn the will of the people through the use of fake electors until trump. Never has a former president incited an insurrection with armed extremists to storm the u. S. Capitol until trump. And no u. S. President has ever been indicted before trump. And again for trump, this is indictment number three. And in many ways, it is the most historically significant one because its not just about his personal conduct. It is about us, our democracy. And n
tomorrow. you may know him as steve bannon but on monday trump s former campaign manager and chief white house strategist will become federal inmate 056- 3509. having already lost his case and first appeal bannon is expected to report to a federal prison in connecticut on monday morning. s that unless the supreme court intervenes which it could do at any moment. today the department of justice, formerly urged the high court not to intervene here. and to let mr. bannon face accountability for his actions but remarkably, the justice department isn t the only group that lobbied the court about steve bannon today. mr. speaker, i understand there might be a change in position regarding the house and their stance on the january 6th committee and it might be regarding steve bannon and it may have a big impact on his contempt case. tell me what s going on. yeah, we re working on filing an amicus grief on his apellate court there in his case. reporter: today speaker of the hou
Lindsey graham. That republican civil war. There has not been a more destructive presidency than george bushs. More evidence that the Republican Party is showing signs of splitting in two. And in the wake of the Harvey Weinstein scandal we ask female senators to share their me too stories with meet the press. He slammed the door and lunged for me. I have a story. He looked at me and paused and said did you bring your knee pads. Remarkable stories of what happened to powerful women early in their careers. Joining me for insight and analysis are tom friedman, daniel pletka. Robert costa for the Washington Post and cooper, pentagon correspondent for the New York Times. Welcome to sunday. Its meet the press. From nbc news in washington, the longest running show in television history, celebrating its 70th year this is meet the press with chuck todd. Good sunday morning. This was a week when attention should have been focussed on issues with real life consequences, future of health care, tax
Schumer and republican senator Lindsey Graham. That republican civil war. There has not been a more destructive presidency than george bushs. More evidence that the Republican Party is showing signs of splitting in two. And in the wake of the Harvey Weinstein scandal we ask female senators to share their me too stories with meet the press. He slammed the door and lunged for me. I have a story. He looked at me and paused and said did you bring your knee pads. Remarkable stories of what happened to powerful women early in their careers. Joining me for insight and analysis are tom friedman, daniel pletka. Robert costa for the Washington Post and cooper, pentagon correspondent for the New York Times. Welcome to sunday. Its meet the press. From nbc news in washington, the longest running show in television history, celebrating its 70th year this is meet the press with chuck todd. Good sunday morning. This was a week when attention should have been focussed on issues with real life consequen