phone with this random bail bondsman in georgia that no one had ever heard of. so as much as the coffee county breach was a failure, it appears to have been a failure that was coordinated at the highest levels of the white house. and that, my friends, has echoes of another famously failed break-in from our nation s history. the burglars broke through a fire escape drawer that led to the committee s offices. one of the suspects, james mccord, operates his own security company in washington. he was doing work for the republican national committee, and the committee to reelect president nixon. no one has proved that the republicans were replied to the break-in, but tomorrow the democrats are expected to file some sort of legal action against the gop anyway. now, it is easy to forget how poorly run the watergate break-in was. the tape they used to cover
tried that day or even more than one of these defendants tried that day. we ve talked about how complex the case is just on the facts alone. she is pulling in a lot of information, not just about things that happened in georgia, but everywhere. the coffee county breach, part of the allegation is they re sending that data outside the state, to what they, and we don t know. they re gonna get discovery and all that. it highlights what we are dealing with here. october is technically what has to happen for speedy trial reasons. in all likely could, i think it s unrealistic. the discovery process doesn t begin now. for those who have been following some of the federal trials, the discovery process is underway after the surrender. yes. that is not happening in georgia. will likely not happen until september, right? perhaps. you ll see the judge has set an expedited schedule and so we will see what other motions get filed, even before september. already we have seen right meadows, we
senior legal analyst elie honig. let s get back to some of sara murray s great reporting that prosecutors are in possession of text messages and emails directly connecting members of donald trump s legal team to this coffee county breach. what kind of evidence is this? it s the kind of evidence prosecutors love because it s irrefutable. you have a text, email, show it to the jury. you don t need some eyewitness explaining what they may or may not remember or have seen or heard. the other thing i think prosecutors will find valuable is it s concrete action. there s arguments about, well, donald trump he made a phone call, he asked somebody to do something. is that protected speech? does that cross the line into criminality? whatever that may be, when you are actually without authority accessing voting machines, that s clearly over the line of criminality. it went beyond a conversation of wouldn t this be great if we could find these things in coffee county. it was far beyond that.