Hello again, everyone. Thank you so much for joining me. Im Fredricka Whitfield in washington, d. C. We begin this hour with exclusive new reporting on the investigation into Donald Trumps efforts to overturn the 2020 election. Sources tell cnn that georgia prosecutors now have Text Messages and emails directly connecting trumps legal team to a Voting System breach in Coffey County georgia in january 2021. This comes as the District Attorney investigating trump in georgia appears to be close to an indictment. Fani willis is expected to bring charges against a dozen people. If she brings charges against the former president , it will be his 12th since leaving officers. Zach, tell us all that you know. Reporter yeah, fred. Its a south georgia county, heavily republican, trump carried the vote by 70 there. But prosecutors do have Text Messages that Connect Members of trumps legal team to the breach that happened in the Election Office where operatives hired by lawyers like Sidney Powell a
i just want to find is 11,780 votes, which is one more than we have because we won the state. so do you still see that phone call, the president called it a perfect phone call, do you see that phone call as key to any possible trump indictment? oh, yeah. it is a perfect phone call for prosecutors. nothing like an audiotape that way, and you can just put those words up on the screen and they ll do it repeatedly and it screams out solicitation to commit election interference, which is one of the leading charges i expect from this indictment when it comes out say tuesday or wednesday. and if trump is charged, it would be his fourth indictment. you know, where would this georgia case rank, in your view, against the other cases in terms of legal threats for trump? well, on the one hand this is sprawling and it s not subject to pardon.
lawyers working for rudy giuliani were involved in that planning process. there s one that even mentions the mayor, which is something that we ve seen operatives that have been working for the trump campaign refer to rudy giuliani as in other communications. so really connecting some of the dots here and drawing a more direct line between former president donald trump s attorneys and this breach that happened in coffey county that is part of the fani willis investigation. and what do we think this week is going to look like? we re expecting the fulton county d.a. willis coming out with indictments as soon as next week. over a dozen people could face criminal charges, including former president donald trump. that s expected to ramp up here in the early days of next week. zachary cohen, thank you so much in atlanta.
connecting members of donald trump s legal team to the early january 2021 voting system breach in coffee county, georgia. it s big. we ve known about the breach but had no idea that it could have been overseen or even the moving forces would have been so high up in the trump campaign. giuliani is about as high as you go. and it s a crime well, first of all, it s crimes many crimes when you have this sort of violation of computers, both new fangled computer laws and old fashioned trespass laws and it falls under the category what were they thinking? it s so plainly a violation. it s so plainly something that a campaign can t get involved in. and we might have thought before then it had been on the ground, people who didn t know one from the other, but giuliani, powell, that really puts it up very high. and the third point is, nothing