County, georgia. And it is a doozy. The first codefendant in Donald Trumps Election Interference case, that rico case that charged a Criminal Enterprise, has flipped. Scott hall is in atlanta an athletearea Bail Bondsman. Hes accused of being involved in the plan to steal sensitive Election Data in Coffey County. He faces seven charges in the fulton case. And now again we just learned hes taking a plea deal. Lets bring in Greg Blue Stein with the Atlanta Journal constitution and former Acting Assistants Attorney General for National Security mary mccord. The Reverend Al Sharpton joins our coverage, as well. Greg, i feel like this attempt to steal sensitive Election Data in Coffey County never garnered the National Attention that it deserved considering how essential it was to trumps plot to overturn his defeated georgia. But take us inside first the significance of a guilty plea, and second his role in that Criminal Enterprise charged by d. A. Fannie willis. Youre right, scott hall was
Years as a young adult in california, there were two female senators, senators Dianne Feinstein and Barbara Boxer, both elected in 1992 during the socalled year of the woman. I was 9 years old when that happened, too young to grasp what was going on, and not entirely aware of Anita Hill Saga that prompted it so to me it was norm toll look to have washington and see two women representing my state. Completely normal to see one of those women led by bipartisan or to see her lead the Intelligence Committee or see her held to account for egregious wrong doing after 9 11 or see her stand up to the chief to get an apology out of it. It was norm toll watch Dianne Feinstein work in washington, and i know you see this coming, but looking back at the unremarkability is precisely what makes it so remarkable. Wasnt until i came an adult covering politics that i understood how hard she had to fight, sometimes against wings of her own party. Today the flags around the capitol are flying at half staf
Live tv, we saw the turning over of that. It was right in the middle of other business. That is not the way we see it. What about the tone of it . It is civil, but that is a little bit different from the two sides and the judge. Well, that is a little bit of the you want a speedy trial, and welcome to the speedy trial, and Terabytes Worth of discovery you can go through prior to the october 3rd start date. But i see that just what we have seen of the judge before in this case taking a methodical approach piece by piece and playing it down the middle. It is not a lot of, you know, bombasts or a lot of the loud voices. It is a, this is how it should be run, and hopefully how it is going to be playing out for the rest of the trial. One interesting nuance that i picked up on is when the Defense Attorneys for chesebro and powell were talking to the grand jurors, they said, look, we are not the kind of grand jurors are going to dox them. And they are aware of it. Yes, because the names are p
These questions about the grand jury or the reading of the indictment summary are part of deliberations and they cant get into that because its prohibited. I would just cite ocga151267 says it requires the grand jury to keep the deliberations of the grand jury secret unless called upon to give evidence thereof in the court of law in the state. And it talks about the information which i think goes towards the case is what they were talking about, whether or not the prosecutor was about a particular decision. None of those things here exist and ill get to their solution as to how they want to handle that with the court. But i will also state that federal rule 606 as well as 24 of here in georgia mirrors that, which basically says the same thing that, validity is an indictment, a jury shall not testify on affidavits otherwise nor shall a jurys statement be received as evidence in any such manner. And that gets into, what is the purpose of this voyeur dire that they want to do of these gra
These questions about the grand jury or the reading of the indictment summary are part of deliberations and they cant get into that because its prohibited. I would just cite ocga151267 says it requires the grand jury to keep the deliberations of the grand jury secret unless called upon to give evidence thereof in the court of law in the state. And it talks about the information which i think goes towards the case is what they were talking about, whether or not the prosecutor was about a particular decision. None of those things here exist and ill get to their solution as to how they want to handle that with the court. But i will also state that federal rule 606 as well as 24 of here in georgia mirrors that, which basically says the same thing that, validity is an indictment, a jury shall not testify on affidavits otherwise nor shall a jurys statement be received as evidence in any such manner. And that gets into, what is the purpose of this voyeur dire that they want to do of these gra