Who will address this indictment. We are being told that News Conference will take place in about 19 minutes. Lets get you live outside the courthouse to matt finn. He is in atlanta with the braking allegations. What do we know. Reporter we are looking through the Indictment Documents right now. They do read that donald trump and some of his associates including Rudy Giuliani and mark meadows have been arrested and charged in this indictment. There is a long list of various charges including racketeering, false statements and solicitation of a violation of an oath by a public officer. We a reading to this right now. We will update you much more throughout the coming hour or two. Throughout the day, there was a lot of anticipation or questions about who might be named in this indictment if any of Donald Trumps associates would be listed. We know that many of them are. There is a log was including some of his former attorneys. We are waiting on the Press Conference from the Fulton County
A postelection trial in the Georgia Elections case, and that could actually happen. Well have expert legal analysis for you straight ahead. Meanwhile, a codefendant in that case is taking a different approach. Well explain the strategy for trumps former Chief Of Staff, mark meadows. Meanwhile, President Joe Biden was on the road yesterday talking about everything but the latest indictment for his predecessor. Well show you what he was focused on instead. Good morning and welcome to Way Too Early on this wednesday, august 16th. Im jonathan lemire. Thanks for starting your day with us. The clock has begun on the tenday windowt that former President Trump and his 18 codefendants have to voluntarily turn themselves in. Fulton County District attorney fani willis announced a sweeping Election Interference indictment on monday night and gave everyone charged until august 25th to surrender to authorities. If and when they appear theyll do so at the Fulton County jail in atlanta for potential
That visceral experience is thought something anyone forgets. So, you know, keep at it, republicans. Thank you, my friend. And thanks to you at home for joining us this evening. So Donald Trumps fourth criminal indictment, number four, appears to be days away. Nbc news is now reporting that Fulton County District Attorney fani willis is expected to present her case to the grand jury next week. And we know that d. A. Willis has been investigating trumps efforts toti overturn the 2020 election in georgia, and her investigation appears to have quite a bit in common with the federal case being brought by special counsel jack smith in washington, d. C. But the case in georgia may prove to be different from jack myths case in one very meaningful way. That, we need and to go back to 1979 when the City Of Atlanta was experiencing an unprecedented wave of crime. Here was nbc nightly news in august of that year. During the First Six Months of this year crime in atlanta was up 30 . Robbery and ag