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
With more than a dozen of his closest allies. That is according to some news accounts. An it this come though thafternoon. The grand jury had heard from half of ten witnesses expected to testify in this case at this stage. Among those witnesses, former Georgia State representative bee wen. Present for the 2020 hearing where Rudy Giuliani pedalled false election claims an urged legislators to appoint a slate of fake trump electors. Two other witnesses who were expected to testify tomorrow have been called in as well. They include journalist george chidi, who stumbled upon a december 14th, 2020 meeting of Fake Electors, as well as Former Georgia Lieutenant Governor jeff duncan, hes a republican who has been openly critical of trumps baseless claims of fraud in the state of georgia. Signs a potential end game in fani williss Criminal Investigation into the expresident and his allies is where we begin today with our favorite reporters and friends. Former Top Justice Department official, ou
but even if the threat is over and it s not at all clear that saturday s turn around was, in fact, the end, what did the flash of descent do to russia itself, not the government or security services but the people. what message did russians get over the weekend? what did they see when yevgeny prigozhin s tanks move toward the capital? what did they feel when his troops reportedly shot down several russian helicopters? that s according to ukraine s air force. what did they hear when vladimir putin called prigozhin a traitor and compared his threat to 1917. we re going to ask masha gessen of the new york. the russia public saw something extraordinary, a choice, it will something that changes russia even if it doesn t alter putin s control in the short term. let s get our reporting and the news from russian tv that vladimir putin will speak tonight. joining me now from moscow is nbc news chief international correspondent keir simmons. so keir, this news that he s going to speak,
testimony to special counsel jack smith as his probe into january 6th zooms ahead. exclusive reporting from nbc news s julia ainsley says this, quote, about half a dozen secret service agents have testified before the grand jury that will decide whether or not to indict former president donald trump for his alleged role in the january 6th 2021 riot at the capitol, and efforts to interfere in the peaceful transfer of the presidency. that s according to two sources familiar with their testimony. roughly five or six acts have appeared in compliance with subpoenas they received. while it s unclear what testimony they provided, we do know that trump s secret service agents are very much in a position to corroborate some of the most stunning testimony of the star witness of the january 6th select committee. the meadows aide who pulled back the curtain on the inner workings and private conversations of the trump-directed coup plot. we are talking about cassidy hutchinson. hear is s
our calendars. yes ought to use a pencil, not a pen. it s monday, august 14th, it s a little less than two months from right now, and that is the day that judge aileen cannon has set for the trial of donald j. trump in the case having to do with classified documents, the legally and dangerously illegally and dangerously kept by him at a mar-a-lago. relatively speaking, that s soon, perhaps surprising given judge cannon s history of rulings considering to be favor to believe the disgraced ex-president who apointed her. but things get murky. the date august 14th is subject to delay, maybe delay after delay. in addition to what one would normally expect, illegal tactics, on one side to drag things out, there is another complicating factor, and that is complexities having to do with the classified material itself and something called the classified information procedures act. as we said, we re using pencils at this point, not pens. our experts will explain all of it in greater