Oh, incredibly busy evening. Good morning to you, steve, ainsley and brian. And the former president is lashing out against the prosecution. He tells fox news digital, quote politically inspired indictment, which could have been brought close to three years ago, was tailored for placement right smack in the middle of my Political Campaign where i am leading all republicans. The former president and 18 others face various charges individually, including violation of oath by a public officer and filing spawls documents. All of the defendants have been charged with violating georgias racketeering law, which carries a maximum Prison Sentence of 20 years. In addition to the mr. Trump, the indicted defendants include his former white house Chief Of Staff mark meadows and some of his former attorneys, including Rudy Giuliani and sidney powell. The 98page indictment lists scott mccafe as the judge who will be presiding over the judge. Appointed by republican Governor Brian Kemp and joined the
Strike averted. San jose city workers. Unions have confirmed a historic agreement has been made with the city conference. Theresa joining us live from san jose with the very latest recent. Know. Well, theres a that we dont know right now, but we do know a lot from an email that we received Union Leaders. And weve got some video that we want to show you. They have been meeting the City Council Members behind closed doors starting early this morning about i was i mentioning, we did receive an email from those that were striking. They are, as you mention, calling this a historic agreement. Heres some of the details that were learning. They are saying that the agreement includes wage increases 6 in year. One 5 in year. 2 and a 3. 5 to 4 in year 3. It also includes increase from one to 8 weeks of paid family leave more competitive. Bilingual paid to better serve diverse residents and retention and recruitment improvements for critically understaffed Public Safety and Housing Development dev
The indictment follows a yearlong investigation, 75 witnesses and 98 pages. The Fulton County District Attorney. 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. Harris so in those 98 pages the indictment targets 19 defendants with a total of 41 charges. The former president faces 13 of those 41 charges himself. Prosecutors say they have various emails, texts, phone calls as evidence against all 19 plaintiffs. Trumps codefendants, the 18 others include some of his attorneys at the time and his former white house Chief Of Staff. The District Attorney says she hopes to go to trial in six months and try all 19 at the same time. Fox news contributor and legal expert Jonathan Turley says the two tiers of justice as plain as day. The contrast is extraordinary. Trump is being indicted for everything short of ripping a Mattress Label off. And
Accusing them of engaging in a criminal enterprise designed to overturn the will of georgia voter. The d. A. Wants to try all 19 defendants together at the same time. She wants to do it within six months and that puts this thing on a Collision Course with the primary schedule. Dana the president and legal team are seizing on that saying the charges are politically motivated. Chris christie is here with us. Jonathan turley on deck with legal analysis. In atlanta Jhonattan Seary is standing by for an update. Good morning to you, dana. Former President Trump is lashing out against prosecutors because of the timing of these indictments. Mr. Trump tells fox news digital quote, this politically inspired indictment which could have been brought close to three years ago was tail ored for placement with my Political Campaign where im leading all republicans. He has been indicted along with 18 others including former Chief Of Staff mark meadows and former trump attorneys Rudy Giuliani and sidney
We learn charges against alec baldwin could be refiled based On A New Forensic Report of the deadly movie set shooting. Following these major developing stories, all coming in to cnn news central. The clock is ticking, talks are happening behind the scenes. Behind the donald trump surrender, by next friday as until august 25th, until then to turn himself in on racketeering and conspiracy charges. His lawyers are the District Attorney team, the sprawling case as its known accuses trump and 18 others of criminally plotting to alter georges 2020 electric result Election Results to overturn them, no defendants have yet been booked at the jail, cnns Nick Valencia is outside of the courthouse where the grand jury voted this week, the turning and will not happen there. It will happen around the corner i suppose, tell us what we are learning about the details and how they are being worked out. Score mac former President Trump will be treated as everyone else, indicted which means being process