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
Deadly u. S. Wildfire in a century. New questions are emerging about the Emergency Response there. A chaotic smashandgrab caught on camera but was anybody caught by police . Im john berman with kate baldwin and sarah sidner, we are the anchors of cnnCnn News Central which starts now. Welcome to unchartered territory once again. Right now a grand jury is meeting in georgia. And moments ago, we have now learned that former Georgia State senator is inside the courthouse right now to offer her grand jury testimony. Things are happening right now. Tomorrow, willis is expected to call two more witnesses to testify as shes laying out her case to charge a dozen people. Overnight reporting into cnn, willis has Text Messages and emails directly linking trumps inner circle to the breach of the Voting System in georgia which is part of this overall investigation right now. Paula reid is outside of the courthouse. What is the latest were learning about the State Senator who is now testifying and wh
process all along the way, mr. giuliani was on steve bannon s podcast on the 19th. then on the 22nd of december, talking about the machines, that s the key that will turn it all around. once we get access to the machines. to say that he had nothing to do with sidney powell s crack pot idea is belied by the facts. frank figliuzzi, i want to be sure that i don t press my nose too quickly against the glass to miss the bigger picture of all of this. the idea that chris krebs, lifelong republican, is fired, because he goes out and publicly announces that he has done his job and he has overseen the most corrupt election in u.s. history. and then trump s allies including his top campaign official, rudy giuliani, are the ones breaking into voting machines is off the charts
they re saying he had nothing to do with the breach and you cannot attach him to sidney powell s crack pot idea saying that he just admit this breach was a plan? and a crack pot one at that. yeah, it s never great for any defendant when other defendants start pointing fingers. when there s infighting amongst potential defendants, that typically means that one of them could very well cooperate against another or at least that they could have inconsistent defenses which is never good for, you know, any member of the defendant class on that side of the aisle, as it were. so that defense also appears to be rather weak sauce given the reporting, you know, with emails and messages from members of giuliani s team that certainly seem to indicate that the, quote/unquote, mayor was heavily
effectively without empowering a white house chief. it s clear he s trading one ineffeskffective unempowered ch for another one. donald trump has not learned the fundamentalle lesson of his fir two years. that is that there s a difference between campaigning and governing. john kelly has said what every reasonable person knows, which is that you cannot build a wall from sea to shining sea. it s a crack pot idea. everybody knows it. and yet the government is being held hostage to that notion. it s the kind of thing that a white house chief of staff should go in, close the door and tell the president, cut it out. you ve got to govern here. i m not sure that hasn t happened. but i think to your point, if you look at him on the foreign stage for example, where he cannot wait to get out of there and gets home, versus when he