country s rejection of donald trump in the 2020 election and became a critical battleground in the campaign by trump and his allies to overturn his defeat. a letter today from fulton county d.a. connie willis to judges and her fellow county officials saying in essence, clear your calendars. the new york times reports this, the georgia prosecutor leading an investigation into the former president and his allies has taken the unusual step of announcing remote workdays for most of her staff during the first three weeks of august. asking judges in the downtown atlanta courthouse not to schedule trials for part of that time, as she prepares to bring charges in the inquiry. the move suggests that the fulton county d.a. is expecting a grand jury to unseal indictments during that time period. thanks to court filings and reporting, we know that willis has cast a very wide net, with everyone from state gop officials to the ex-president himself, under scrutiny right now. the new york
so brazenly torched to admire his or her work. what is uncommon, though, is the arsonist not just being applauded, by the victims, upon his return to the scene of the crime, but being celebrated. today donald trump played the arsonist in the trump-run republican party showcased a version of this phenomenon. meeting separately with house and senate republicans this afternoon, three blocks from where trump was arraigned last year in connection with his efforts to overturn the 2020 election he lost, trump s trip to washington, d.c. today amounted to equal parts chest thumping, america bashing, and more bizarre incoherent ramblings about dating nancy pelosi and the gop convention host city. the press spin for today was that trump would engage in forward looking discussions of policy, but hannibal lecter kept coming up and his animosity to the department of justice. the immediate aftermath of his 34 felony count in new york and that period trump sought to harness the powers of con
fake electors, putting pressure on the secretary of state and state legislators, it was orchestrated in washington. so nicolle, this is a washington case, even though it ultimately will be charged in georgia. so tim, that brings me i mean, mark meadows travels to georgia. not clear why, but we know he had his hands all over it. lindsey graham is on the phone, he doesn t represent anyone in georgia. you ve got eastman in the state, twisting arms in legislature. you have rudy on the phone, telling them what to do. and you have trump telling the secretary of state to see if he can find him 11,780 votes. how are these people not under more these publicly, under more criminal scrutiny by doj? i think they are under scrutiny by doj. i think willis is a step ahead, she s looking at the same facts
working with him on this project received legal counsel from wisconsin lawyers suggesting that these were lawyers operating in some sort of official capacity. that is an argument that anybody who faces sort of more criminal scrutiny will be able to use. it is not a magical exculpatory thing but they re going to say, hey, we were just following the advice of lawyers. do you ever have to put ott the top of your bottom of your stories, i m not making this up. this really happened. things we discuss on a weekly basis, betsy, in 30 years of the career i would not have imagined to discuss with you. but i m grateful for you taking time to explain to our viewers. and she doesn t actually make stuff up. still ahead on velshi, we ll have more on the january 6
and then basically worked during the campaign. he had two jobs. he was a foreign policy adviser to trump and was at the center of all of the russia policy development for the campaign. he was also a lobbyist for the government of turkey. that lobbying is now under federal criminal scrutiny by bob muler. he has a lot of information about the way the trump campaign developed its policies on russia, policies that nobody can explain but for potential leverage that russia appears to have over the current president of the united states. robert costa, the president sure threw off a number of timed distractions over the past few days but what must be the mood inside the west wing? inside mar-a-lago, his winter retreat in florida where the president spent the weekend, i m told by several sources close to him that he was fuming about media coverage, that he s not getting enough credit for the economic turn the country has taken in some respects. he s continuing to push senators on capitol hi