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
Effective, and it is not safe. Thank you very much. That is all in on the thursday night. Alex wagner tonight starts right now. Good evening, alex. Thanks to athome for joining me this hour. This evening, weve got some fairly shocking news. President trump is asking the court to schedule one of his federal criminal trials before the november election, specifically, trump is requesting that maralago classify its documents case to begin on august 12th. That is correct. Donald trump asked for that trial to start just three months before the president ial election. Except, that request may not exactly be what it sounds like. It could very well be a game of 3d chess. It does not sound like something trump placed on that often, but play with me here. Trump pitching that august date could be a way of trying to block the other federal criminal case, the Special Counsels much more serious a federal Election Interference case from going to trial before the election. Yesterday we got that massive
In custody at this moment. I know this area very well, been number of years in atlanta, right across the highway from our atlanta bureau. So we have our correspondents on the scene there to tell us more as soon as they get it. But tragic way to start out wednesday. Sandra sometimes you get a whole lot of details up front and then quiet a bit, see what more we hear from the Atlanta Police department. Anyone in the area is asked to secure their buildings, shelterinplace, anyone not in that area, please stay away they are telling fox. They are going to continue to communicate through social media and we will update as soon as we get new information. John typically fairly safe area of atlanta, a number of years ago in a parking lot north of there, north of 14th street, this was a shooting, one person was killed, somebody was trying to steal a car. That was a number of years ago but dont normally hear about shootings in this area. Its a medical Office Building as we know it, connected with
the refugee process in an unprecedented way. we are a nation of immigrants and we are a nation of laws. and those laws provide that if one qualifies for humanitarian relief, then one has established the basis to remain in the united states, and if one has not, then one is to be removed. and that is exactly what is going to happen. we have to go, we are out of time. what is the rough cost to american taxpayers since the roughly 4 million people have come into the country illegally since january of 2021, as those people show up at community hospitals, as they enter the school system, get other government help. do you have a taxpayer cost? let me turn that questionp around a little bit. i m going to turn it around to match the question that an international partner asked of me. and the question that the international partner asked of me is what is the economic cost of your broken immigration system? since there are businesses around this country that are desperate for work