A postelection trial in the Georgia Elections case, and that could actually happen. Well have expert legal analysis for you straight ahead. Meanwhile, a codefendant in that case is taking a different approach. Well explain the strategy for trumps former Chief Of Staff, mark meadows. Meanwhile, President Joe Biden was on the road yesterday talking about everything but the latest indictment for his predecessor. Well show you what he was focused on instead. Good morning and welcome to Way Too Early on this wednesday, august 16th. Im jonathan lemire. Thanks for starting your day with us. The clock has begun on the tenday windowt that former President Trump and his 18 codefendants have to voluntarily turn themselves in. Fulton County District attorney fani willis announced a sweeping Election Interference indictment on monday night and gave everyone charged until august 25th to surrender to authorities. If and when they appear theyll do so at the Fulton County jail in atlanta for potential
american public, in public officials and voters alike that they can? i have to believe they can. that was a really horrible strike zone. i have faith in the american people that each generation in some ways they re tasked we re tasked in some ways to secure democracy. it s a difficult moment. we have to ask ourselves will we rise to the challenge. and i think in asking the question itself we re priming ourselves to take on the responsibility that is before us, but we will see. we will see. it s a difficult time. so, eddie, are you heartened at all by republicans like kemp and raffensperger going above and beyond to push back against trump s false claims. he s provided no evidence of this voter fraud. what is your read on there because it does seem to me they re pretty lonely voices out there among a sea of republicans. they are. but i think raffensperger s point either you believe in a law and constitution or you
don t. i don t really have a lot of faith that the fever dream will break. it s in some ways we have to stop coddling these folks and simply say either you re on the side of the constitution and rule of law or you re not, just to echo raffensperger. i can t believe i m echoing the former secretary of state of georgia at this moment. well, that s where we are right now. also we shouldn t lose sight of some of the regular people who have been impacted by all this. we ve been chronicling those poll workers in georgia who received such hate and terrible racism and threats of violence because they were unfairly maligned by trump, giuliani, and others. it there s real concern about elections this time around state officials are going to have a hard time getting workers, getting volunteers to do these jobs, jobs so essential to our democracy because of further threats of violence, violence frankly is seemingly becoming more central to our political