plotting to shred. with us now is legal analyst and form er prosecutor ellie williams. i want to start with you. i want to focus on what s different this morning than existed yesterday. now we have this georgia case, and we have a new charge within this georgia case than we have seen before. racketeering, rico, what does that mean and why is it significant? sure, when people hear rico they think of mafia, criminal enterprise organizations. but it s actually a far broader law than that, particularly in georgia. in order to be charged with racketeering, prosecutors will allege a criminal enterprise that engages in a series of acts all toward one criminal goal. now each of those acts doesn t themselves have to be crimes, but they are sort of helping to further the conspiracy. what the state of georgia says here is that the trump and other
different from the other arraignments trump has gone through? reporter: it s going to look different than what we have seen at the federal level. we have seen a few now with the former president, but there he was processed. he had his initial appearance and arraignment in one fell swoop. here in georgia, he and all the other defendants have until next friday to surrender. typically that s done to the fulton county sheriffs office. as part of that, there s usually a mug shot and fingerprints, but given the form er president s status, his secret service protection, it s likely they may negotiate something a little different for him. and then the initial appearance, that date is up to the judge. it could be days, weeks, potentially months before we see that initial appearance by the former president or any of the other defendants. so let s talk about mark meadows for a second. meadows being trump s former white house chief of staff. he was not named a coconspirator
mccabe and paula reid. just play one on tv. so talk about the back and forth in the filings between the special counsel and the trump legal team. clearly, they are very far apart on exactly what any protective order should cover. you don t want defendants share ing sensitive information that they learn in the course of preparing for trial, but here they are extraordinary circumstances. we know the former president often goes on social media to share things prosecutors have expressed concern about how this could impact witnesses and other people in this case. now prosecutors want a very broad protective order. they want this to be restrictive. they laid out their reasons for why. the form er president s lawyers are asking for something more senator row. they are saying this should be limited to the most sensitive information. they point to the fact that it s what been applied.
principal leaders will follow the law. any questions about the matter will have to be answered by the filings made in the courtroom. the form er and paula reid ad evan peres is there. what s the reaction from the former president and his allies? of course they were not worried about this. they were bracing for this. they were waiting to see what the charges were. former president trump was saying he was the one who was indicted there. they didn t say his names or initials. he was lashing out about it. it took quite some time clearly as we ve seen how this has
one of the employees, trump s valet, walt nauta, was previously charged with trump. now, a new character in the story is mar-a-lago property manager, carlos d.oliveira. he was charged in yesterday s indictment. it describes when nauta and de oliveira walked with a flashlight at a dark tunnel at mar-a-lago to scope out a room where classified documents were being watched by security cameras. de oliveira allegedly told another employee the boss wanted that security footage deleted. another meeting at trump s property in bedminster new jersey, the form er president showed off a document on military options for iran, shown to people doing a memoir for his