reporter: prosecutors in georgia have open a criminal investigation. reporter: investigation into former president trump because it is generally phone call to the georgia secretary of date. reporter: he tends to include the ministration of the 2020 georgia general election. donald trump got beat by joe biden. there is no way we lost. that was a rigged election. he went on a warpath like a scolded child to do anything he could to overturn an election. they defrauded us out of a win. we are not going to forget it. i underestimated his willingness to push the envelope as far as he did. to just boldface lie again, and again, and again. reporter: three months after the election the district attorney in fulton county, georgia, funny willis, open an investigation into donald trump efforts to overturn the presidential election results. this is a criminal
former white house chief of staff. funny willis has told local officials of threats she has received. i have probably been called the n-word then most people hundred people combine. throughout the georgia investigation donald trump has denied wrongdoing. tromp has lashed out against fani willis calling her a racist. todd, thank you for this report. this note to our viewers. one of the tennessee african- american lawmakers expelled earlier this year. he just won his seat back in a special election and that s coming up 7:00 p.m. eastern. we will be right back with more. morning.
i don t. i can see jack smith wanted to say at the end of the day he wasn t influenced by anything exterior to his own investigative team, but i think that putting up the orange barriers in front of fulton county courthouse pretty much sends the signal that it is. there are now practical issues. you re right than he may not have done up a four butternut to be tripping over each other s statements before the grand jury if they don t coordinate. and for the district attorney, you saw there, funny willis, there was an attempt to disqualify her by the trump team. they cited comments that she s made in the past. do they have any merit when they re talking about this that she has played a political role in this at all? she s politically appointed official. her campaign did talk about trump that way. i don t think it ll get anywhere, but it s not completely, this is one of the few things that has a little bit going for it. i agree. i don t think number one, the judge found it was a
similar pattern that we saw on michigan, arizona, that we saw in pennsylvania, nevada, right up all the states there is pressure on republican leadership to do things that they just couldn t do. thankfully there were a lot a very principled republicans its turn up and said no. elise, let me switch gears here and ask you about mark meadows. the washington post reports that in a text message that have been obtained by federal prosecutors, meadows joked about the basis clean that large votes of were cast in the names of dead people. this text was sent just before days before meadows joined that infamous phone call between trump and brad raffensperger the, secretary of state of georgia where trump pressured him to quote find 11,780 votes. talk about how this evidence might impact funny willis s investigation and why it might be significant? it would be significant first of all, let me say first
this case, how has she been preparing for trial? your sense of what proceedings might look like. this investigation has gone on for more than two years. she has been preparing, as well as continuing her job as fulton county district attorney. she has other ongoing prosecutions in georgia right now. there is no expectation this would lead to a speedy trial. there will be even more motions once this expected indictment is lodged. it will be an attempt, probably, to remove this case to federal court. there could be months and months of pretrial legal wrangling. but funny willis has developed a team of about a dozen investigators including some who are experts in georgia s anti corruption laws. that of course points to the same thing the federal investigation points to. this could be broader than just the former president. this could be members of the in a circle, members of the fake electors here in georgia. one thing we know for sure,