Legal experts tonight. Were discussing rico is a powerful charge because it is so broad. It is one of the broadest laws in the nation, the way georgia uses it, as the Washington Post explains, because prosecutors can weave together alleged crimes, violations of state and federal laws, activities in other states, the law as this d. A. Knows well, does not require a defendant to set foot in georgia to be charged. Why . Because rico is that broad, you do need, of course, something to happen in the state, in georgia, but you could be a person who stayed out of state. Maybe youre a busy coconspirator. Maybe youre a coward and send other people to do things for you. Under the Georgia State rico statute, a long as some people have committed these crimes of some kind inside the state, other people can be looped in. Thats one of the ways d. A. Willis came out with this strong, broad set of charges last night rounding up these 19 defendants. Theyre not all Household Names. I want to show you def
think mr. giuliani faces the greatest risk of legal exposure in this case. and because he is a lawyer. he used rico before. and it is embarrassing to the profession and as a former prosculator, i m embarrassed that a former prosecutor who used rico has now been charged with rico. really fascinating. you guys both of you, such experts here. giving us measured nonpartisan, thoughtful analysis of something that is going to be a big story and a big, important issue with us for a while. jay tom morgan and professor murray, thanks to both of you. our live coverage will continue throughout this hour. donald trump and these many faces you see, they have a deadline to voluntarily surrender. if they don t, if they play around, they will be issued arrest warrants and apprehended like anybody else. what that means next. ( ) rsv can be a dangerous virus.
allegedly, in order to, allegedly, steal the election. and one of them listed by itself is the harassment and intimidation of fulton county election worker ruby freeman. it s so important that she gets her own paragraph. her daughter s mentioned throughout. and you mentioned conway yes kanye west, published black voices for trump, then path for chicago and rudy giuliani. if you get the biggest person that harassed and intimidated, and that was donald trump. surely. with that january 2nd phone call he said that miss freeman was a professional vote scammer, but she was a known political operative, accused her of awarding 18,000 votes to joseph biden. and that she stuffed ballots. i believe she testified to this. having the president of united states say this about you, it caused all kinds of not to come
interference case, but we do have a little bit of a joint defense going on with walt nauta and carlos de oliveira. they re standing strong, shoulder to shoulder, but that s probably in large part because their fees are being paid by donald trump. when they start to drop like flies and they feel the coldness of being out on their own, would she then turn on rudy giuliani, on sidney powell? i want to emphasize once last thing before i stop. it s not just donald trump here. you also have people that have their own individual criminal exposure in this case, so they have to actually be watching their sixes to see whether or not someone is going to flip on them. with the 30 seconds or so we have left, what should we expect in the surrender process? so ari, next friday, august 25th, by 12:00, you have to turn yourself in, according to fani willis. if you don t do so, the arrest warrants that have already been issued in this case remain standing which also means if you re caught, you re go
on recollection, including can t believe you would say something like this, things like this, what do you mean, where is the evidence? you should know. things like that, or you know. a general disregard for the importance of actually backing up what you say with facts. and you know, then there was a discussion, we ll have it or whatever. i think it got to the point where the screaming was completely, completely out there. you have people walk in, it was late at night, had it been a long day. what they were proposing i thought was nuts. those are trump officials, trump appointees, white house officials. all of this, of course, is drawing on the jan 6 committee s work, also all the voice mails that giuliani was leaving for different officials. this happened in and outside of georgia and involved the elector fraud plot which is now part of