Sources telling cnn Fulton County investigators now have emails and Text Messages that directly connect members of trumps legal team to the breach of a Voting System in rural coffey county. This new development coming as District Attorney fani willis prepares to present the case to a grand jury. Shes expected to seek an indictment of more than a dozen people as early asuesday. And that means this week, a former u. S. President could be facing criminal charges in four u. S. Jurisdictions. We are covering all the latest developments in this, from the legal and investigative angles to this weeks grand jury proceedings. We begin with Zachary Cohen, who helped break this reporting. Start with walking us through how significant this is, this evidence linking members of trumps legal team to the breach of a Voting System. Reporter yeah, jessica. These Text Messages really add to a growing body of evidence that links directly trumps lawyers and legal team to the breach of a Voting System in Cof
important point about democrats. it s not a slam dunk for them by any means if it s trump. that is going to be a tight race no matter what. doug, i want to ask if you agree with maria s assessment about trump politically. i do think you have to draw it to the primary and then to a general election. but as a republican, i know there s listen, republican voters i m talking to in iowa, a lot have trump fatigue, but they want somebody who can win. i think we see a few things. an immediately term, that rallying of support that maria mentioned, the short term, which is a boost in his poll numbers and a solidifying of intensity. part of that is all of this bizarrely re-enforced donald trump s core message, the system is rig. that s what he said on day one, what he continues to say. this sort of becomes evidence of that. as you have his message being re-enforced by what s happening to him, you also bizarrely have it re-enforced by his republican opponents who by and large aren t critical o
stages of the russian investigation is now on the president s desk. the president gets to decide if this goes public quickly in the short-term. what kind of pressure do you think he faces here? okay. normal political standards, john, i think it s very difficult for him not to release the memo. we saw it voted out unanimously from the house intelligence committee because if transparency is good for the goose, then transparency is theoretically good for the gander. but donald trump s calculation, we all knew donald trump was making the nunes memo public because it re-enforced what he thinks. right? he believes, and he has said this, he believes in a deep-state conspiracy embedded with the fbi has worked and continues to work to undermine him. the democratic memo presumably does not do that. and so it s a test of are you willing to do things that are not sort of directly supportive
to strike down health care reform and democrats seem to be worried that is going to happen. do you have a prediction, and how do you think the country should greet the potential striking down of health reform? what should we do next if that s what the supreme court does tomorrow? no, i don t have a prediction. i don t know what they ll do tomorrow. i have my own view that based on the legal precedence, it s clear that the affordable care act is constitutional. but whether or not five justices in the supreme court will decide that that s the case, i don t know. you know, i want to use this, we re going to have to see what happens on affordable care before we figure out what the right thing to do is by way of response. but we need to use this moment to reflect on the importance of the supreme court and who sits on the supreme court. it s not so long ago that we had the citizens united opinion and saw just this week see it re-enforced that the same five justices are saying, hey, corpora