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this. zak, walk us through what s in the documents. these are documents from the former accounting firm. they do show new details about who was paying trump s various properties for things like apartments and hotel rooms and rooms room service while he was in the white house. normally a president divests themselves once they are elected and they enter office. trump refused to do that for this reason one of the biggest payments we saw in these documents was there was 20 countries where they came from. the biggest total came from china where five point $5 million was paid to various trump properties in las vegas, washington d.c. and new york. within that china, group the biggest contributor of payments there was a state owned bank that was a tenant of trump s for several years in trump tower in new york. look, the reason this is concerning and the reason it s written in the constitution as something a president should do is because if you re right
brought you here on the source last week regarding how giuliani went to mar-a-lago on what appeared to be a fruitless mission a few months ago to ask trump to help pay for his legal bills. it s something that didn t work out. we have these and more news on giuliani tonight. for that, i want to go to cnn s paula reid, who is live outside the fulton county jail. paula, you have this breaking news on rudy giuliani. we have not seen him get at the courthouse. what are you hearing from your sources? we expect, we could see him tomorrow, kaitlan, because we have learned that giuliani is scheduled to meet with the district attorney here in fulton county tomorrow. our colleague zak cohen and i have learned that giuliani will travel to georgia tomorrow, with bernie kerik. he is of course the former new york police commissioner. he is not a lawyer. he s also an unindicted coconspirator in this case. but he is a longtime friend of rudy giuliani and he s been helping him try to find a lawyer
indictment starts naming things, preceding the 2020 election. there are days that go all the way to 2022 in some of the acts that are mentioned. so again, it is interesting because they really laid out a timeline that spans almost two years. you know, i am wondering, first of all, is this going to be the same? if this judge will still be the judge at the end of this, by the way, and also the conversations surrounding kaitlan as we look to unpack the rest of this and continue to analyze it. who is not, here who are these coconspirators that were unindicted? who might be shaking in their boots this evening wondering, well, is that going to change all of a sudden? 30 people is obviously no there. another aspect of this is of course the breach of voting systems, and cnn national security reporter zak cohen is outside the courthouse in atlanta has been covering this. zak, you and sarah murray broke
states, that there was this effort by the former president and his allies to try to overturn those elections and try to perhaps seat these fake electors. so, what we know, sources telling zak cohen, she sat with the smith team for several hours in recent weeks. and we know that, as you pointed out, they ve already talked to state officials in georgia, in nevada, in arizona. so, you can see that this is an effort by the special counsel to try to figure out exactly whether there s a crime here, that was committed in that effort, not only to overturn the state elections, but also to perhaps get access to voting machines. that s one of the things that jocelyn benson s office turned over. they turned over documents and evidence. that indicated there were people connected to rudy giuliani, who were trying to get access to voting machines in episodic county, in michigan. again, we don t know whether this is something that is going to end up being charged as a crime. it s something that is cle