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
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