denied the election equipment had been accessed until security footage approved otherwise. and evidence now shows latham communicated with misty hampton about getting access to the office. you see on the surveillance video they spend hours inside this restricted room in the elections office. reporter: one of those inside the room works for sullivan strickler. he was not indicted and in a statement to cnn, sullivan strickler said the firm was directed by the attorneys who hired them to obtain access to certain data and distribute it to certain individuals and, quote, the firm had no reason to believe these attorneys would ask or direct sullivan strickler to do anything either improper or illegal. ultimately they were able to basically take an entire copy of the voting system with the idea that it would be used too, you
has now been criminally indicted in georgia for allegedly trying to overturn the election in 2020. this is his fourth indictment. the fulton county district attorney also charged 18 co-defendants along with the former president including former white house chief of staff mark meadows, trump attorneys rudy giuliani, sidney powell, john eastman and others. trump is accused of being the head of a criminal enterprise and racketeering is one of the 13 charges against him. tonight we take a close look at exactly what mr. trump had his allies did in georgia in the weeks after the election. cnn s sara murray lays out details of the investigation into the former president and the most serious charges he s now facing. breaking news into cnn this hour. prosecutors in georgia have opened a criminal invest investigation into former president trump. why? because of his january phone call to the georgia secretary of state. the former president as tempts to influence the administration of th
trump campaign had told him. because the president s lawsuit contesting the georgia election has not been decided or even heard, we held this meeting to preserve his rights. add we not held the meeting, his lawsuit would effectively be mooted. schaefer s attorneys said he broke no laws and and was following legal advice when he cast a, quote, contingent ballot for trump. i ve never been thrown out of a meeting in a public legislative space. that s unheard of. you know, i wasn t being disruptive. they didn t have a good reason to do it. there are no such things as secret meetings at the state capitol. like, that s just not how things work. i think they were trying to hide something, at least at first. reporter: schaefer s attorney told cnn that his client did not try to keep things secret. but that claim is contradicted by an email the fake electors
there are ten ways to demonstrate that this election was stolen, that the votes were phony, that there were a lot of them, dead people, felons, phony ballots reporter: and at the last hearing where giuliani appeared on december 30th, the senate subcommittee released a report with their findings. the first stating, quote, the november 3rd, 2020, election was chaotic and the results cannot be trusted. that basically regurgitated a lot of the conspiracy theories about the vote count in georgia without actually investigating any of those claims and that report ended up being cited by the trump campaign and many others in their pushes to invalidate election results elsewhere. reporter: the report comes out, what kind of weight did that carry? it had none. but, again, that really wasn t the point. reporter: the day after the indictment was released,
january 6th, according to a cnn tally. donald trump stopped caring about his country the moment he started lying that election. the conspiracy theories that literally seeded the beginnings and endings of january 6th, in my personal opinion, was a direct attack against democracy itself. the election lies and conspiracy theories may have reached their apex on january 6th, but even now more than two years later, donald trump refuses to acknowledge the 2020 election results. it was a rigged election. i ran twice, i won twice. and still can t accept his loss in georgia. we have elections that were horrible. if you look at what happened in atlanta, millions of votes, and all you have to do is take a look at government cameras. even as fulton county district attorney fani willis indicted donald trump and 18 others named in a 41-count conspiracy to overturn biden s 2020 victory. every individual charged in