Investigating efforts by former President Trump and his top allies to try to overturn the 2020 election, that grand jury has finished meeting for the day. The big question, will we learn in the next few minutes or hours if the grand jury here in washington, d. C. Has, in fact, indicted donald trump or anyone else involved in the plot to overturn the election. This is the third criminal indictment against the twice impeached former president of the United States and current frontrunner by far for the republican president ial nomination. There is quite a bit that we just dont know and it is unclear when or if the Federal Grand Jury here in d. C. Has even voted. But based upon what we have reported over the last three years, Potential Chargesn Special Counsel jack smiths his allies efforts to pressure state Election Officials and their disinformation about the election creating fake slates of State Electors and potentially inciting the deadly capitol insurrection among other potential cha
subpoena power. they don t have the same sort of hurdles that a congressional subpoena would say. thank you if you could send me to jail, you could kick rocks. they have the power at the doj. so you have a lot more that i would expect to see to buttress what we ve already seen from january 6. so, jamie gangel, deprivation of rights. that is about an attempt of taking away the voting rights of individuals. let s talk about the trump pressure campaign on state election officials in that context. to nullify people s vote who voted legally and cleanly and fairly for his rival joe biden. perhaps this is best illustrated in his infamous phone call with the secretary of state of georgia which biden won very narrowly, with brad raffensperger, when trump asked him to find enough votes to flip georgia from biden to trump. take a listen. so, look, all i want to do is
dna but perhaps it is not his or a valid reason as to why it is there. there is a assortment of arguments to challenge the evidence to show it was not their client who did this. we re aways away from that and this will develop and we ll learn more as it goes forward. thank you, joe. just in cnn, an update on a different 2020 related investigation, the michigan attorney general has brought criminal charges against two prominent republicans officer their aedge willed roles in the plot to access and seize voting machines across the state of michigan. let s go jessica schneider who is covering this for us. who are the defendants in this case. we ve been tracking the developments out of michigan and the two defendants most recently caught up in being charged with these plots as part of what the plots to overturn the 2020 election, the latest charges coming against two prominent republicans in the state of michigan. one of them matthew deperno, the