we ve got a similar set of circumstances? but also it tells us that what comes out of one case could likely inform the other, especially as we go through the discovery processes. but are the two cases connected at all? that s what prosecutors believe. and honestly, they deal with a lot of the same events. so, i would say yes. omar jimenez, appreciate it. we ll be right back. they are more news ahead.
being there. he s not gonna get it dismissed. giuliani, on the other hand, i don t think that he can say what he was doing was in further it s of some kind of official role with the president. that s the bar, essentially? that is really the low bar for removal. from there, it is still fani willis s team that is going to be prosecuting that case, in that courtroom. it doesn t turn into a federal prosecution, it is still a state prosecution. just a little bit down the street, at the federal courthouse. if there was ever a case that ought to be transferred, if the statutes gonna mean anything, the case involving a former president would have to be the case, right? if this case can t be transferred, i don t know that there would ever be a case that will be transferring out of. if fani willis is still prosecuting, it from a legal standpoint, from a jury standpoint, what s the benefit for the former president and, giuliani and these others? for one thing, the jury pool will be much
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have to vote to defend democracy. i don t know had a message that any differently. but it s way too close. how strong is the former, harry, former president s grip on the republican party. yeah, you, know we spoke six months ago, what we saw was a two man race for the republican nomination. donald trump and ron desantis, basically, within the margin of error of each other. that s what quinnipiac music found by only single digits over the florida governor. look where we are today. that lead has expanded to nearly 40 percentage points. it seems that trump is certainly not getting weaker by the day with all the indictments that are coming down, if anything, arguably, in the primary, he s becoming stronger. and you would be very hard-pressed to find any poll at this point, in which donald trump is not commanding a majority of the vote, at least in the polling for the republican primary. congressman, i don t know how much of that, the more people see of ronda santas, the less they l
organization act. it s a charge whose federal version has been made famous in tv and film, ironically, but one of the 19 defendants, rudy giuliani, who used it as a u. s. district attorney against the new york mob and others in the 19 80s. jason carroll has more about it. this is the 11th rico indictment the racketeer influenced and corrupt organizations act, rico for short, was originally passed in 1970. as a tool to help wipe out organized crime. the verdict was like a bullet, puncturing john gadi s longtime image of invincibility from the law. at the time, it was dubbed the trial of the century. the u.s. versus john gotti. the boss of the gambino crime family was found guilty today, on all 13 counts of murder and racketeering. in the early 90s, prosecutors took down gotti, and charged him with racketeering, extortion, and murder. the law also used to take down the family, and mafia underlings throughout organized crime. rico laws allowed prosecutors to connect multip