fulton county district attorney fani willis in georgia and showing the nation what accountability looks like. former president trump is facing criminal charges for his attempts to subvert the 2020 election in the peach state. he has pleaded not guilty to 13 criminal charges. and that includes racketeering and conspiracy. the eyewitness is now facing political attacks for doing her job and standing up for the rule of law. georgia state senator colton moore spurred on by former president trump has launched an effort to investigate and potentially impeach her. he sent a letter to governor brian kemp accusing gia willis of targeting political opponents. asking for a special session to review her actions. he forcefully shot that idea down on thursday. in my mind a special session of the general assembly to and and run around this law is not feasible and it may ultimately prove to be an unconstitutional. the bottom line is that in the state of georgia as long as i am governor we
they re sociopaths and pretty big ones. chilling new details. evidence never broadcast before. a letter, hinting at secrets too dark to imagine. this is so outside of the norm something is going on in that house. did they kill in cold blood or in crippling fear? oh man it was gut-wrenching. i wanted to bust the door down. they spoke the truth about what had happened. hear from the brothers incels. people were afraid of him. let s go through this bit by bit. there was no way he was gonna let this secret get out. silence destroyed our whole family. here it was the shining symbol of their success. here, finally, an address worthy of their long struggle their amazing rise. beverly hills, california. beverly hills emergency. careful what you wish for. someone killed my parents! 28 years later it s still the case that has the power to shock. it s beverly hills. it s the movie business. it s kids killing their parents. what possessed
currently qualified to hold the office of president of the united states, or any elected office in the country for that matter? to start, let s go back 155 years to july 9th, 1868, went two years after passing the senate, the 14th amendment to the constitution is ratified. and within it, section three reads, quote, no person shall be a senator or representative in congress, or-elect or, or vice president, or vice president, or hold any office, civil or military, under the united states or under any state, who having previously taken an oath to support the constitution of the u.s. shall have engaged in insurrection or rebellion against the same, or given aid or comfort to the enemies thereof. donald trump having incited an insurrection and having tried to overturn the results of a free and fair election, in violation of the constitution of the united states, is now constitutionally ineligible to be president again. that seems pretty straightforward if you read your constitutio
on its face, a hearing this week that donald trump s former chief of staff mark meadows, product around what might sound like a sideshow legal issue compared to the larger problems facing the former president. he wants to move his case from state, to federal court. but we learned from his nearly four hours of questioning, it has implications far beyond a potential change of a new first trial. in addition to giving us the first sense of where the argument may be for a number of trump s other coconspirators, of which there are many. the testimony was another flashing warning sign of what a second trump term could look like. i mean, let s zero in on the key defense we heard from mark meadows. he argued that the allegations outlined in the indictment, you know, the unrelenting pursuit of baseless claims of election fraud, the pressure campaign and church officials to find votes? the conspiratorial behavior to keep trump in power? he says all of that was, quote, part of my role as
let s bring in barbara mcquade along with greg bluestein, msnbc political contributor for the atlanta journal-constitution. and author of flood, how georgia turned purple and broke the monopoly on republican power. greg, if you will, start us off. i mentioned the former president will be showing up. the arraignment will still go forward. what can we expect? in georgia defendants have the right to waive their arraignments. it s no surprise that at least a dozen of the co-defendants have already done so. that means they re gonna be bypassing with a packed courtroom, tv cameras rolling, they re bypassing logistics. it s not a huge surprise. what happens now as it ramps up the next phase of litigation. which is already underway. there s defendants who are trying to speed up trial, others that are trying to slow the trial down. there are these five that are trying to remove the case to the federal court. what we know now is that donald trump and his litigation strategy revolve