it means corrupt organizations and there was a federal law and a lot of states including georgia have followed suit. essentially as a prosecutor, if you re going to charge rico, you have to the show the existence of a criminal enterprise, an organization committing a pattern of racketeering activity, meaning two or more connected crimes. so it could be tougher for prosecutors to show, but if you can, the advantage is you get to charge the whole case and explain the entire enterprise to the jury and the georgia rico law carries a mandatory minimum of five years in prison. that is more severe than the federal rico statute. do you think that is is what we ll see from her? i do think that based on all of the other indicators. yes. thank you. coming up, after years of dodging the question, what ron desantis is now saying that his chief rival still won t. why the florida governor is changing his tune, for now at
georgia, the department of justice, wherever the next indictment may come from, you have to back donald trump if you want to play his game. all right, doug hide and kate bed bedding fooemd, good to see you. great to be here. ahead, the foiled plot to try to assassinate volodymyr zelenskyy. how they caught the suspect red-handeded..
donald trump said you re too honest and he was approached by a gaggle of crock pot lawyers. that doesn t sound like a witness that will do any good for donald trump. let s turn to atlanta and do you expect this to be a sprawling case with many people charged or a more marrow indictment like the one that we saw last week. it is going to sprawl. i think that is quite clear. fani willis has been investigating this case for two and a half plus years. the special grand jury foreperson told us that they recommended the indictments of over a dozen people. that doesn t necessarily mean fani willis is going to follow that recommendation or that that the actual grand jury is going to do that. but all indications are that this will be a very broad indictment. and the wall street journal, it is interesting to see them report today that lawyers who have worked with fulton county district attorney fani willis in the past expect her to invoke georgia s rico ac. what does that mean.
that he may be inclined to disclose sensitive information to the public. so they want to protect his ability to do that. now his attorneys got this request late friday. they asked the judge for additional time to respond. she denied that request so they have until 5:00 this afternoon to respond. but this is a pretty tight time line. it is another example of how judge chut kan wants to move ths along quickly. thank you. well road closures are now in place around the fulton county courthouse in atlanta as security measure are put in place for a possible fourth trump indictment. prosecutors have been investigating the efforts to over turn the presidential election results in georgia. nick valencia is outside of the courthouse for us. when do we expect to learn about more possible indictments? sfl reporter: it could come at any day. and there are several indications that this sprawling and wide-ranging investigation
which has gone on more more than a year could be nearing the end. let me get out of the way. the orange barricades began around the fulton county courthouse last week and this morning metal barriers were added to block vehicle traffic. foot traffic is still open. but they are taking security here very, very seriously and in part because of the rhetoric from the former president. former president trump has called this investigation politically motivated. he s called the d.a. fani willis who is leading this investigation a racist and that has added to the security concerns. we have new information to share with you. this just into cnn moments ago, former lieutenant governor here in georgia jeff duncan has been asked or rather subpoenaed to appear before the fulton county grand jury and while he was lieutenant governor he was president of the georgia senate and the same senate that rudy giuliani spread election interference lie and conspiracies and he s been asked