18 others, including his then chief of staff, mark meadows, and his lawyer, rudy giuliani, have also been indicted. Mr trump has denied wrongdoing and has described the investigation as politically motivated. Its the fourth criminal case to be brought against him since he left office. Lets take a listen to what Fulton County District Attorney fani willis said a short time ago. The indictment alleges that rather than abide by georgia was Mike Whittall process for election challenges, defendants engaged in a Criminal Racketeering Enterprise to overturn georgias president ial election result. Subsequent to the indictment, as is the normal process in georgia law, The Grand Jury issued Arrest Warrants for those who are charged. I am giving the defendants the opportunity to voluntarily surrender no later than noon on friday the 25th day of august, 2023. Earlier, Donald Trumps campaign issued a statement. Lets speak now to sean dilley, our North America correspondent, live from washington, dc
Good afternoon. Hes running for the white house again next year, but now donald trump is facing a fourth set of criminal charges. This time hes accused of trying to overturn his defeat in the last president ial election in the state of georgia. The 13 counts against him include violating georgias law On Racketeering. He is also charged with conspiracy to commit forgery and with making false statements. He says the charges are politically motivated. From washington, sean dilley. Hello, maam. Thank you. This was the moment Fulton County judge Robert Mcburney approved the grand jury s decision to indict donald trump and 18 alleged conspirators On Racketeering charges the same laws used to persue mob bosses. Prosecutors say their investigation was in part prompted by this leaked call between the then president and georgias top election official, brad raffensperger. Among Donald Trumps co defendants, his former white house Chief Of Staff mark meadows and his former attorneys Rudy Giuliani a
Legal experts tonight. Were discussing rico is a powerful charge because it is so broad. It is one of the broadest laws in the nation, the way georgia uses it, as the Washington Post explains, because prosecutors can weave together alleged crimes, violations of state and federal laws, activities in other states, the law as this d. A. Knows well, does not require a defendant to set foot in georgia to be charged. Why . Because rico is that broad, you do need, of course, something to happen in the state, in georgia, but you could be a person who stayed out of state. Maybe youre a busy coconspirator. Maybe youre a coward and send other people to do things for you. Under the Georgia State rico statute, a long as some people have committed these crimes of some kind inside the state, other people can be looped in. Thats one of the ways d. A. Willis came out with this strong, broad set of charges last night rounding up these 19 defendants. Theyre not all Household Names. I want to show you def
[the starspangled banner] [the starspangled banner] [the starspangled banner] [the starspangled banner] [applause] will good morning and welcome to Fox And Friends weekend. On this saturday morning, march 2nd. Rachel we are already in march. Pete what feeling does marge bring about . Rachel in wisconsin spring is may. Will march is a great month. I was born in march. We will figure that out before the end of the show. It is theres a lot of march madness, the yards of march whatever that means but here is the thing, to her point about living in new jersey, march is an incredibly sad month in the north because you think winter should be over but it is not, in texas its a great month. We are on the way, its nice, its warm but up here it is a big tease month. Pete its just a continuation. A lot of teasers, didnt have to take it that way. Pete only two ways to take it. Television to uses. Sorry about that. Rachel we wont tease you anymore. House republicans are now revealing the transcript
Forecast. Christina inland especially. You can see the temperatures really heating up today. Some triple digits out toward concord and livermore and fairfield, but not over the entire bay area. San francisco, 70 degrees. We did have some hot temperatures up in the north bay for santa rosa. Now another hot day, as you have been hearing. But we will cool things off. So the heat advisory for tomorrow and then sunday, monday and tuesday, definitely bringing in some relief. But at least for tomorrow, we are tracking the microclimates out there. If you are heading to the coast, were not talking about any extreme heat. 60 to maybe the lower 70s. And we have some fog in the forecast as well. It is warming up around the bay upper 70s to the 80s and it will be hot inland. A heat advisory basically posted for the inland valleys up in portions of the north bay, east bay hills and the santa clara valley. This extends into saturday right on through saturday night. Air quality also impacted as well w