country s rejection of donald trump in the 2020 election and became a critical battleground in the campaign by trump and his allies to overturn his defeat. a letter today from fulton county d.a. connie willis to judges and her fellow county officials saying in essence, clear your calendars. the new york times reports this, the georgia prosecutor leading an investigation into the former president and his allies has taken the unusual step of announcing remote workdays for most of her staff during the first three weeks of august. asking judges in the downtown atlanta courthouse not to schedule trials for part of that time, as she prepares to bring charges in the inquiry. the move suggests that the fulton county d.a. is expecting a grand jury to unseal indictments during that time period. thanks to court filings and reporting, we know that willis has cast a very wide net, with everyone from state gop officials to the ex-president himself, under scrutiny right now. the new york
and his other trump investigation of false financial statements for which weisselberg had a front row seat. joining our conversation, the reverend al sharpton. mara and mary are back with us. mary, let me ask you about this. i feel like allen weisselberg doesn t always do what prosecutors hope he will do in the timeline they hope he will do it. but tell me about this strategy of timing, if you will. well, it s interesting,
let me read more from the reporting on specifically what conduct is under scrutiny here. the potential perjury charges for weisselberg stem from statements he made under oath during a 2020 interview with the office of the new york attorney general letitia james, who was conducting her own separate investigation into trump and his family business. it s not clear which part of the testimony raised red flags for prosecutors and ms. james or how bragg might prove that weisselberg made a false statement. it s clear that there is a lot going on under the surface that we don t see, both in the office of the attorney general and the office alvin bragg s office. i also feel, present company included, we have underestimated bragg s tenacity and long game before. what do you make of this? i think if, in fact, alvin bragg and his office is going after weisselberg, i think that
people saying that part of the correspondence between the d.a. and mr. weisselberg, his attorneys, was that they would like him to testify on threat of further prosecution. but that will come out that again, even after he served his time, 100 days at rite gers, he was pressured again. so that can make the jury worry about the credibility of mr. weisselberg, because they might think he s under duress. and so, you know, that is a calculus that mr. bragg and his office are making. we ll see what ends up happening. i would be very cautious if i were in that office. rev, you know alvin bragg.
of course, the other reason that testimony is interesting, we don t know what the perjury charges specifically are based around in weisselberg s testimony to letitia james, we don t know that yet. but i think the fact that the d.a. is interested in potentially prosecuting him based on those perjury charges suggests that there might be some offense taken to the system. in other words, if you re lying under oath or accused of lying under oath to another sitting elected official, that can really upset judges, prosecutors, and it it s like you re sticking your thumb in their face. so i think that may be at play. but the interesting thing here is that alvin bragg is not a political animal. a criticism of him in new york in that first year is that he wasn t political enough. so he s very meticulous and very cautious. so there is a lot that he knows