Prosecute gangs or mafia crime families sums up the entire coup plot. Here is how District Attorney willis puts it last night. The indictment alleges that rather than abide by georgias Legal Process for election challenges, the defendants engaged in a Criminal Racketeering Enterprise to overturn georgias president ial election results. Now, her indictment of this Criminal Racketeering Enterprise begins with a very simple and clear statement, it goes like this. Quote, depth donald trump lost the United States president ial election held on november 3rd, 2020. Prosecutors allege that the entire coup plot was in service of reversing that one single, simple fact. They say that trump and his 18 codefendants along with 30 unindicted coconspirators, quote, constituted a criminal organization, whose members and associates engaged in various related criminal activities, including and not limited to false statements and writings, impersonating public officers, forgery, filing false documents, in
Good morning, everyone. Lets get things started with fife things to know for this wednesday, august 16th. There are new developments in Donald Trumps georgia indictment. Overnight we learned the form president is expected to be booked into jail at any point in the next nine i days. And were learning his dms on twitter were of great interest for the Special Counsel. New questions this morning about what caused wildfires on maui that are now blamed for 106 deaths. The Washington Post is report ing a downed power line likely caused that first fire on the island. Heres the video of that moment. The soldier that crossed into north korea, his mother is asking he be treated fairly. Oher attempted a 15 million shake dunn before he filed this petition. Cnn this morning starts right now. Heres where we start. New overnight, we know where donald trump will likely surrender in Fulton County, georgia, with just nine days left to turn himself in. The former president is expected to be arrested and b
Mounting charges all related to his work with trump after the 2020 election. Giuliani says his legal troubles have left him out of cash. And the death toll is rising in hawaii surpassing 100. President biden will travel to maui soon once his visit will not interrupt the Recovery Efforts on the ground. And the family from The Blind Side is pushing back on claims from retired nfl star michael oher that they withheld millions of dollars from him. They claim he would plant a negative story about them in the press unless they paid him 15 million. In just one month, messi has his team reaching new heights. He stored his ninth goal in six games after a victory over Philadelphia Union and miami now heads to the cup final. Hes good. Hes very good. Cnn this morning starts right now. I want to take my kids to miami just to go take them to see messi. You should use my Expert Analysis that i just gave you that hes good at soccer. Thank you for that, phil mattingly. This morning we are tracking seve
Welcome, everybody. Im neil cavuto. Glad to be back. My thanks to million colleagues for working so hard in my absence. Now to bryan llenas in fulton county, georgia with more on the fallout from that indictment that is having reverberations across the country. Bryan . Neil, good afternoon. No doubt this is the most wide ranging of the four indictments that former President Trump is facing. Of course, the grand jury late last night voting to indict the former president. 18 of his associates. The d. A. Here in fulton county, georgia, foni willis saying that they were operating as a criminal enterprise. Heres a snippet from that indictment. Defendants refused to accept that trump lost and they knowingly and willfully joined a Conspiracy Top unlawfully change the outcome of the election in favor of trump. Trump faces 13 criminal charges including a racketeering rico charge, which if guilty carries a fiveyear sentence, 25,000 fine or both. The other 18 defendants include his former chief o
Hes claiming that. Also tonight Breaking News on his former Chief Of Staff and current codefendant mark meadows who now warrants the trial moved to Federal Court and the latest from maui where President Biden is 34re7b8ging every federal asset needed and the need is enormous. We begin with the Breaking News in the wake of last nights rico indictment in georgia, the former president and 18 other, one of them former trump Chief Of Staff mark meadows filed papers late today asking to move the case to Federal Court. Rudy giuliani facing 13 counts said this afternoon hell seek to do the same. Well talk more in a moment about this and the case to be made for it with our legal experts and whether the former president might join in. Right now, though, he appears to be rushing head long into the past. Two years and seven months since leaving office four criminal indictments and 71 fell ni charges later donald trump says he can finally do it. Do what all his attorneys and motley cast of characte