proceeding, to intimidate a witness, a mystery witness that would not yet know the identity of. they do not include one potential charge, the january 6th elect committee recommended when they concluded their year and a half long investigation, sprawling investigation to the former presidents conduct before january 6th, on january 6th, and what happened after. take a listen to members of the january 6th select committee had to say today and what charges potentially missing from that looming indictment. watch. it s hard to imagine a president being involved in more serious misconduct. not so thinly veiled threats of violence or just what donald trump does when, you know, the law catches up with him. what appears to perhaps be missing is the count on aiding and abetting, assisting, giving aiding comfort to insurrection. now, of course, inciting an insurrection is what the house impeached the former president
sounds like the way i mobsters my talk to someone. it s sort of inference and a little bit threatening and putting words in someone s mouth. but tell me how that connects to the actual potential charge of racketeering. absolutely. that call is the evidence that a prosecutor loves. that s evidence that can t wait to present to a jury. he calls it a perfect call. here we have the potential of racketeering charges, which is really provides the district attorney with the opportunity to paint a very broad picture of what happens here. the racketeering s draft statute in georgia is broad and allows the district attorney to bring in evidence from different parts, disparate crimes, and tell a narrative story of what she believed happens. how is it different what we think of is a conspiracy? it gives you a little bit
attempts to pressure state officials in georgia to overturn the result there. so there have been some reports about deprivation under color of law. people have been wondering what potential charge that could be. i think it has to relate to these attempts to overturn and pressure the state governments to overturn the election and potentially to certify false slates of electors. it shows why we haven t gotten news of an indictment yet this week. it looks like jack smith still has some loose ends to run down. something we did get toward the end of this week was we ve got a trial date now in the classified documents case. that is for may of next year. just a reminder, there s the manhattan d.a. hush money case. that trial is in january. i mean, this is a lot coming. it all happens to be in the middle of the election cycle.
we re learning about the potential charges here. the first one is a conspiracy to defraud or commit a crime against the united states. a conspiracy means two or more people, meeting of the minds to commit a crime. does not necessarily mean someone else will be charged along with donald trump. charges could come later or not at all. two or more people that refers to the broad effort to steal the 2020 election. the one you re talking about that is interesting here is deprivation of right. forget about the legalese, the important part two or more people getting together to i interfere with any right or privilege a person has under the constitution of the united states. as we sort of speculated yesterday, now it looks like we were right, this looks like it refers to the right of every person to cast a vote and to have that vote counted. and then the third potential charge that we re learning about is witness tampering, but that asterisk is there on purpose. we have to be careful here. ther
specifics. but in the broad sense of it if you re looking at what s out there potentially for donald trump to face, what are the potential charges and what could he face if he s convicted? so i have to say i m in the camp of tea leaf readers who think that you don t issue a statement like that if you are not thinking of charging and you re not thinking of charging the president. it doesn t make a whole lot of sense to me. on the other hand, she absolutely hasn t said that. it is a leap of faith and so we do have to wait to see what happens. the charges can be all sorts of things the biggest potential charge is a georgia rico charge. i think it is worth noting that people go to jailfor that. just think about the seriousness of a rico charge but also undermining an election is obviously an incredibly serious charge i do not think it is the case