federal prosecutors tanya miller, andrew weissmann and harry litman. and the defense speaks criminal defendant rudolph giuliani just said this. this is a ridiculous application of the racketeering statute. there s probably no one that knows it better than i do. probably some that nowadays well i was the first one to use it in white collar cases. but in major cases, like the bosti case and the milken case, this is not meant for election disputes. this is ridiculous what she is doing. andrew weissmann, your response to defendant giuliani. giuliani of all of the defendants of the major names that we know about, i think is in the most legal peril. not only is he on tape, and there are credible witnesses, and transcripts of his false statements to the georgia
this table. that is tonight s last word. the 11th hour with stephanie ruhle starts now. tonight, indictment number four for donald trump. the sweeping charges for the former president and his allies, who now have ten days to turn themselves in, and the push for mark meadows to move this to federal court. and rudy giuliani led the way on racketeering cases in the 80s. now, he is facing his own rico charge. neal katyal here is here on what it means for donald trump s former lawyer. then the legal consequences for the 2020 election seemingly not moving the needle for 2024. how this will all play out on the campaign trail as the 11th hour gets underway on this tuesday night good evening once again, i am stephanie ruhle. former president donald j trump now has ten days to surrender
on the head. i mean, there were all these conversations about how long this investigation was taking, how all encompassing it was. look, the district attorney could have seen this case in multiple different ways. this could have just been a case about that call to brad raffensperger. but what you saw here is sort of par for the course with fani willis. when she sees cases like this that she believes will fit that rico statute, she has talked about how much she likes it. the reason why she likes it, and she has said this over and over again, is because it allows jurors, it allows the community to see the full picture and full scope of criminal conduct. if you have multiple people committing multiple crimes in multiple jurisdictions, rico is really the way to go. and to bring a comprehensive indictment like the one she brought required her to comb through every single piece of evidence, talk to every witness
who had relevant information, come through tweets, emails, have battles in court about who s gonna comply with subpoenas. so i think absolutely this is the natural product of an investigation like that. and certainly i think it also assisted in how quickly she was able to present it to the regular grand jury. you don t get to present a case like this that quick unless you have spent a lot of time understanding of the peaks and valleys of the evidence of your case. andrew weissmann, the big glaring difference where these cases overlap is the different treatment of mark meadows, who doesn t exist in jack smith s case. and here he is as a defendant in fani willis s case. what is your theory of how this different treatment emerged in these two different cases? i think at the federal level my suspicion is it just did not think that they had enough to charge him, at least at this point.
we now have a four way race to a trial date in the for criminal prosecutions of donald trump. y alvin bragg, the first to indict donald trump, has a currently scheduled trial date of march 25th. district attorney bragg has said publicly he would not use that date to stand in the way of one of the other prosecutions of donald trump, which he recognized as possibly more urgent cases. today in florida, don trump s newest codefendant in the espionage an obstruction of justice case was finally arraigned. the two defendants facing criminal charges with donald trump in florida probably believe that there is virtually no chance of them being sentenced to prison even if found guilty in that case, because the judge in the case was appointed by donald trump.