Jenna Ellis, a former attorney for Donald Trump, became the latest to surrender to authorities in Fulton County Wednesday as part of the sweeping racketeering indictment accusing the former president and associates of attempting to subvert the 2020 election.
i want to bring in nbc s vaughn hillyard live in atlanta. nbc s dasha burns is in milwaukee, and carol lamb is a former federal prosecutor and msnbc legal analyst, so vaughn, it s already been a busy day. what have we seen and heard? reporter: number five and six, the defendants have now gone into the fulton county jail to officially surrender and go through their booking process. that would include the likes of kenneth chesebro, one of trump s attorneys, one that is alleged in the georgia indictment to have come up with the fake elector scheme and put it into action in multiple states including in georgia, as well as ray smith iii, who is the attorney in georgia who represented the trump campaign in multiple lawsuits on their behalf in the state of georgia. you said the name number 7. rudy giuliani is in georgia, flew from new york to atlanta here this morning.
it was very striking she was defending her work, she was defending her investigation, she was defending her team s work in all of this and really kind of defending the 2 1/2 years they d all spent covering this against those claims from donald trump. rachel? blayne, thank you for that. this is this is obviously a developing story as we continue to absorb these various 41 counts and the stories behind them, i m struck. i want to go to our friend chris hayes who s still with us about the specific charges that are up that are being faced by a number of trump lawyers and top advisers. chris, i m looking at, for example, janet ellis, trump lawyer she s charged under rico like everyone else is. she s charged under one other count that includes giuliani, eastman, ray smith iii. which is essentially importuning