Trumps efforts to overturn the 2020 election. Sources tell cnn that georgia prosecutors now have Text Messages and emails directly connecting trumps legal team to a Voting System breach in Coffee County, georgia in january 2021. This comes as the district investigating trump in georgia appears to be close to an indictment. Fulton County District attorney fani willis is expected to seek charges against more than a dozen people. If she brings charges against the former president , it would be the fourth indictment of trump since being voted out of office. We have coverage of these new developments. Isabel rosales is outside the Fulton County court where Security Preparations under way. And we have Cnns Zachary Cohen with these new developments. Zach, lets begin with you. Tell us more about what youre learning and this new evidence. Reporter fred, these are texts, our sources are telling us, are in the hands of the prosecutors in georgia. The Text Messages really lay out a plan that links
he s in on it, he would be the ultimate benefactor, so that, too, is part of the calculus in determining involvement, whether it be direct or indirect. i also wonder, renato, with upwards of 12 co-conspirators possibly facing indictment along with trump, are prosecutors positioning themselves to cut some sort of plea deals in order to get more evidence against the big fish? no question. you can see by willis approach, her team, what she s done is she has carefully tried to flip a majority of the fake electors. she s already got some cooperators in her pocket giving them immunity, understanding they re the small fish here. but, of course, indicting more people creates more potential cooperatives for the government. it s easy for donald trump to sit back and say, i m going to
atlanta with the trump campaign running an advertisement that included a baseless allegation that willis hid a relationship with a gang member that she was prosecuting. according to a group that tracks these political ads, the trump campaign spent nearly $80,000 running that ad up until today. willis has called that ad derogatory and false. isabelle row sal res, zachary cohen. let s talk more with lisa rand. renato maieriotti is a former federal prosecutor. good to see both of you. perhaps it was established early on after the georgia presidential votes were called for biden that top gop leadership in georgia was not going to bend the rules or break laws for trump. and then this weekend, a former
has worked for fulton d.a. for 25-plus years, he says this is big. how big, he says it s going to take a lot of time to sort through this information this week, especially since there s so much fraud being alleged in this case and so while many are anticipating a grand jury decision this week, rucker predicts it may not come down until the following week. there s a lot to sort through here. all eyes are on georgia, as you know. yeah, big time. so renato, with these prosecutors reportedly linking texts and emails to trump s legal team, in your view is this really big? what will it take to link trump s possible involvement, his influence or even direction? well, regardless of whether or not trump is on those text messages, the fact of the matter remains that this is part of
and then, renato, if trump is charged in georgia, it would be his fourth indictment, and i wonder what kind of coordination there might be. because if you look at the calendar of events involving all the other legal cases, expectations of trial, et cetera. is there some calculus as to which case would have the more favorable leverage over picking dates? it s very interesting. technically speaking, the prosecutors are all doing their own thing. obvisly there s four different judges who are going to be involved. they re going to have their own views, their own calenders. the defense is going to have their own agenda, what ty re going to want to push first. i m assuming they ll want to delay all four. i think ts prosecutors are going