Good evening everyone, and welcome back to our special breaking news coverage, im laura coates on this a stunning night in american history. As the 45th u. S. President s criminally indicted now for the fourth time. Donald trump now accused of leading a criminal enterprise to overturn the 2020 election in georgia. Im kaitlan collins, its not just trump. 18 others have been charged alongside him in this 41 count indictment tonight, including his former Chief Of Staff, mark meadows. His former attorney, Rudy Giuliani, and the onetime mayor of new york. All 19 defendants are facing racketeering charges. I mean, the indictment states all, quote, refused to accept that trump lost and they knowingly, and willfully, joined the conspiracy to unlawfully change the outcome of the election in favor of trump. Joining me now here in d. C. Is cnns evan perez, also the washington correspondent of the atlanta journalconstitution, tea mitchell and is back as well. Tour former house judiciary special co
Alleged coconspirators, but how will it fit in. Plus a live report from maui, where the governor says the death toll has risen and probably over 1,000 people could still be missing. Good evening. Thanks for joining us. We begin with two pieces of Breaking News tonight. The first, weve just learned of charges in texas connected with alleged threats against judge Tanya Chutkan, who has presided over the Subversion Trial of the former president. According to the court filing, the woman, who lives in alvin, texas, left a threatening, racist, and bigoted vase mail for judge chutkan on august 5th, saying, if trump doesnt get elected, were coming to kill you. You will be targeted personally, publicly, all of it. Authorities visited the woman on the 8th and according to the filing, she admitted to making the call from her home telephone. Breaking news as well in the georgia racketeering trial. A Federal District judge setting mark meadows request to move charges to Federal Court. This will be
Out if they want to differentiate themselves from donald trump. The way to do that is to actually go after donald trump. That would take some courage between now and then. Yeah, that is that wishful thinking, to expect these guys to show up with and nikki haley as. Well alicia menendez, great to see you as always. Enjoy the rest of your evening off. And we will see you tomorrow, my friend. Thanks, ayman mohyeldin. Good evening, and welcome to ayman. Tonight, new developments in the Georgia Election case. Our first indication of when trump might surrender to authorities. And as trump always push to move that case to Federal Court, legal experts are actually saying that would be a huge mistake. One of them, former Deputy Attorney general joins us live to explain why. And, in a landmark victory, 16 young people sued The State Of Montana over the climate, and guess what . The planet won. Im ayman, lets get started. But first, we want to begin with some Breaking News on Hurricane Hilary. Th
Week of september, fifth right after labor day. Meanwhile, a judge will hear mark meadows request to moves child out of georgia tsais or sue federal court. That core data is now set for august 28th. Also this, evening we are learning more from a new legal filing about what special counsel jack smith was looking for in Donald Trumps twitter account. Earlier this, year smith got a Search Warrant to access a whole range of information from trumps account, including direct messages, draft, with and location data. The former president is now, facing i want you to think, about this a total of 91 separate Felony Charges after separate indictments. His republican backers, claim all of these charges are just the result of corruption and conspiracies against trump, but please remember, those charges, many one charges represent the work of multiple grand juries, which are made up of every day americans. There are separate judges, prosecutors, and investigators, not the socalled deep state. No sur
The georgia case is for a lot of these we need translators, former prosecutors. What fani willis charged was the clearest thing we all saw with our own eyes. And i had this conversation in the 8 00 hour. What trump told his voters his first year as president in 2017 from a podium was dont believe what you see, dont believe what you hear, only believe me. And what fani willis indicted yesterday just blows that out of the water. In state court we could see with our own eyes. And my understanding again, youre the lawyer in these conversations was that if this, then that. So if this criminal enterprise with us corrupt in nature and all in pursuance of a crime, then all of these acts were a part of it and all these people were a part of it. From the outside having worked in politics, thats what it looked like to me. So, to read that narrative is what made that indictment, the fourth in just a few short months, different from the others. I agree. I think you put that very well. Sometimes we