Unindicted co conspirators. What youre watching on your screen is the cover of that page of the indictment if we can put that up on the screen that would be great here. Now, with more we go back to Law Professor and Fox News Contributor Jonathan Turley. Jonathan im looking at that. If you look at the document that made it to the media talking about 10 specific indictments, how do you read it . Using your background as the great Law Professor, you are. Ah well, when youre talking about 10 of diamonds, it has that classic profile of racketeering case thats where willis really gained her fame as a local prosecutor, you often will have large numbers of people linked in a conspiracy to make out that case, you have to establish a pattern. Just a relatively few crimes are may predicate crime list. That is a list of crimes that are the basis for racketeering. I charges in this case they are likely to use crimes like fraud and combine all of these actors in a large sort of comprehensive conspir
atlanta prosecutors put up on their website earlier today about charging former president trump, they included issues involving 13 counts, including violation of anti racketeering laws and rico and conspiracy and false statements and asking a public official to violate their oath of office. how much of this is related to the you know, now infamous phone call? um i don t know. um but you know, we re still awaiting all of that, but i would imagine it s probably very close to what was put up on that website. i have a pretty strong inclination it ll look pretty similar. yeah i mean, what the judges looking at there on the screen, which happened earlier . that s an awful lot of pages . obviously you and i and tommy , we haven t. we haven t read it yet. um, these are going to be very serious charges. not in a federal court is brett baer said. that s you know, that s a different scenario for the president. i think this is going to be a very tough set. circumstances in in a very
it to create a conspiracy that allowed them to break all statues of limitations and go back 20 years to go after every dollar i had made not just in ukraine but in my life. and that s what hunter biden is worried about, because if you look at the laptop if they could appears the statute of limitations that have expired, you know they they will bring back all of the charges that the laptop basically has. the facts were convicting. and so it s a serious problem, and that s why every lowell smartly said. well, if we don t have immunity from everything that we don t have anything, we don t have a deal. and this appointment by david weiss, now special counsel. is a joke because they ve asked the fox to go into the chicken house farce. yeah. it s a sham. i mean, there was. this is the guy that gave him the sweetheart deal to begin with after four years. this is the guy that the irs whistleblowers identified as contradicting sworn testimony of the a g end of david weiss himself now that
that are the basis for racketeering. i charges in this case they are likely to use crimes like fraud and combine all of these actors in a large sort of comprehensive conspiracy. that s the most likely thing here. the problem is not that you know record. the rico statutes were designed for the mob, but they haven t used far beyond the mob. the problem is how they re being used. in this context. this is an election challenge in a state that we had a razor thin margin. roughly 11,000 votes is really nothing in a state of this size. and so during those days following the presidential election, the trump campaign was alleging they are the machines were manipulated that there are all types of wrongdoing. they lost those those claims, but the question
them that. i believe there s voter fraud. i want a recount, and so we have to see what the indictment alleges specifically to base this this conspiracy on it certainly is. i mean from from a legal standpoint, this this is rather unique and maybe , and in many ways historically unprecedented, as ted cruz said. but you re right when they were talking about historically how rico racketeering charges have come out. they ve been used against the mob. then you have the special counsel even in reaching back into laws designed to go after the ku klux klan and one has to look at this particular case and wonder, okay, um, i ve read the transcript. you ve read the transcript, professor. i read it multiple times and donald trump. it is a long transcript that phone call that went on for a long time. there s a lot of lawyers on that phone too. and i didn t hear one lawyer. speak up at any moment and say excuse me, mr president. this might be inappropriate to