Good morning, everyone. Its wednesday, august 2nd. A historic morning in u. S. Former President Trump is due in Court Tomorrow after a federal grand jury indicted him on four counts. This morning, city and federal Law Enforcement agencies are gearing up for that appearance. Also new this morning, a sense of trumps defense. His attorney tells cnn his clint is protected fully by the First Amendment. He was acting on the advice of counsel. We just heard from rudy ju giuliani. New details about the judge who will preside over this case. The judge has been randomly assigned. Hes overseen january 6ths defendants. The form e President Trumps 2024 rivals are weighing in on the charges. Their reactions ranging from condemning trump to condemning the Justice Department. Georgia, Fulton County sheriff said trump wont receive special treatment. Quote, it doesnt matter your status, well have mug shots ready for you, all of that this hour of cnn this morning starts right now. Third indictment. Fourt
co-con co-conspirators, any concerns whether they ll be held accountleable for their actions in battleground states like georgia? no, i d t. it s been difficult because trump never actually came to georgia, you know, there were the phone lls, the overt actions, people who were here and made misrepresentations, who lied to people in georgia they were rudy giuliani and john eastman, and sidney powell. all the undieted co-conspirators were the folks who were actually, they were like the soldiers that were sent into the battleground states to actually implement the plan so whether or not they get named at the federal level eventually i have no doubt with respect to the indictment here on the ground they re definitely a target. what about that potential
what the special grand jury asked with respect to rudy giuliani s presentation before the georgia s state senate. that s what they were interested in. so i m going to go and i m going to tell the truth. can you tell people what were your impressions of giuliani and his presentation in the moment back in december of 2020? yeah, i have to tell you it was very surreal. being there. because the presentation itself, it was false. it was almost presented like a small mini-trial. and it clearly had been it felt like it was part of some kind of mock trial we were going through and, you know, they had their witnesses that purportedly were telling the state legislators they could basically choose the electors and throw out the votes of millions and
electoral college so this isn t just about a couple of comments that donald trump made at a rally or rudy giuliani s claims. thank you for that reporting. we ll see you in a little bit. let s bring back in our experts. jack smith knew that was going to be the defense counsel s argument, that s why he gets to page 2, the defendant has every right to speak publicly about the election, even to claim falsely there had been fraud. it s kind of rare to anticipate a defense like that. the first thing. exactly. i think it s an important thing. here s my problem with first amendment defense. we have a broad first amendment right when it comes to political speech. but here s the problem the first amend mtd doesn t cover everything that may come out of
millions of georgians. i was sitting thinking this can t be real. but as we re sitting there and the president of the united states is tweeting and oan and newsmax is live-streaming it became very clear that this was part of the plan. at the federal level the federal indictment last night and georgia s one of the states that they talk about, with respect to what happened on the ground here it was the implementation of the plan at the highest levels to overturn the election. i want to bring in jen, my colleague sarah murray has covered the district attorney s case down in georgia. jen, good to see you again. i m curious in this federal indictment we see people like john eastman and rudy giuliani unnamed, unindicted co