country s rejection of donald trump in the 2020 election and became a critical battleground in the campaign by trump and his allies to overturn his defeat. a letter today from fulton county d.a. connie willis to judges and her fellow county officials saying in essence, clear your calendars. the new york times reports this, the georgia prosecutor leading an investigation into the former president and his allies has taken the unusual step of announcing remote workdays for most of her staff during the first three weeks of august. asking judges in the downtown atlanta courthouse not to schedule trials for part of that time, as she prepares to bring charges in the inquiry. the move suggests that the fulton county d.a. is expecting a grand jury to unseal indictments during that time period. thanks to court filings and reporting, we know that willis has cast a very wide net, with everyone from state gop officials to the ex-president himself, under scrutiny right now. the new york
illegal. you have bill barr as a potential witness saying yeah, i briefed the president that there were no suitcases of ballots. you also have the campaign, i remember testimony developed by the select committee that mr. stepien, who was running the trump campaign, had a memo written of all of the election conspiracies rudy was peddling that proved none of them were true. could the trump campaign manager and trump s attorney general become witnesses if the discovery process has to prove whether or not there were known falsities communicated about ruby and shea? absolutely. as you just stated, and we have all become armchair experts in defamation. you know, falsity is the key. the statements made have to have been false. and so that means that the plaintiffs are entitled to take discovery and entitled to obtain information, including through the testimony of people who might have that information, through the deposition process.
very closely at all of the specific allegations, found no evidence. and yet continued to spin this narrative of fraud in georgia, put pressure on brad raffensperger and state legislators and proposed this letter you just showed from jeffrey clark. people stepped forward to help facilitate the election, and the whole pattern is outrageous, because it s so starkly built on a lie. tim, do you i won t put words in your mouth. what do you expect attorney willis to do? where was the starkest evidence of criminality of your scrub in these events and actors? yeah, you can t understand what happened in georgia without looking at the national trump campaign and its advisers. this go all the way to the former president and his legal advisers. it goes to officials who worked on the trump campaign in washington, what they were doing in georgia, generating these
fake electors, putting pressure on the secretary of state and state legislators, it was orchestrated in washington. so nicolle, this is a washington case, even though it ultimately will be charged in georgia. so tim, that brings me i mean, mark meadows travels to georgia. not clear why, but we know he had his hands all over it. lindsey graham is on the phone, he doesn t represent anyone in georgia. you ve got eastman in the state, twisting arms in legislature. you have rudy on the phone, telling them what to do. and you have trump telling the secretary of state to see if he can find him 11,780 votes. how are these people not under more these publicly, under more criminal scrutiny by doj? i think they are under scrutiny by doj. i think willis is a step ahead, she s looking at the same facts
and his other trump investigation of false financial statements for which weisselberg had a front row seat. joining our conversation, the reverend al sharpton. mara and mary are back with us. mary, let me ask you about this. i feel like allen weisselberg doesn t always do what prosecutors hope he will do in the timeline they hope he will do it. but tell me about this strategy of timing, if you will. well, it s interesting,