fries and bag of chips. it s good to be mindful about what we eat. thank you. thank you. a jury reached a verdict in the trump organization tax fraud trial in new york. cara scanell has the details. what do you know? reporter: that s right. the jury returned a verdict, guilty on both counts. that means that the jury after two days of deliberations and four notes today came back with the verdict. remember the two trump organization entities accused to be in a 15-year tax fraud scheme giving certain executives compensation, apartments rent free, private school tuition for allen weisselberg s grandchildren. donald trump former president trump not charged in this case and the name did come out at the
let s discuss with politics reporter from the atlanta journal-constitution shannon mccaffrey. thanks for being here. what are the factors that you think are driving georgians to the polls today? well, i think, you know, the factors are different for the different candidates. i think, you know, some of the folks coming out to support herschel walker, you know, are looking past some of his flaws and some of his gaffes and other issues, because they simply want another republican vote in the senate. so i think in some ways while some of them really like herschel walker, i think there s a significant number who are holding their nose a little bit and just trying to give mitch mcconnell an extra vote. i think it s similar with raphael warnock. people are, you know, looking he s been makes the case 51 is better than 50. but folks who are supporting raphael warnock tend to be talking a little bit more about his character, his personality, you know, the lack of scandals surrounding him c
a human being being held account? why not donald trump? reporter: this is the way that the prosecutor s office decided to charge the case. they charged the two trump operationn ties and allen weisselberg. they were hoping to get him to flip, to cooperate and help them on the broader investigation into the accuracy of the financial statements and charged him on this. he pled guilty this year in august to 15 felonies. agreed to testify in this case as a state witness in exchange for a lenient prison sentence. he was on the stand and walked a tight rope giving the prosecutors what they want, telling the truth but walked a fine line saying that he did not conspire or scheme with members
says they will make criminal referrals to the justice department in the coming days. and the justice department s newly appointed special counsel has subpoenaed local officials in wisconsin and michigan for communications with former president donald trump and members of his 2020 campaign. cnn s evan perez joins us now. what do we know about it. reporter: this is an investigation that we know has been taken over by jack smith, the new special counsel and as you know it s looking into the efforts to impede the transfer of power after the 2020 election and so you have now these officials in dane county and wayne county in michigan, in wisconsin as well as in milwaukee who have received these subpoenas from the justice department signed by jack smith in the last few days, in the last few days and so what they re looking for is communications with a number of allies of the former president, people in his campaign and
begin your press conference criticizing donald trump. can you say categorically that you would not support him if he were the republican nominee? what i m saying it would be pretty hard to be sworn in to the presidency if you re not willing to uphold the constitution. that s what i said and i just said it again. reporter: so mcconnell has not yet said he would not support donald trump if he emerges as the nominee. last week i asked the same question in the aftermath of his criticism about the mar-a-lago dinner, also sized up the question there but there s significant daylight between senate republicans in particular and donald trump in the aftermath of these issues. they hope another candidate emerges to defeat him even if they may not outwardly say that, many feel that way. one person that didn t fully weigh in is kevin mccarthy who wants to become speaker, of course, with the support of donald trump. he said he d support the constitution but he stopped short of criticizing donald