Prosecute gangs or mafia crime families sums up the entire coup plot. Here is how District Attorney willis puts it last night. The indictment alleges that rather than abide by georgias Legal Process for election challenges, the defendants engaged in a Criminal Racketeering Enterprise to overturn georgias president ial election results. Now, her indictment of this Criminal Racketeering Enterprise begins with a very simple and clear statement, it goes like this. Quote, depth donald trump lost the United States president ial election held on november 3rd, 2020. Prosecutors allege that the entire coup plot was in service of reversing that one single, simple fact. They say that trump and his 18 codefendants along with 30 unindicted coconspirators, quote, constituted a criminal organization, whose members and associates engaged in various related criminal activities, including and not limited to false statements and writings, impersonating public officers, forgery, filing false documents, in
sworn testimony. the president had a very strong, a very angry response to that. tony described him as being irate. the president said something to the effect of i m the effing president, take me up to the capitol now. that tony you just heard mentioned, hutchinson said the information was relayed to her by tony ornato. cnn s tom foreman takes a closer look at ornato s role inside the white house. the president said something to the effect of i m the effing president, take me up to the capitol now. cassidy hutchinson s story of then president trump lunging at secret service agents january 6th spurred a quick denial from the man she says told her the tale, tony ornato. according to the secret service source, we re not saying this did not happen. so who is tony ornato as a high ranking secret service officer, ornato protected presidents for years. under trump he was given leave to be elevated to a new, unusual, and powerful role, assistant to the president and deput
hutchinson ahead of her sworn testimony. a source tells cnn one person who may have tried to influence her did so at the behest of then white house chief of staff mark meadows. the january 6th committee giving us a taste of that pressure campaign. this is a call received by one of our witnesses, quote, a person let me know you have your deposition tomorrow. he wants me to let you know he s thinking about you. he knows you re loyal and you re going to do the right thing when you go in for your deposition. cnn s ryan nobles is here with the latest. yeah, jim, we are getting more information about the concerns the january 6th select committee has about some of their witnesses being intimidated by the former president donald trump or some of his closest allies, and we re learning that those examples that they provided at the end of their hearing on tuesday were both directed at their star witness, cassidy hutchinson, and at least one of them, the belief is that it was sent
on january 6 and we heard from cassidy hutchinson. she s a 26-year-old former top aid to then white house chief of staff mark meadows. i ll play a lot of what she had to stay right now. i think it s important. if you didn t see it or think someone should see it, call them and let them know. we re playing it for you. it s important for the country to see. the world to see. listen to every word she had to say. because it s like nothing we have ever heard before about an american president insisting on joining his supporters headed to the capitol, supporters by the way armed with knives, guns, spears, and flag poles. i think the last time we talked you mentioned that some of the weapons that people had at the rally included flag poles, oversized sticks or flag poles. bear spray. is there anything else you recall hearing about that the people who gathered had? i recall tony and i having a conversation with mark, probably around 10:00 a.m. 10:15 a.m. where i remember tony ment
weissmann. in the fourth criminal indictment of the twice impeached disgraced ex-president donald trump, his former chief of staff and right-hand man, mark meadows, is criminally charged in connection with january 6th for the very first time. he has been a key figure in various investigations into trump from the beginning, from the trove of tex messages he turned over to the bomb shell testimony from his former closest aide cassidy hutchinson to reports that he recently testified before a federal grand jury. now that meadows faces criminal charges at the state level, including conspiracy, what impact does that have and does it affect special counsel jack smith s case against donald