County georgia. A grand jury bused in as prosecutors lay out their evidence that donald trump tried to steal the states electoral votes. Witness testimony moved up from tomorrow to today, the trump attacks on a key witness, and Text Messages that directly link the former president s legal team to a Voting System breach. And hawaii wildfire aftermath with the death toll close to 100, were hearing about government failures, failed fire hydrants, Warning Sirens that didnt go off, plus a claim that live power lines were not cut off. The raid on a small kansas newspaper, the editor targeted in the raid joins me this hour. Welcome to the lead. Im jack tapper. We start with our Law And Justice lead. Right now a grand jury is deciding whether to indict donald trump. It was expected to take at least two days for Fulton County District Attorney fani willis to produce her evidence. A number of key witnesses who had been told to show up tomorrow and testify have now been called in to testify. Thos
Plus, hes the Infamous Trump hatchet man, caught plotting Fake Electors. We must be prepared to lobby our republican legislatures. How roger stone is responding tonight. And meet the judge who helped rollback your reproductive rights, because doctors love looking at babies. When all in starts, right now. Good evening from new york. Im chris hayes. Fulton County District attorney fani willis was prosecuting donald trump and 18 other criminal criminals interacted tearing charges, announced her office is investigating threats against grand jurors who indicted the ex president. Nbc News Reporter Blayne Alexander and ryan reilly reported yesterday that Trump Supporters leaked reported addresses of grand jurors online, along with their names, which appeared in indictment. This is just the latest example of threatening behavior by Trump Supporters directed at the various people working to hold them accountable for the crimes he is accused of. We also learned yesterday that a texas woman was a
States of scandal with jake good morning. You were alive in the cnn newsroom. Im jim acosta and washington donald trump is off the Campaign Trail and back in the courtroom just minutes ago he arrived at the federal courthouse in South Florida for a hearing and his classified documents, case trump and his attorneys will ask the judge to dismiss the charges or at least grant them a delay in the trial and delay could also be looming in trumps election subversion okay. Its down in Fulton County, georgia at any time now, the Presiding Judge there could announce if District Attorney fani willis is disqualified from the case and a decision that could derail the trial from starting in august. Lets begin with the classified documents hearing today in florida. Cnns Kaitlan Polantz is outside the courthouse. Kaitlan, how likely is it that a judge Aileen Cannon will dismiss the case . There jim, that is going to be entirely up to her and were watching to see exactly how she reacts to the arguments
Front runner for the 2024 nomination, is accused and facing a slew of new charges for allegedly master minding a plot in georgia to stay in power. He and all the other defendants now have ten days to surrender. Late last night, an atlantabased grand jury voted to Indictment Trump and 18 other people, including mark meadows and rudy giuliani, on state criminal charges across 41 counts. All of them stemming from their alleged efforts to overturn trumps 2020 defeat. The indictment arguing that all of them, quote, refused to accept trump lost and know ingl and willfully joined a conspiracy to unlawfully change the outcome of the election. So this is a racketeering case, charges brought against mobsters, alleging a widespread conspiracy to commit multiple criminal acts. Trump is accused of 13 new crimes. Hes now charged with 91 crimes from the four indictments. Trump calls the new charges politically inspired. The defendants face an august 25th deadline to turn themselves in. Fulton County
Putin u. S. Department of states spokesperson Matthew Miller said in a statement, for years kremlin has attempted to silence navalny and prevent his calls from reaches the russian people. Russian authorities hill straight again baselessness of their case. And lack of due process to those who dare to criticize the regime, i said, many ways they talking about what they are doing to trump. Beau biden regime, Democrat Party is doing to trump. But they are doing to trump is worse, donald trump faces with Manhattan District Attorney democrat, left wing, soros, prosecutor, up to 136 years in prison. On bogus charges. Up to 136 years. This is a lot more than the 30 navalny faces in federal cases, Biden Administration, we have 32 counts for willful retention of national secrets. 6 for r obstruction of justice, that amounts to another 450 years. Maximum. Then he is charged in the socalled january 6, 2020 election matter, two for obstructing an official proceeding, 20 years each, one for conspira