Has now been criminally indicted three times. With the most recent federal indictment last week from special counsel jack smith. Part of his wide ranging investigation looked into the efforts by the former president and his allies to subvert Election Results in seven states after President Biden won in 2020. One of those states is georgia, which President Biden flipped blue for a win in 2020. President trump refused to accept the result and he and his allies engaged in a number of plots to overturn bidens win. Some of these actions were so aggressive they drew the attention of the Fulton County District Attorney, who launched her own criminal probe in 2021. Now a grand jurys been convened and the former president could face even more indictments in the weeks to come. So what exactly did trump and his allies do in georgia . And what charges might they face . Over the next hour cnns sara murray will lay out the entire investigation and piece together what we know about the pressure campa
Were happy youre here and enjoying the morning. And theres a lot going on on. Rachel just a little. Will would you say what we exhibited privately behind scene was act of discipline or lack of discipline . Excellent discipline. We did a segment on Mark Zuckerberg fighting and we have a quarter founder, cheese burgers, fries, nuggets. Trying to tell me you didnt eat it. We didnt eat all of it. I thought i was asking you. Like half of the quarter founder and then disciplined or not disciplined . I saw him eat half a burger and put it back down. Pete pretty good. Rachel youre training for this. Will horrific. Rachel why good for zuckerberg but bad for pete more weight to be put on more were trying to look naturally sync. If you take your shirt off it is rachel hash browns down there . Pete sausage egg and cheese we would have been done. We are selectively disciplined. Will two weeks away pete and i will be swimming from new jersey to manhattan with stops at the Statue Of Liberty ending at
Glimpse into the defenses lawyers will make on the stand. Here is jonna lauro on meet the press. The defense is quite simple. Donald trump, president trump, believed in his heart of hearts that he had won that election. And as any american citizen, he had a right to speak out under the First Amendment. He had a right to petition governments around the country, state governments. Based on his grievances that Election Irregularities had occurred. He had every right to speak about the important issues that were taking place after the election. A technical violation of the constitution is not a violation of criminal law. That is just plain wrong. Except a technical violation of the constitution by definition is still a violation of the constitution. The constitution, in six different places, opposes insurrection and our constitution is designed to stop people from trying to overthrow elections, and trying to overthrow the government. Moments later, democratic congressman jamie raskin respo
Indictment. Those indictments arent wort the paper theyre written on. How will he defend himself . And will he go to trial before the election . Trumps attorney john loro joins in me moments. And too honest. A central figure in the new case, the former Vice President ramps up his criticism of his old boss. The president ultimately continued to demand that i choose him over the constitution. What does he make of the case . Gop president ial candidate mike pence is next. Plus, on message. With just over two weeks until the gop debate, other candidates struggle to break through. Is there a new opportunity to edge out the frontrunner. Gop president ial candidate Chris Christie joins me ahead. Hello, im dana bash in washington, where the state of our union is watching Court Filings pile up. Donald trump is kicking off a new week, juggling an evermore legal calendar over his third indictment over alleged attempts to overturn the 2020 election. As usual, the former president is lashing out at
From custody after charging to incite to write nypd arresting at least 60 people following the chaos police say more than half of them were juveniles for New York City mayor eric adams described his initial reaction when he saw what was happening. When i looked at what happened in union square the first thing i did was text my son and say where are you . Are you in union square . And i wondered with the thousands of children who were there, hurling a dangerous object at Police Officers, disrespect that residents in the area, attacking each other, how many parents text their children . Works ted williams a standby we will get his take on this and just moments. But first ucb cotton live in union square at the latest on the situation that escalated very quickly. Hi brian, quickly indeed. More than 24 hours later theres still crews cleaning up the mess left behind from this outofcontrol crowd. The work people working behind in reher moving paint and assesg other damage route as you mention