lace out dames of the investigation to the former president and the most serious charges he s now facing. breaking news, into cnn this hour, prosecutors in georgia have opened a, investigation. into former president trump. why because of his january phone call to the georgia secretary of state. to influence the 2020 georgia federal election. donald trump got beaten by joe biden handily. he went on the war path like a scolded child to do anything he could to detrot that election. they total from us the georgia election and i m not going to let it. bold face lie again and again and again. three months after the election the district attorney in fulton county georgia, fonni willis officially opened an investigation into former president donald trump s efforts to overturn the election results. this is a federal election, i plan to use the power of the law. because i sit here in this jurisdiction it s my responsibility. fonni willis is known as a prosecutor s pro
Chaos to persuade then vice president mike pence to subvert the constitution. and throw out the 2020 election results on january 6th. the fulton county prosecutors zeroed in on john eastman s part in the plot. they were very interested in his alleged role at the center of coming up with the scene of appointing these republican electors. in e-mails listed in the indictment the conservative attorney laid out the scheme to his co-conspirators. eastman made various schemes of voter fraud when he proposed to overturn biden s victory. when he submitted falsified court documents that challenged georgia s vote. if constitutional power to decide on the method for choosing electors remains
Hour. inside a turning new pressure campaign. the president heard pressuring pressuring georgia s secretary of state to overturn his defeat there. we re all airing snippets of this extraordinary conversation between former president trump and brad raffensperger. claims of election fraud after losing the 2020 presidential election. okay, thank you very much. hello brad and ryan and everybody. we appreciate the time and the call. trump was joined by a number of advisors, including chief of staff mark meadows and conservative attorney cleta mitchell. if we can go over some of the numbers i think it s pretty clear that we won. we won very substantially, georgia. at the time of the election,
Investigating under rico. it enables to you charge a group of people all together and enables you as a prosecutor to show the full extent of this group. it s normally used for the mob, the mafia, organized crime units. the interesting thing about it is, you don t actually have to have specific instructions from one person to the next in like a normal conspiracy. it can be as long as you re a part of this whole enterprise and you have a common goal, what one is doing in concert may apply to everyone else. in this entire investigation stems back to a single phone call. all right, mr. president, everybody is on the line and just so this is mark meadows the chief of staff. so that we re all aware. to this day, trump says he did nothing wrong. nobody found anything wrong with that perfect call. major breaking news this
the december hearing would bring even more chaos to the state in the aftermath of the election when a then little known attorney appeared. what do you know about john eastman s presentation that day? i thought i.t. was ridiculous. remind you more than enough. he saw it as the duty of the legislature to step in basically throw out the will of georgia voters and for the legislature to convene a special session and appoint their own republican alternate electors. i don t think it is your authority to do that but quite frankly you have a duty to do that to protect the integrity of the election here in georgia. he didn t have a clue with what he was talking about. i m like, he s wrong. part of what he is accused of doing is trying to persuade members of the legislative branch in georgia using false information. using outright lies. to try to get them to act against the interests of the people and the voters of