Donald trump, now has ten days to surrender to authorities in georgia on charges tied to his efforts to overturn the 2020 election in georgia. It will be his fourth time booked on criminal charges. He wont be alone. The 98page indictment names 18 codefendants, including his former chief of staff, mark meadows. The 41 charges include racketeering and conspiracy. The atlanta area District Attorney fani willis says those 19 defendants in total plotted against the constitution which trump swore to protect and defend and abused the office, trump is of Course Running for once again. Cnns paula reed is at the courthouse in atlanta. Paula, this case is wider both in terms of number of defendants but also took a different legal path for charging this. Reporter thats right. A lot of key differences here. Not only in how its constructed. Fani willis pursuing a racketeering or rico case here. Rico laws were passed to dismantle organized crime. So shes charging former President Trump but 18 allies.
Good morning. Welcome to cnn this morning. A fresh start to your weekend. We thank you for starting with us. Im victor blackwell. Im amara walker. Thank you for sharing a part of your morning with us. The fight between Special Counsel and donald trump is heating up. Why theyre calling on the judge to take action after a social media post by the former president. This was crazy in new york city. Look at these pictures. There was some violence but a lot of chaos after a social Media Influencer posted about a give away and now that influencer is facing charges. And simone biles gets ready for a comeback after taking a break from the sport. We will have the latest on tonights competition. We begin with this latenight court filing from Special Counsel jack smith. He is now asking a federal judge to quickly set Disclosure Rules in the January 6th Case against former president donald trump. In the filing smith cited this social media post from trump earlier in the day that reads, if you go af
Life saving shots to other hospital staff. Cnns locorrespondent has more where this country stands. Im santa claus. He is definitely an essential worker. He keeps the joy and keeps everybodys spirits up. Reporter its a christmas like no other. You ready to open presents . Reporter Holiday Cheer dampened by the coronavirus pandemic. On wednesday, the nation reporting more than 228,000 new covid19 cases. The death toll surpassing 3,300. Cases on the rise across six states, the number in california alone surpassing 2 million. Deaths also on the rise in 18 states. Right now, covid19 is the single leading cause of death in the United States on a daily basis. Thats how tragic this is. Reporter a preventable tragedy. More lives would be saved in january if every state did a mask mandate, than will be saved by vaccine in january. Reporter there are more dark days ahead. The university of washingtons influential coronavirus model projects more than 500,000 americans will die of covid19 by april
Russians to stop this kind of attacks on our very fundamentals of democracy. Reporter and the president elect, who is a welldocumented skeptic of email, was speaking to reports at his resort over the weekend outside of a new Year Eve Party that he hosted. He offered this advice about emailing. Its very important, you know, if you have something really important, write it out and have it delivered by courier, the Old Fashioned way, because ill tell you what, no computer is safe. I dont care what they say. No computer is safe. Reporter and as he gets back to work in trump tower this morning, top on the list potentially is filling out the last remaining cabinet posts, among them secretaries of Veterans Affairs and agriculture. As he works to fill out his cabinet, we have Many Democrats on capitol hill threatening to drag down the votes, potentially delay some of these votes in some of these Committee Hearings for these nomination Committee Hearings, confirmation hearings coming up. So the
U. S. Who thought the u. S. Should have backed israel and voted against the measure. Vetoed it, which would have killed it. Cnn correspondent orren liebermann is with us now from israel. A u. N. Ambassador asked to see these ministers is not unusual but these are anything but normal circumstances. Is this kind of a power play or a message by mr. Netanyahu . Its absolutely a message that netanyahu said he would take diplomatic steps and we saw those diplomatic steps last night, pulling some 8 million from the u. N. And now were seeing a followup to those steps. Hes calling for reprimanding every ambassador that has a relationship with israel to reprimand them for invoking this resolution of critical settlement. Israel says this is antiisraelism and wont bring about peace at all. At first, israel had decided not to summon the u. S. Because after reconsidering he decided to summon dan shapiro. Whats interesting about that, shapiro is a president obama appointee, which means he only has a