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
The grand jury handling Donald Trumps Election Subversion Case is meeting right now, with indictment number 4 possible in the coming days. Why this case in georgia could create some of his most complicated legal problems yet. The death toll on maui keeps climbing. 96 confirmed fatalities now, with that number sadly expected to rise as Search And Rescue forge ahead. And the power companys now facing a lawsuit for not cutting electricity when forecasters were warning about powerful wind gusts. And almost two years after the chaotic u. S. Exit from afghanistan allies who fled the taliban and were promised a home in the United States say theyre now being sent back. We are following these major developing stories and many more all coming in right here to cnn news central. Potential indictment number 4 of former President Donald Trump could be days if not hours away. Today a grand jury in atlanta is hearing the culmination of a yearslong probe into efforts to overturn georgias 2020 election
This is a moment in American History, the president of the United States is effectively being called in official court, as the head of a criminal enterprise. Theres been a lot of speculation about white house Chief Of Staff mark meadows who had not been previously indicted. And there was a lot of drama about his testimony, the various investigatory bodies and grand juries. And i think a lot of people thought that mark meadows is getting charged, that he is cooperating, its the president. Mark meadows is charged here as a number of Trump Lawyers. We saw Trump Lawyers named, or not named, but indicated as Unindicted Coconspirators in the federal indictment, the most recent federal indictment about trying to overturn the election results. Questions as to them not being charged but named as coconspirators. Here, they are charged. Giuliani, charged. Eastman, charged. Shes parole, shards. Clark, charged. , charged Sydney Powell, charge. Andrew weizmann has some interesting things to say. Can
School education. All you need is a calendar and a healthy skepticism about washington, and so while the lawyers were going through some of the understandable details, i thought you hit on the head in your journalistic coverage of it which was we can see what the court is doing. We can see where theyre headed. Right. I mean, i feel like all that we need to know is, and all we need to trust is that we can see it with our own eyes and what we can hear with our own ears and i needed a calculator to do it, but you can add up the days that remain and it could take up until july 1st what they think and theres not a day left based on what Tanya Chutkan said and shocking, but not surprising that the American People will have to be their own jurors once again. And the Supreme Court issues a ruling that says no one is above being put on trial while eliminating the very trial then that is a stress test for their credibility. Well be talking about it more, but i did want to mention that on the han
quickly heating up this week as republican candidates begin firing shots at one another over who is the right person to lead the party against president biden in the 2024 election. but is the gop primary already shaping up to be a two-person race before former president trump and florida governor ron desantis? or is there a dark horse candidate voters should pay closer attention to? we re going to discuss that coming up. speaker mccarthy and i have had several productive conversations. our staffs continue to meet, and they re making progress. it s crunch time. it s not easy. we re going to make sure we re not just trying to get an agreement. we re trying to get something that s worthy of the american people. i thought we made progress yesterday. i thought we d make progress again today. i want to be able to solve this problem. we begin with the debt ceiling negotiators trying to finalize a deal with six days to go before the u.s. government faces a potential default.