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These are serious charges. These are like for the mafia or mob. What were they thinking . Something that campaign cant get involved in. Kids screaming, babies being handed off to other people. It was like out of a war movie. The Historic Town of lahaina burned to the ground. Well find out what we could have done to prevent such loss of life to the best of our ability. Live in london, this is cnn newsroom. It is august 14. And the District Attorney is expected to present the case against donald trump this week. She could possibly seek more than a dozen indictment including a fourth round of charges for the former president. It comes as cnn has new details on the case. Sources say there is new evidence linking Donald Trumps legal team to a voting breach. Reporter specifically he these Text Messages show that lawyers working for trump actively sought to get a written letter of recommendation in the days leading up to the breach. Lawyers like Rudy Giuliani and former trump attorney Sydney
Trumps efforts to overturn the 2020 election. Sources tell cnn that georgia prosecutors now have Text Messages and emails directly connecting trumps legal team to a Voting System breach in Coffee County, georgia in january 2021. This comes as the district investigating trump in georgia appears to be close to an indictment. Fulton County District attorney fani willis is expected to seek charges against more than a dozen people. If she brings charges against the former president , it would be the fourth indictment of trump since being voted out of office. We have coverage of these new developments. Isabel rosales is outside the Fulton County court where Security Preparations under way. And we have Cnns Zachary Cohen with these new developments. Zach, lets begin with you. Tell us more about what youre learning and this new evidence. Reporter fred, these are texts, our sources are telling us, are in the hands of the prosecutors in georgia. The Text Messages really lay out a plan that links
Development linking trumps legal team to a Voting System breach in a rural georgia county. Zach, what can you tell us . Reporter fred, coffee county, georgia is heavily republican where trump won over 70 of the vote there. But after the 2020 election, allies of donald trump and his attorneys tried to get access to a Voting System there and ultimately were successful in that. And these new Text Messages are in the possession of prosecutors now lay out that plan and connect trumps attorneys like sydney powell, Rudy Giuliani to this Planning Process and effort to get access to Voting Systems. It lays out how in the days before the breach, even before 2021, the attorneys were trying to get written information from a local official there. Connecting some of the dots showing this was more of a topdown effort to get access from machines rather than just a sporadic random oneoff. Trumps attorneys now more connected to this breach than we knew previously. So how are spinks expected to play out
You are in the cnn newsroom. Hi, im jessica dean in washington. Jim acosta has the night off, and we begin with major developments in the Fulton County investigation into former President Donald Trump. The District Attorney there just notified two witnesses to testify before the grand jury next week as she prepares to seek a potential fourth indictment against trump and some of his allies. She will attempt to show that they conspired to overturn his 2020 election loss and today we got the strongest indication of eutenant governor and cnn contributor geoff duncan. Take a listen. I did just receive notification to appear on Tuesday Morning at the Fulton County grand jury and certainly will be there to do my part in recounting the facts. I have no expectations as to the questions and will certainly answer whatever question is in front of me and dont want to go any deeper to jeopardize the investigation but, look, for me this is a story that is important for republicans to hear, americans