question. if they drag their feet, even if they say no to trump, they could put off the trial until after the election which would give trump the chance to win and perhaps try to pardon himself. i think the will attempt to act with some haste. i think not immediately will a decision come down after arguments but i to think that the court will put this on the rocket docket. hold arguments pretty quickly and try to come down with a decision within the month or two of those arguments. that could still allow time for a trial in may or june, but a tight timeline. john, you have some understanding of the precedent they might consider here. walk us through the nixon case and watergate and how this might weigh on the justices. yeah. okay, in the nixon case, the support acted very quickly, but i disagree a little bit mark.
but this is more than just about his so-called perfect phone call with georgia secretary of state. this according to fani willis is about an orchestrated and organized effort to pressure georgia lawmakers in fulton county election workers to overturn legitimate results. phil and poppy, trump and his codefendants have until august 25th to turn themselves in. nick valencia live outside the fulton county courthouse. thank you. poppy. let s go through all of this with elie honig. good morning. great to have you. walk us through first who got charged. poppy, the fourth indictment has now landed. just to orient people because there s so many of these. let s take a moment. we have seen the new york state charge relating to hush money that indictment came back in april. the two jack smith federal cases in d.c. and mar-a-lago, florida, those have already been indicted. now we have the indictment in georgia state court for the attempt to interfere with the georgia results of the 2020 elect
line. 14 months since the supreme court struck down roe v. wade and the seventh to back abortion rights. we re talking a clean sweep. nbc s ali vitali is in ohio for us, also joining us former democratic congresswoman from maryland, donna edwards and former republican congressman from florida, david jolly. ali, walk us through last night s results and what it means for the upcoming vote in november on abortion rights there in ohio. look, you and i were talking about this yesterday as a proxy battle over abortion access. that s because what was in front of voters yesterday was about whether or not to change the rules to what it takes to amend the ohio constitution. we re seeing now 57% of voters here saying that they don t want to make it harder to change the constitution and in the minds of most of those voters, this was inextricably linked with that abortion amendment that s coming up on the ballot come november. that was also the case that it was linked for republicans who were cle
i know we don t know the answer to that yet, but tell us a little more about that piece of your reporting. yeah, so we don t know exactly who he showed them to, what he did with them, what the specific documents say. we know he was showing them. i mean, it is a crime to mishandle classified material, so i am sure that plays into both, you know, what the crime he potentially or people there potentially committed and possibly into intent, as well. perry, give us a sense, if you will, who investigators have been speaking to at mar-a-lago. are these employees? they ve pierced attorney/client privilege for one of the attorneys trump is using because that person is heavily involved in this. walk us through who smith, the special counsel, has been talking to. we know from this reporting yesterday that there were two employees, at least we know of now, that were moving documents around after the subpoena was issued and before they came to collect on that subpoena. so the one that has bee
latest reporting. emma, walk us through who leonard leo and what sort of payments he allegedly was giving to ginni thomas, and why the timing is of interest. leonard leo is not exactly a household name but he s a really important figure in what has been a generation-long effort by conservative activists to shift the federal judiciary to the right, and he oversees an interlocking network of nonprofits that just a couple of years ago got a major infusion of $1.6 billion in cash. so he is an influential person, and what documents we reviewed show is that in 2012 he told kellyanne conway who would of course go on to join the trump white house, she was then in charge of her own polling firm, and he said, look, i want you to and the quote was give