The 2020 election. 18 others charged as well, including big names. Rudy giuliani, measuring meadows, with that many people, does it make it more likely that someone could flip. Prosecutors call it a Criminal Enterprise and they are leaning hard on Racketeering Laws to make their case. Im kate bolduan with john berman and sara sidner. This is cnn news central. Donald trump and 18 codefendants have 10 days to turn themselves in and surrender in georgia. In a 98page indictment, the former president , who is also the current front runner for the 2024 republican nomination is accused of plotting against the Very Constitution he swore to protect. And the office he hopes to hold again. Fulton County District attorney fani willis argues all 19 defendants refuseed to accept that trump lost and knowingly joined a conspiracy to change the outcome of the election. I make decisions base d on te facts and the law. The law is completely nonpartisan. Thats how decisions are made in every cay case. We
for abusing people. the difference, disagree with chris christie. he s a more than noble and nimble prosecutor. the reason i disagree about the necessity of this indictment is that in georgia unlike florida, unlike washington, d.c. and the jack smith case, you have individual victims that were harmed by the actions of the president of the united states. you have individual victims who if yous look at the montage of characters up there, you have a pirn who is a part of this conspiracy, within the out of her way to harm freeman. you had the president of the united states on a phone call calling her everything but a child of god. this was somebody who is the backbone of our democracy. i think doug would agree the poll workers that we have, the people who watch polls and do this work every election, they are the fabric of our democracy. and he went out there to harm those people. that makes this case a little
set the scene and begin the story. it was just the implementation of the overall plan at the federal level. so if you look at georgia and then look the at the federal indictment, everything that they wanted to do or plan to do, they were actually doing on the ground in this state. reporter: this is outside the power of former president trump or any other republican, who is elected president. they would not have the ability to pardon or commute the sentence of anyone who maybe convicted in this case. can you give us a sense of what happens next with the process is next? reporter: we don t expect there s going to be an issue with the former president
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i want to make one more point. unlike the other cases, race is going to bla a central role in this case. in all kinds of ways. donald trump is a little more sensitive to black woman than to other people. the jury pool is going to be largely african-american, if it stays here. so i do think there s an undercurrent of race in this case, and especially given that it s georgia, it s going to make it different than the other three cases. i do expect some of those witnesses to turn and to testify against the ex-president. there s a lot of lawyers charged here. a lot. i can t think of another case where so many lawyers are charge ed with crimes. how unique is that and what complications does that provide here? it s not unique where people violate the law 3 the problem for them is there s multiple areas of sang for them. they can go to jail for this