Has now been criminally indicted three times with the most recent federal indictment last week from special counsel jack smith. Part of his wideranging investigation looked into efforts by the former president and his allies to subvert Election Results in seven states after President Biden won in 2020. One of those states Is Georgia WhichPresident Biden flipped blue for a win in 2020. President trump refused to accept the result, and he and his allies engaged in a number of plots to overturn bidens win. Some of these actions were so aggressive, they drew the attention of the Fulton CountyDistrict Attorney, who launched her own criminal probe in 2021. Now a grand jury has been convened, and the former president could face even more indictments in the weeks to come. What exactly did trump and his allies do in georgia, and what charges might they face . Over the next hour, well lay out the entire investigation and piece together what we know about the pressure campaigns, trumps private calls to Election Officials, a major data breach, and the plot to subvert the Electoral College process. Breaking news in to cnn this hour, prosecutors in georgia have opened a criminal investigation. Criticism nag investigation into former President Trump, why . Because of his january phone call to the georgia Secretary Of State. Focus on the former president s attempts to influence the administration of the 2020 georgia general election. Donald trump got beat by joe biden. Handily. Theres no way we lost georgia. That was a rigged election. He went on a warpath like a scolded child to do anything he possibly could to overturn that election. They defrauded us out of a win in georgia. And were not going to forget it. I underestimated his willingness to push the envelope as far as he did, to just boldface lie again and again and again. Three months after the election, the District Attorney in Fulton County, georgia, fani willis, officially opened an investigation into former president Donald Trumps efforts to overturn the states president ial Election Results. This is a criminal investigation. Were not here playing a game. I plan to use the power of the law because i sit here in this jurisdiction, its my responsibility. Fani willis is known as a prosecutors prosecutor. Shes known as a tough cookie whos a really preparer. As she likes to say, i dont like to try things skinny. I dont like to be in a courtroom unprepared. Reporter its in that vein that willis requested a Special Purpose Grand Jury to assist in her investigation. Special purpose grand juries are very, very, very rare in georgia. Reporter robert james is one of the few District Attorneys who has overseen a Special Purpose Grand Jury in georgia. Their own powers are much broader than a regular grand jurys. Reporter while a Special Purpose Grand Jury doesnt issue indictments, it can be a useful tool for a prosecutor. The d. A. Wanted it because she wanted to use the powers to subpoena people, to get evidence, documented evidence that she wouldnt otherwise have access to. A Special Purpose Grand Jury would give her more details about the allegations she was investigating. Reporter a Special Purpose Grand Jury was impaneled in may 2022. And after nearly seven months and 75 witnesses, they authored a report in December 2022 recommending indictments. The Sprawling Case has involved some of the biggest names in the trump orbit, as well as some local and statelevel politicians, many of which you may have never even heard of. And this entire investigation stems back to a single phone call. Okay. All right. So mr. President , everybody is on the line, and just so this is mark meadows, the chief of staff, just so we all are aware. To this day, trump says he did nothing wrong. Nobody found anything wrong with that perfect call. It all started on fani willis first full day in the office after she was sworn in as Fulton Countys first female District Attorney. So help me god. Morning of january 4th she walks in and sets her stuff on her desk and immediately takes note of the story thats dominating cable News Coverage that day. Major Breaking News this hour. Inside a stunning new pressure campaign. The president heard pressuring georgias Secretary Of State to overturn his defeat there. Theyre all Airing Snippets of this extraordinary leaked Phone Conversation between then President Donald Trump and Brad Raffensperger. Reporter Brad Raffensperger is the Secretary Of State in georgia and one of the few republicans who publicly stood up against trumps Conspiracy Theories and claims of Election Fraud after losing the 2020 president ial election. Okay, thank you very much. Hello, brad and ryan and everybody. We appreciate the time and the call. Reporter trump was joined by a number of advisers, including chief of staff mark meadows and conservative attorney coletta mitchell. If we could just go over some of the numbers, i think its pretty clear that we won. We won very substantially georgia. Reporter at the time of the election, Gabriel Sterling was the Voting Systems implementation manager. When did you learn that that call was taking place . About 60 seconds before the call took place. And what was your thought when you learned he was about to hop on the phone with the president at the time . I was kind of irritated i wasnt on the call. And then i heard the call the next day. And i was like, im so thankful i was not on that call. It was an hour, of which 55 minutes the president spoke. And it was the greatest hits of all the stuff wed been debunking for two months. Giving oxygen to this continued disinformation is leading to a continuing erosion of peoples belief in our elections. Reporter trump appeared to threaten the Secretary Of State. You know what they did, and youre not reporting it. Thats you know, thats a criminal thats a criminal offense. And you know, you cant let that happen. Thats a big risk to you and reporter and then theres this. I just want to find 11,780 votes, which is one more than we have, because we won the state. Reporter 11,780. The exact number of votes trump needed to win georgia. How are you taking this in . Well, i realized there werent the votes to find. We had checked out all the allegations. So we knew that we had the right results. Reporter raffensperger refused to budge. Well, mr. President , the challenge that you have is the data you have is wrong. Reporter by this Point Raffensperger had overseen three separate ballot counts, conducted many other reviews of the process, and investigated more than 250 claims of voter fraud. The fact remained, trump had lost the state of georgia. All i knew is we had to lean into the law and into the facts. And we had both on our side. Reporter raffensperger also received a call from republican senator lindsey graham. The Secretary Of State left the call believing graham implied he should try to throw out ballots. Graham denies that claim. Well, he asked if the ballots could be matched back to the voters, and i got the sense it implied that then you could throw those out. Reporter then President Donald Trump made phone calls to a handful of elected officials in georgia in the aftermath of the 2020 elections. He called francis watson, who was then an investigator in the Secretary Of States office. The people of georgia are so angry at what happened to me. They know i won. Won by Hundreds Of Thousands of votes. It wasnt close. Whatever you can do, francis, it would be a great thing. Its an important thing for the country. Reporter the former president called attorney general chris carr in December 2020 asking him basically not to get involved as texas was fighting georgias Election Results at the supreme court. Reporter trump also made phone calls to officials requesting a Special Session of the legislature. So georgia legislators could appoint their own electors instead of the ones for biden the voters had selected. He called the former speaker of the Georgia House of representatives. David ralston, a republican. Reporter and the governor. He made at least two phone calls to governor kemp. Reporter both refused to call for a special legislative session. There was a very orchestrated, calculated process going on around us in georgia trying to get us to change our minds and put pressure on us. So far, we havent been able to find the people with the courage to do the right thing. Reporter this is trump just hours after Governor Brian Kemp declined his request. Your governor could stop it very easily. If he knew what the hell he was doing. He could stop it very easily. Donald trump was intimately involved in every process around trying to overturn this election. I mean, this was a granular ground game of epic proportion. This was somebody obsessed with overturning that election at all costs. Up next why are you flying down from d. C. On december 3rd to the Georgia State capitol for some nothing Subcommittee Hearing . Dead people, felons reporter Rudy Giuliani hijacks the Georgia Legislature. Phoney mailin ballots so he lied . Yeah. Yo ur birthday, too. Available for a limited time only at ihop. Download the app and start earning free food. vo Verizon Small Business days are coming. From august 7th to the 13th. Now is the time to partner with our experts. Get started today with verizon business. Its your business. Its your verizon. [music plays] if your instinct is to help. Then clearly you care. You have what it takes to be a care professional. Home instead. Apply now. 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With astepros unbeatably fast allergy relief you can astepro and go for jen derden, December 3rd Of 2020 began as she expected. The then Georgia Democratic state senator made her way downtown to the capitol for a meeting. It was a Government Oversight Meeting to talk about what happened in the elections and the issues. And it ended up being a pretty straightforward committee hearing. We have not seen anything that would suggest widespread fraud or widespread problems. Here i am thinking, okay, great. Weve answered some of these conspiracies. Weve dealt with the issues. It felt like an Adult Committee hearing. So i went to my office. And then i almost immediately get a text. Somebody was like, youve got to get over to the capitol. Somethings going on. Call the subcommittee of the judiciary to order reporter unbeknownst to jordan her republican colleague, then state senator William Ligon, Convened Another Special Committee to look into questions of Election Fraud. These complaints deserve full investigation. And his committee ended up playing host to Rudy Giuliani and many of these Election Deniers related to the Trump Campaign. God bless you too. Never give up. Never, nope. We love you, rudy. Distinguished members of the committee, thank you very much for giving us this hearing. I represent President Trump along with jenna ellis. Reporter Rudy Giuliani wasnt the only surprise appearance. The news media were not the usual characters. People like the epic times, newsmax, oan, all of these various news outlets that had a very particular view in terms of how they were covering the election postnovember. And it was incredibly troubling. Do you remember having any other kind of Committee Proceeding Where All Of A Sudden Newsmax and oan were there . No. I mean, why are you flying down from d. C. On december 3rd to the Georgia State capitol for some nothing Subcommittee Hearing . What really triggered serious alarm bells is when the tweet went out from the then president. Reporter President Trump fired off this tweet to his millions of followers ahead of the hearing, directing them to one America News Network to watch what would unfold at the georgia capitol. What did that tell you about who the audience was for this production . It wasnt me. It wasnt voters, or just the random person. They were Trump Supporters who needed to be fed this conspiracy and be shown that there was evidence. Reporter as the Lieutenant Governor at the time, geoff duncan served as the president of the georgia senate. Those werent official meetings. I didnt sanction those. Those were just something that had the formality of feeling like official meetings. They wanted a Special Session because that added one layer of authenticity to their Conspiracy Theories. Reporter perhaps the most egregious allegations came in the form of a video. The trump Team Presented what they claimed was evidence of fraud from Election Night ballot tabulating at the State Farm Arena in downtown atlanta. It purported to show a number of nefarious moments, including sending Election Observers home to secretly count ballots. Four people stay behind and continue counting and tabulating well into the night. Reporter they claimed Election Workers were pulling out suitcases of hidden ballots after others were sent home. Once everyone is gone, coast is clear, they are going to pull ballots out from underneath a table. Reporter and scanning ballots multiple times. How many ballots went through those machines in those two hours when there was no one there to supervise . We believe that could easily be and probably is certainly beyond the margin of victory. The story she told was just chilling in terms of, look at what theyre doing. Video doesnt lie. And when you look at what you saw on the video, which to me was a smoking gun the problem was is that the video had been selectively edited. What did you make when you saw what he was showing his video of what happened at State Farm Arena . They found their magical suitcase full of ballots. When im looking at it im like, thats a ballot carrier. Those are sealed ballot carriers, which is a normal thing youd have in elections. But they sliced that thing down to this one little narrow thing. They intentionally misled the state senate in order to keep pushing this narrative and try to get the election thrown out. So he lied . Yeah. I mean, they never backed off from it. Reporter the fbi and th