Mmm the more you know. How important is it that so many people who were speaking so strongly to the grand jury and presumably will to a jury, are republicans . I think it matters quite a bit, chris. I think in the world of politics and media it may matter because it suggests that it isnt just the Democratic Party that is out to get donald trump, but i think in court it also matters. Their Defense Attorneys will always be looking for an example to crossexamine witnesses. If they say you are a member of a different party, that can be used to undermine credibility in the eyes of the jury. When they are aligned with them in the same political party, this really takes away the opportunity to suggest that they are just making this up. So i think it bolsters their credibility in the eyes of the jury. Speaking of the eyes of the jury, lets go to what you witnessed today, the comings and goings of the courthouse. Clearly fani willis said we did this by the book and we are going to prosecute thi
Indictment for the first time were being told that News Conference will take place in about 19 minutes. Meantime lets get you live outside the courthouse to matt finn. He is in atlanta with the breaking allegations on this matter. What do we know . Hydrates we are looking through the Indictment Documents right now, but they do read that donald trump and some of his associates, including Rudy Giuliani and mark meadows, have been listed and charged in this indictment. Theres a long list of various charges, including racketeering, false statements and solicitation of violation of an oath by a public officer. Were reading through this right now will be able to update you much more throughout the coming hour or two. Throughout the day. There was a lot of anticipation or questions. About who might be named in this indictment. If any of Donald Trumps associates would be listed, we now know that many of them are theres a long list, including some of his former attorneys, including jenna ellis.
Counts against mr. Trump, handed up last night by a grand jury after a 2 1 2 year investigation conducted by District Attorney willis in georgia. Willis writes, quote, defendant donald trump lost the election. One of the states he lost was georgia. Trump and the other defendants charged in this Indictment Refuse to accept that trump lost. They knowingly and willfully joined a conspiracy to unlawfully change the outcome of the election in favor of trump. Among those codefendants, some of the most wellknown people in the former president s orbit during his final days in office. Including his white house chief of staff, mark meadows, personal attorney and former new york city mayor, rudy giuliani, jeffrey clark, who tried to assert significant election concerns had been identified, and a string of lawyers, including john eastman, Sidney Powell and speaking to the press just before midnight, she rejected trumps accusation on social media that she was persecuting him for political reasons.
, within six months and she said was to try all 19 defendants together. Barb mcquade joins us once again barbed one of the things that weve been going through this and doing this live on television, its always dangerous, i feel like im finally getting a bit of closure on this indictment and some of the real human drama that we saw later particularly in the january six investigation in congress. Im thinking critically about Ruby Freedom Freeman and shaye moss, two Election Workers in georgia who work and i mean specifically who were terrorize, including having people storm into her home, people caused her neighbors, they had to go into hiding at one point before people want to make a Citizens Arrest of her all while donald trump and his allies have demonized these women, portraying them as having headed up some effort to defraud the electorate. Weve got multiple charges now, multiple felony criminal charges against people will actually try to intimidate ruby freeman, who went to her hom
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