worried because there are so many defendants in this case and he s got to be thinking oh, no, what if some of them flip and start to cooperate. this is a different case than the other ones he s facing. so i think he probably is worried about this one more so than the others. you re watching your screen, there it is. donald trump s private plane is wheels up to atlanta, georgia from newark liberty international airport. alyssa, this afternoon we got a mugshot of donald trump s former chief of staff at the white house, mark meadows. you know mark meadows pretty well. what goes through your mind when you see mugshots of people with whom you used to work? it honestly makes me sad. especially mark meadows. this was a multitime member of congress, somebody who could have stayed representing north carolina s 11th district for probably the rest of his life if he had wanted to. but he sort of made this deal with the devil working for donald trump. and as i ve mentioned to you
of unsafe, unsanitary living conditions, excessive force and violence. as for the overcrowding, some pretty staggering figures. the capacity of the fulton county jail, 2,688. but as of april, this is according to the state of georgia, it housed 3,221 inmates. that s about 120% capacity. seven inmates have died there this year. 15 died last year. we have some images of just the horrible conditions. grime, dirt all over the place, toilets overflowing, air-conditioning broken. lice, bed bugs, other insects everywhere. look at that. it s just absolutely horrible. now, one notorious case from last year, this young man, lashaun thompson, found dead in his cell last september. 35 years old. his lawyers and the medical examiners say he died from neglect, malnourishment, other horrible conditions. but it was also he was found with bed bugs and lice just infesting his body. his lawyers released images of his cell.
you talk about trumps obsession with georgia. this is about trying to reverse the results of a state where he lost. he try to get the secretary of state another people in politics to go back and recount the votes. what did you learn them an investigation about georgia that you think is fitting the bill as we watch what happens today? former president trump try to overturn the results and a lot of swing states but he did have a particular, as i said, and obsession with georgia. he talked about the dead voters and he couldn t stop claiming that there was 5000 dead voters when there were four. he was obsessed with the suitcase full of ballots in fulton county and he took a particular focus on two women, ruby freeman and shay moss. two black women in fulton county who were poll workers. truly a noble task and they were both witnesses before this committee and i think that seeing him today and having to answer for what he did in fulton county, i think they are a victim and how they were v
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using that, you ll see fund-raising e-mails go out. you see the text messages go out. and unfortunately it s sad because it s harmful for our country. we can t get past this moment of the lies that continue to spread. and you re seeing it. his supporters aren t wavering on this. i had to cut a vacation short to come back for this criminal indictment. not to complain. but you did not. you were on vacation. now you ve had a chance to read it. what do you think? yeah. i think that this case in particular is really strong. i feel like, i mean, we have him on audio literally telling the georgia secretary of state to find him 11,000 something votes. 780. yes, exactly. i think this is going to be a difficult case for him to try to spin his way out of. but as olivia mentioned, they try to say this is a weaponization of government. but to me this just looks 100% self-inflicted. donald trump got himself into this mess all because he