Has now been criminally indicted three times. With the most recent federal indictment last week from special counsel jack smith. Part of his wide ranging investigation looked into the 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, which President 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 County District Attorney, who launched her own criminal probe in 2021. Now a grand jurys been convened and the former president could face even more indictments in the weeks to come. So what exactly did trump and his allies do in georgia . And what charges might they face . Over the next hour cnns sara murray will lay out the entire investigation and piece together what we know about the pressure campa
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 Which President 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 County District 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
Classified documents and State Charges for hush money payments. Hes pleaded not guilty to all charges. But hes also the target of another investigation by the Department Of Justice appointed special counsel looking into his efforts to subvert Election Results in seven states. One of those states is georgia, which President 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 County District Attorney, who launched her own criminal probe in 2021. Now, a grand jurys been convened and the former president could face even more indictments in the weeks to come. So what exactly did trump and his allies do in georgia, and what charges might they face . Over the next hour cnns sara murray will lay out the entire investigation and piece together what we know about the pressure campaigns, trumps private calls to Ele
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 it s 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 be on the phone with the president at the time? i was kind of irritated i wasn t on the call. and then i heard the call the next day. i m like, i m 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 we d been debunking for two months. giving oxygen to this continued disinformation is leading to a continuing erosion of people s belief in our elections. reporter: trump appeared to threaten the secretary of state.
your family members. yeah, my wife mostly, and she got she got the more vile, you know, personal kind of stuff. state patrol and heightened security and bomb-sniffing dogs. there was a website that formed that put a picture of my house and my address and my name and my kids names. you should go to jail, you are judas, you re a traitor, you ve committed treason. reporter: the december 3rd hearing would bring even more chaos to the state in the aftermath of the election when a then little-known attorney appeared. what do you remember about john eastman s presentation that day? i thought it was ridiculous. these significant statutory violations are in my view more than enough he saw it as the duty of the legislature to step in and basically throw out the will of georgia voters and for the legislature to convene a special session and appoint their own republican alternate electors. i don t think it s just your authority to do that but quite frankly i think you have a