playing out before our eyes taking us to another scary place over the past fort night. a criminal investigation into donald trump s handling of classified information looming over the country and both major political parties with an even more significant specter casting a long, shadow in sharp relief. the very real possibility that a former president of the united states could soon be indicted for violating the espionage act or other federal statutes. it is extremely volatile and if donald trump is indeed indicted although that remains a big if, for the moment and we ll move beyond volatility and into more territory that s explosive into where there is a dramatic increase into more political violence than we ve seen already in our republic. in just the last two weeks we ve seen threats against the fbi and law enforcement surging. a pennsylvania man was arrested last week for threatening to kill agents of the federal bureau of investigation and a man armed with a semiautomat
County, georgia. And it is a doozy. The first codefendant in Donald Trumps Election Interference case, that rico case that charged a Criminal Enterprise, has flipped. Scott hall is in atlanta an athletearea Bail Bondsman. Hes accused of being involved in the plan to steal sensitive Election Data in Coffey County. He faces seven charges in the fulton case. And now again we just learned hes taking a plea deal. Lets bring in Greg Blue Stein with the Atlanta Journal constitution and former Acting Assistants Attorney General for National Security mary mccord. The Reverend Al Sharpton joins our coverage, as well. Greg, i feel like this attempt to steal sensitive Election Data in Coffey County never garnered the National Attention that it deserved considering how essential it was to trumps plot to overturn his defeated georgia. But take us inside first the significance of a guilty plea, and second his role in that Criminal Enterprise charged by d. A. Fannie willis. Youre right, scott hall was
criminal charges in the classified documents case but the former president rejected the idea. the post reports that chris kise wanted to negotiate a settlement with doj attorneys back in the fall. this is of course after that august search of mar-a-lago by the fbi. they found a trove of highly sensitive documents, including secrets about our nation s nuclear program. cnn spoke to sources close to trump s legal team about the post s reporting and some are casting doubt on this having been a real opportunity to prevent trump s indictment. the reporting also notes that rather than listening to actual lawyers, cnn and the post found, both report that trump had been following the advice of this man. it s tom fitten who doesn t have a law degree. he is the head of the conservative activist group judicial watch. he started calling trump in february of last year, urging him not to turn over the documents and also not to cooperate with federal investigators. let s bring in cnn senior
federal judge, matthew brand, this is not a fraud case. quite an admission from a man who cited fraud 27 times and also swore up and down that there was a gross miscarriage of justice in the state of pennsylvania. now, keep that in mind as we evaluate the latest from magaland. the way they say one thing and often do another. the prime example is that for the past few days in the supposed interest of transparency, the twice-impeached ex-president himself has called for a highly unusual step, the release of the affidavit behind the mar-a-lago search warrant. the document that many people believe in the legal profession could be quite harmful to his interests, but again, say one thing, do another. from the washington post, as a hearing began on thursday, on whether to release the document in response to a request by news organization, including the washington post , trump s legal team still hadn t taken a position in court, conservative activist group judicial watch,
jackson. senator warren blasted the president last night on cnn. i really couldn t believe it. president trump couldn t even make it through a ceremony to honor these men without throwing in a racial slur. you know, he thinks that somehow he s going shut me up with that. and it s just not going to happen. it didn t work in the past, it s not going to work in the future. white house press secretary says the use of pocahontas was not a racial clur slur. the washington post says it was the target of a sting operation apparently run by the conservative activist group project veritas. post reports that a woman