Whether you can lie to congress the try to steal an election, again, no. now, this case is in some ways different than all the other ones that have come before it, and it is by far the most sweeping. this is the first time we have seen anyone affiliated with donald trump s legal team or white house indicted for coup crimes, what they call racketeering. with that in mind we call in the district attorney for georgia edward tarver and melissa murray. welcome to both of you. edward, i walked through what i admitted was a small part of this thing, that we cannot in an hour or five hours go through what would be a multimonth set of trials for these 19 defendants. but based on the highlights we ve picked, would you say those involve strong evidence, for example the efforts to lie to georgia, to push georgia officials to potentially break the law to steal the georgia results? do you think those look like strong evidence to you if you were trying to this case?
If that was the entire and total conduct. what the d.a. seems to have done effectively is put it in the wider context of all of these plots, some of which are blatant foreignry and fraud, blatant efforts to impersonate officials. you can t pretend to be the chief of police legally and try to pull people over. you can t pretend to be an elector. what do you think about that distinction given your experience trying cases in georgia and how a jury how you present to a jury that this might be unethical, but alone we couldn t charge it, but together it now becomes evidence? well, you tie it into the conspiracy. in this case you have 18 defendants in addition to president trump. they were all acting in different locations, involved in different activities. but as i said earlier, because