Who will address this indictment. We are being told that News Conference will take place in about 19 minutes. Lets get you live outside the courthouse to matt finn. He is in atlanta with the braking allegations. What do we know. Reporter we are looking through the Indictment Documents right now. They do read that donald trump and some of his associates including Rudy Giuliani and mark meadows have been arrested and charged in this indictment. There is a long list of various charges including racketeering, false statements and solicitation of a violation of an oath by a public officer. We a reading to this right now. We will 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 know that many of them are. There is a log was including some of his former attorneys. We are waiting on the Press Conference from the Fulton County
About the charges but some of the other big names here also, i mean, you have rudy giuliani, trump attorney, former new york mayor. mark meadows, white house chief of staff. for president from. john eastman his lawyer that was talking about this particular effort to overturn the election. jeff clark, the top justice department official who was set to take over potential for bill barr, june ellis. other names on here, sidney powell, who obviously was a trump lawyer during that time. other gop officials from georgia and publicist. you have 18 people including the former president facing these charges. and the specifics in here is really what i was trying to as you all were talking. to see how it and what because part of the rico is that you are going to have two, three, four criminal acts that
State officials. there was a ledge creation and destruction of false electoral college documents. harassment and intimidation of the fulton county election worker, will be feeling. solicitation of the vice president and doj officials and unlawful breach of election equipment in georgia. we are assuming that is related to coffee county and ultimately an obstruction in cover up. those are the elements that the indictment alleges against donald trump and his enterprise including mark meadows, rudy giuliani and many of president trump s former attorneys. we are coming through the indictment right now and we will get back to you with much more information throughout the night. trace: matt finn, thank you. i want to i want to get back to bret baier if i can. the special report. i m going through all the charges. i m sure you are, too. we are up to 41. perjury in the last one. the violation of the coach arico racketeering influenced and corrupt organization act. i was talking with mike davi
bret: well, i have listened to a lot of legal experts talk about the indictment and alan dershowitz and others said the ricoh can get you to the courtroom, can get into the crowd but it does not help you appeal perhaps sometimes falls apart. you have to look through all the specifics inside this indictment and we are just getting into the 98 pages. some reporting that they have some communications between trump legal team in the trunk folks with this breach of election machines in coffee county, georgia, that was never to get evidence about false claims. that could be one of the actions we are looking at. we re going to take into the 98 pages. but what we can say is that there are not just the former president, but you have a lot of other named people who are being charged here. trace: and before i let you go, we talked about this with
Participation in a criminal enterprise in fulton county, georgia, and elsewhere, to accomplish the illegal goal of allowing donald j. trump to seize the presidential term of office beginning on jan january 20th, 2021. specifically, the participant in association took various actions in georgia and elsewhere, to block the county of the votes of the presidential electors, who were certified as the winners of georgia s 2020 general election. as you examine the indictment, you will see acts that are identified as overt acts and those that are identified as predicate acts. sometimes called acts of racketeering activity. overt acts are not necessarily crimes under georgia law in