Front runner for the 2024 nomination, is accused and facing a slew of new charges for allegedly master minding a plot in georgia to stay in power. He and all the other defendants now have ten days to surrender. Late last night, an atlantabased grand jury voted to Indictment Trump and 18 other people, including mark meadows and rudy giuliani, on state criminal charges across 41 counts. All of them stemming from their alleged efforts to overturn trumps 2020 defeat. The indictment arguing that all of them, quote, refused to accept trump lost and know ingl and willfully joined a conspiracy to unlawfully change the outcome of the election. So this is a racketeering case, charges brought against mobsters, alleging a widespread conspiracy to commit multiple criminal acts. Trump is accused of 13 new crimes. Hes now charged with 91 crimes from the four indictments. Trump calls the new charges politically inspired. The defendants face an august 25th deadline to turn themselves in. Fulton County
Good morning, everyone. So glad youre with us. Good morning. Hump day. Fz good morning. Half way through. We have a lot of deve developments. A lot going on overnight. Lets start with five things to know. Voters in ohio showed up in a big way. Overwhelmingly rejecting issue one, an issue that would have made it harder to amend the constitution. Its a major win for Abortion Rights supporters ahead of a vote to ensure access to abortion. We are seeing a secret memo from an Unindictmented Coconspirator in the January 6th Case against donald trump. The New York Times got ahold of the letter, which shows the evolution of the fake elector scheme. Also this morning, hawaii is under a State Of Emergency right now as large wildfires rage. They are fuelled by winds from hurricane dora. The coast guard is rescuing people who have been jumping into the ocean to escape the smoke and fire. The police chief of montgomery, alabama, says its huk hewly likely 245 more people will be charged in the chaot
welcome to inside politics. i m john king in washington. thank you for sharing your day with us. is it a when or if? a grand jury weighs to indict donald trump. law enforcement in new york and here in washington on alert now for possible protests. the former president s allies in congress are attacking the manhattan prosecutor. plus a handshake watched around the globe. highly choreographed moment by xi jinping and vladimir putin sends a defiant message to the united states and to the west, but so far, no public chinese commitment to help putin on the ukraine battlefield. and president biden takes out his veto pen for the first time. at issue, investment rules. woke capitalism is infecting banks and its government. up first for us, a law and order decision with history on the line. tomorrow the grand jury meets again in manhattan. that maybe the day new york prosecutors lay out charges against the former president of the united states. but the timing of everything her
the vice president also facing a pressure campaign. she also alleges they tried to breach voting machines in rural georgia, and then cover it all up. so by far, this is the most broad-sweeping indictment ever brought by a local prosecutor. and the former president has denied any long wrdoing. what happens next now? reporter: so the destruct attorney has given all the defendants until next friday to surrenderer. now we don t expect that the former president is going to object to that, so far he has cooperated in all the other cases negotiating a surrender, an initial appearance, going through the process of being arraigned. but then once they get past the procedure of all that, you can expect legal challenges to be filed. one of the key ones we re going to see is an effort to try to move this case from the state level to the federal level.
really appreciate the jup date. thank you. the rapper who shot meghan thee stallion in the the foot is face ing ten years in prison. the destruct attorney in los angeles announced a judge sentenced her yesterday afternoon. three years after an argument, she was shot in the foot while getting out of a vehicle. he pleaded not guilty but a jury convicted him in december. are we hearing anything from him? we have been following this since 2020. it has been in the headlines with meghan thee stallion writing a about this. take a listen to what his attorney has to say. this case to get a 10-year sentence is extreme. really just another example of somebody being punished for their celebrity status.