Significant, this evidence linking members of trumps legal team, to the breach of a Voting System there. Jessica, these Text Messages add to a growing body of evidence that links Donald Trumps legal team to this Voting System breach here in georgia that happened on january 7th, 2021. More specifically, it links them to this effort to secure written invitation from a local election official there, essentially allowing them, in their minds, to speenter the Election Office and no election official is allowed to let anyone have access to Voting Systems. But trumps team and lawyers were trying to convince this election official to provide a letter of invitation. And these Text Messages show us how they were involved in the planning, and how down from Rudy Giuliani to sidney powell, how they were kept in the loop on the state level as they worked to secure this Written Letter of invitation, and ultimately access to the Voting System there is in coffee county. This is 200 miles south of downt
Today on Inside Politics, what comes after three . Indictment number four, maybe. Today Fulton County prosecutors start presenting evidence as soon as tomorrow. They hope to secure a sweeping indictment against former President Donald Trump and those who aided and abetted the Conspiracy Theory to steal the 2020 election. Plus, this is what you will get, a biden president ial run dogged by hunter biden legal problems. Democrats fret as lawyers for the president s son insists an Election Year trial is not inevitable. And republicans get a close up with iowa voters. Who impress snd who disappointed . Did ron desantis do both . Iowas Republican Party chairman joins me live in just a few minutes. Im jessica dean in for dana bash. Lets go behind the headlines at Inside Politics. Up first today, the clock ticks toward another potential Trump Indictment and today action in georgia. That bus and the caravan of police surrounding it whisking grand jurors to work. The heightened security comes wi
Development linking trumps legal team to a Voting System breach in a rural georgia county. Zach, what can you tell us . Reporter fred, coffee county, georgia is heavily republican where trump won over 70 of the vote there. But after the 2020 election, allies of donald trump and his attorneys tried to get access to a Voting System there and ultimately were successful in that. And these new Text Messages are in the possession of prosecutors now lay out that plan and connect trumps attorneys like sydney powell, Rudy Giuliani to this Planning Process and effort to get access to Voting Systems. It lays out how in the days before the breach, even before 2021, the attorneys were trying to get written information from a local official there. Connecting some of the dots showing this was more of a topdown effort to get access from machines rather than just a sporadic random oneoff. Trumps attorneys now more connected to this breach than we knew previously. So how are spinks expected to play out
District. reporter: lawler says he s appealing to moderates. i ve won twice in two to one democratic districts. when the president can a i m to westchester and he said on stage i m the type of republican he could work with. reporter: when the new york freshman voted to rescind a pentagon policy reimbursing personnel traveling for abortions. so he s totally fine with women in the military fighting for his freedom, but he won t even protect their rights. reporter: lawler defends his votes. using taxpayer funds to pay for travel related to abortion services we don t do that? er he could soon be in a difficult spot if the house begins an impeachment inquiry into biden. i think for me with respect to impeachment, we are not there yet. reporter: another complication the prospect that donald trump could be atop the ticket as he faces criminal charges. mike lawler cannot run away
From donald trump. this is a district that rates donald trump. reporter: do you think trump deserves to be in jail? i think trump deserves to be in prison. let s leave that up to the juries to decide. i think donald trump s conduct post election was wrong. it was wrong. reporter: but not saying if he would back trump as the nominee. would you support trump if he is the nominee? look, at the end of the day the republican primary voters are going to choose who the nominee is. i want the party to move in a different direction. reporter: though, he has his limits. if he s convicted he should not be running for public office, period. reporter: lawler says jones who used to represent a more liberal new york district is out of step. you are not a pragmatist, you are a political hack. reporter: jones primary opponent says this. he s taken positions that i think are going to cause him problems in a general election. of course, we need to end