We know theyre still in there. Its after 5 00 right now. Paula, walk us through what happens if the grand jury decides to indict donald trump and or any of his allies. Reporter we expect the indictment also be for over a dozen people. The former president s lawyers say they do expect he will be among those indicted. We would expect the District Attorney would seek an indictment from the grand jury and it would go to the Clerks Office where we will most likely get our copy. Then it will be made public and well be able to read about the charges. One of the things thats unclear, jake, is when the former president would appear for his initial appearance and a potential arraignment. In the federal cases that happened quickly. Down in georgia, sources telling cnn that the former president s team expects it may take a little longer to have his first appearance down in georgia if hes indicted. Paula reid, thanks so much. As those witnesses continue to testify before the grand jury in atlanta,
Trump indictment. Also this hour, the urgent search for the missing in the charred ruins of mauis wildfire catastrophe. The Hawaii Governor will join us live with an update on the Disaster Response as the death toll could surpass 100 at any moment. Cnn has Exclusive New Reporting on former republican legal officials siding with the Special Counsel Prosecuting Trump in the january 6th case. Ill ask a retired judge turned trump critic why he and others believe its critical for the former president to get a speedy trial. Welcome to our viewers here in the United States and the United States and around the world. Im woman bliwolf blitzer, you in the situation room. Lets go right to georgia to the grand jury who may be poised to indictment donald trump. Sarah murray is just outside the courthouse where grand jurors have been hearing new testimony today. What do we know about the proceedings this hour . Reporter well, wolf, it has been a very busy day here at the Fulton County courthouse. We
Call to georgia s secretary of state brad raffensperger. i just want to find 11,780 votes, which is one more than we have because we won the state. reporter: to the fake electors to convened to cast illegitimate votes for trump and a voting systems breach in coffey county and former state senator bea wynn about conspiracy ridden presentations trump s attorneys gave before state lawmakers in december 2020. they had all of their witnesses that purportedly were telling the state legislators that they could basically choose the electors and could throw out the votes of millions and millions of georgians. and i wascy sitting there, i thought this can t be real.
Assault it, what a sexual assault is, but having to explain to a jury what rico means it s usually used against organized crime. fani willis has experience in this area. she has had a successful venture in doing this very type of thing. i want to get elliott s thoughts. normally, usual the special counsel, the federal special counsel has been focusing in, we presume, primarily on trump himself. but down in georgia, the district attorney seems to have a much wider. it s his decision to charge somebody with a crime. the special counsel has identified sixth co-conspirators. it is simply of question of
Donald trump was actually involved with this and leading it and helping them and trying to figure out how to do it, that s key. i think there s no doubt. i mean, to turn it to the other person. i nod at all of you and i do love you all. i m special. you are very special but trump might be very special in the eyes of pfani willis for th reason she s talking about. and the reason you see this, and we expect in addition to rico based on what you know that there will be possible election crimes. there are special election crimes in georgia and also general crimes like forgery and conspiracy and then rico. you use rico when you have overlapping conspiracies that may have different personnel. it provides an umbrella. it was invented in the law to deal with organized crime just for this kind of an alleged situation where you have three things. first you have this pressuring georgia election officials from