Staff, mark meadows, and his postelection attorney, Rudy Giuliani. They are accused of engaging in a conspiracy to commit crimes intended to reverse trumps loss in georgia in 2020. The 98page indictment lists 13 State Charges against trump himself including racketeering as well as false statements. Prosecutors claim trump and his codefendants, quote, refused to accept that trump lost and knowingly and willfully joined a conspiracy to unlawfully change the outcome of the election. District attorney fani willis wants the trial to start within six months. And unlike in Federal Court that trial could be televised. Lets begin at the courthouse in atlanta with cnns sara murray. And sara, this is a much more sprawling case both in terms of the number of defendants but also the nature and scope of the charges than what we saw in the Special Counsels case. Help lay it out for us. Reporter yeah, i think thats absolutely right. In these other federal cases we have seen donald trump largely charge
tonight on the reidout so look, all i want to do is this, i just want to find 11,780 votes, which is one more than we have because we won the state. turns out that wasn t the only call trump made to try to overturn his georgia defeat. with criminal charges possibly coming soon in georgia and new york, we need to talk about why the justice department is taking a back seat to those investigations plus, newly released january 6th video clearly refutes tucker carlson s phony narrative about the supposedly peaceful tourists january 6th committee member adam schiff joins me i ll also be joined by the journalist who was fired after privately calling out the desantis administration for propaganda and wait until you hear the scathing response from princess diana s brother after donald trump claimed she and the other royals used to kiss his big old bum. but we begin the reidout tonight with what is considered the most difficult element to prove in a criminal case, int
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On to the president, and there was no more no less than that. no more, no less than that. the washington post first reported that trump pressured and governor of arizona doug doocy to overturn the states election results, and the story has really interesting detail. the governor doocy told a donor leader, he was surprised at the special counsel jack smith hadn t reached out to him about the matter. cnn senior legal analyst elie honig is here to help break down all these legal threats. we don t know for sure that jack smith has not reached out to the governor, former governor of arizona. but if he hasn t, what would it signal to you that that is not something jacks mitt was interested in? if he hasn t, my first question, why is he waiting for. with all the focus on, georgia let s remember, this was a seven state strategy, including arizona. if i m in charge of this case, to meet governor doocy s testimony, even more important than brad raffensperger the georgia secretary of state. w
States have to carry the ball. because the justice department is cowards. i agree with charles blow because i m not an idiot, of course i agree with charles blow you should prosecute the case in a timely manner, but the timey manner was a year ago. because folks, and i have tried to make this point as clearly as i can, but time s arrow goes forward, and there s a timeline here that circumscribes what you can do to trump. that timeline is the 2024 election cycle we re talking right now about the cases in georgia let s say fani willis decides she s going to indict, and now she brings up another grand jury to do that indictment. that pushes us most likely until around may folks, the 2024 republican primary in georgia is on march 26th, 2024 you cannot spool up a trial against a former water salesman and president of the united states, donald trump, in the time available between now and