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
Historical context to all of this is gillian zelzer, professor and historian at princeton university. you can help put this into context for us. we often get into the habit of saying unprecedented, but this is unlike anything we have seen. what do you make of this potential fourth indictment? well, look, with the facts themselves, this is unprecedented. the indictment of a former president three, looks like four indictments, and also he happens to be the front-runner running against the incumbent president. you add all that up, it s not something we have seen before, and it should weigh heavily on the nation. and then there s just the substance, both in georgia and the last federal indictment. we re talking about allegations that the sitting president refused to allow for the peaceful transfer of power after having lost. i think we can t lose sight of