Welcome, everybody. Im neil cavuto. Glad to be back. My thanks to million colleagues for working so hard in my absence. Now to bryan llenas in fulton county, georgia with more on the fallout from that indictment that is having reverberations across the country. Bryan . Neil, good afternoon. No doubt this is the most wide ranging of the four indictments that former President Trump is facing. Of course, the grand jury late last night voting to indict the former president. 18 of his associates. The d. A. Here in fulton county, georgia, foni willis saying that they were operating as a criminal enterprise. Heres a snippet from that indictment. Defendants refused to accept that trump lost and they knowingly and willfully joined a Conspiracy Top unlawfully change the outcome of the election in favor of trump. Trump faces 13 criminal charges including a racketeering rico charge, which if guilty carries a fiveyear sentence, 25,000 fine or both. The other 18 defendants include his former chief o
andrea mitchell is on assignment traveling with secretary blinken. right now, countdown to the caucuses. just one week today as the republican candidates for president make their final push in iowa. meanwhile, president biden is on the trail in south carolina where he ll be speaking at mother emanuel church, the scene of the horrific hate crime in 2015. his message today, the hate that fueled the killing of nine worshippers still rages. at the pentagon, demand for answers grows after lloyd austin failed to tell the white house for days that he had been admitted to the icu. and a critical piece of the alaskan airlines flight has been found as it blasted off the plane mid flight, taking passengers belongings with it. we begin this very busy hour with the race for the white house. we are now just seven days away from the very first primary contest of this high stakes election year. the republican iowa caucuses. while there is still time, so far, it s shaping up to be a 2020
trial went through congress and he was acquitted, he shouldn t be tried for the se act. i reached out to his attorney in georgia. he sent me a statement basically saying this. president trump today has filed three persuasive motions seeking a complete dismissal of the inindictment to the fulton county d.a. s politically based prosecution. reached out to the d.a. s office. they re declining to comment on this as well. but this comes in the context of the d.a. s office wanting to start this trial in august. trump s attorneys had previously pushed back on that saying it would amount to essentially election interference saing that because it would come in the final week of the 2024 campaign and likely stretch through election day, they want to see that trial date moved, jose. thank you so much. lisa, what do you make of these new motions? jose, in some respects, this is much adieu about nothing in so far as these are arguments
months. on truth social today, trump said he would release a quote large complex detailed but irrefutable report on the election fraud in georgia next monday. brian kemp said the 2020 election was not stolen for three years now, anyone with evidence of fraud has failed to couple forward under oath and prove anything in a court of law. trump has until noon next friday august 25 to turn himself in. remember, cameras are allowed in court and also, neil, we have an update on what we talked about with martha recently. the fulton county, georgia clerk released a statement showing how a copy of the charges was released hours before this grand jury voted to inindictment. an identical copy. the clerk released a statement saying they were operating a
steve, good afternoon. trace, good afternoon. wore here in the fulton county courthouse where you can see there s stepped up security already. they have the orange barricades up in what could be possible unrest here if there s a possible inindictment against former president trump and perhaps some of his allies as well. a lot of court workers have been told to work from home during the month of august and judges have been told not to schedule trials during the week of august 7-14. the district attorney has said we re ready to go about her case and one of the key elements in this case could be a phone call. a phone call between then president trump in january 2021 and the chief election official here in georgia, brad raffensperger. it was during that call that the president asked raffensperger to try to find votes for president trump to give him the state of georgia, a state which joe biden won by just 11,000 votes, razor thin margin.