Do i tend to try the 19 defendants, yes. The calendar is getting quite crowded. You see some of the lawyers on whose advice she this is disgraceful and abuse of power by angry democrats who decided the rule of law its much bigger than watergate. It goes to the foundation of democracy. This is very different and much more serious and much more troubling. If you are just waking up this morning, were glad youre with us. Youre waking up to significant, historic news. Its true. Donald trump has been indicted again, this on Felony Charges for trying to overturn his 2020 election loss in the State Of Georgia and has 18 codefendants have also been charged. Including some of the prominent names, mark meadows, rudy giuliani. Theyre all facing rico, Racketeering Charges. Fulton County District attorney fani willis ordered trump and his alleged coconspirators to surrender voluntarily by next friday and turn themselves in. Rather than abide by georgias Legal Process for election challenges, the def
There are 17 other codefendants have until this friday to turn themselves in on charges of trying to overturn the results of the 2020 election in the state of georgia. joining us now former prosecutor in the fulton county da s office sara fleck and former district attorney in neighboring dekalb county gwen keys flemming also considering herself to be a mentor to fani willis. good to have both of you this morning. i want to start with you, sara, on something that i have been thinking. confirmation of the two big political stories of the day. one that trump will be turning himself in on thursday in this casened also that he s not going todebate. this is not a political question. are there specific exposures legally to trump participating in these debates? you have two former u.s. attorneys who doesn t think he should be the nominee, asa hutchinson and chris christie. is he exposes in some way by talking about the case in some way during the debate that could
Which made a potential target of willis investigation. a georgia judge then blocked willis from pursuing an investigation of jones. her political actions should disqualify her from doing that. the judge called the fundraiser a, quote, what are you thinking moment? and said the optics are horrific. but i should note, that same judge has also praised willis handling of this investigation in a ruling last week, he said, quote, the district attorney s office has been doing a fairly routine and legally unobjectionable job of public relations in a case that is anything but routine. joining us now is gwen keys flemming, considering herself one of fani willis mentors. thank you for taking the time. i think this gets at a point, there s been about 300 profiles written over fani willis over the course of the last two years. it becomes very easy to slate her into some hyperbolic category or another. tell people, as a district
Black protestors had an affect on the verdict. he seemed increasingly worried that george floyd s murder really had reignited a civil right s movement and his case might become part of that movement, too. now seven months after a guilty verdict following george floyd s murder, we have another guilty verdict, for these three men in georgia who claimed to be arresting a fellow citizen. what does it mean? is this a turning point? joining us now is gwenn keys flemming, a district attorney in dekalb county, georgia. thank you for being with us. i want to ask you how you think about this verdict? were the facts in the case so blatant that reasonable people would have expected to the defendant to be found guilty, or was this the case of a prosecution making a strong case and overcoming systemic bias in the system? i think it s a combination of both. and i m glad to be here. thank you for having me this evening.
The month before, when george floyd was killed, minneapolis police failed to initially report that derek chauvin knelt on floyd s neck for more than eight minutes. and when ahmaud arbery was killed near brunswick, georgia, last year, seasonal local journalist larry hobbs of the brunswick news knew that he needed to push for information because the police weren t sharing enough. so instead of relying on official statements hobbs filed a public records request. as hobbs told this show today, the less answers you give us, the more questions we ask. accordingly, he started to ask police, why a young man was shot dead in the middle of a sleepy neighborhood on a sunday afternoon. why an unarmed burglary suspect is shot dead in the middle of a public street and not, say, inside a burgled home? also, was there a conflict of interest since one of the suspects previously worked for the district attorney? well, his curiosity paid off. the public record request that hobbs filed allowed him to