County georgia. A grand jury bused in as prosecutors lay out their evidence that donald trump tried to steal the states electoral votes. Witness testimony moved up from tomorrow to today, the trump attacks on a key witness, and Text Messages that directly link the former president s legal team to a Voting System breach. And hawaii wildfire aftermath with the death toll close to 100, were hearing about government failures, failed fire hydrants, Warning Sirens that didnt go off, plus a claim that live power lines were not cut off. The raid on a small kansas newspaper, the editor targeted in the raid joins me this hour. Welcome to the lead. Im jack tapper. We start with our Law And Justice lead. Right now a grand jury is deciding whether to indict donald trump. It was expected to take at least two days for Fulton County District Attorney fani willis to produce her evidence. A number of key witnesses who had been told to show up tomorrow and testify have now been called in to testify. Thos
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,
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tomorrow have been called in early because things are moving so quickly. we know former republican lieutenant governor geoff duncan is inside the courthouse. another witness, george chidi, an independent journalist also scheduled to come tomorrow was also called in this afternoon. earlier today the grand jury heard from two former georgia lawmakers, both of these women state senators, both democrats. they both went in, expected to testify about a presentation that they received from former trump lawyer rudy giuliani that was ladened with conspiracy theories. these are all the witnesses that district attorney fani willis was expected to call, presenting her case laying out this conspiracy theory to overturn the election in georgia. we anticipated this would take two days. at this point it s unclear if they ll be able to move forward with possible indictments today or continue tomorrow. like you said, the courthouse closes at 5:00.
jordan represents has a higher homicide rate than new york city is this all just political theater, or is there a real conversation about crime to be had here it s great to see you yes, this is 100% political theory it s a conspiracy ladened smoke screen designed to distract the american people from the fact that donald trump broke the law in new york n washington, d.c. and in georgia and there will be several more cases to come most likely the problem with the democratic party often is we stick to facts and just a policy ladened discussion when the truth of the matter is whatever jim jordan says will be taken by fox news and the rest of the far right echo chamber and spread as gospel what needs to happen along this fact-driven and policy-driven line of argument is another