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Both legal perts have disdegreed with that position. not least because the federal charges he s facing are not analogous to those he face during his pooemt. that s where we start today with national investigative reporter carol len i guess. plus lead investigator tim haity and at the table former acting assistant attorney general for national security at the department of justice mary mccord. tim, let me start with you. what do you make of the arguments trump s lawyers are making here? they are making the same argument again and again and again. they are the same arguments that mark med doses made in georgia. they are the same arguments that witnesses made when faced with select committee subpoenas, which is everything that happened was connected to the official business of the white house. and that s just not accurate. again, not everything a the president does, not everything a ....
Going to play out. it is an evidentiary hearing which means that it could take a little while, and we could potentially see witnesses called on one or both sides. we know that the fulton county district attorney fani willis has lined up four potential witnesses for her presentation as she prepares to say that whatever mark meadows was doing around the 2020 election had nothing to do with his role as the former white house chief of staff, and she has called former georgia chief of state brad raffensperger who president trump had called to ask for more votes, and also, georgia watson who heard from mark med dose and donald trump is on the roster as well as two attorneys mark hilbert and alex kauffman who were on the phone with mark med dose and donald trump in between brad raffensperger, so it is ....
Wants his case moved from state court to federal court, and he wants the charges dismiss and making the argument to attack the case in court aggressively and whether or not donald trump is going with him, he is saying that he is worksrking at the bet of the president. mark meadows is working to jump out in front to get his case dismissed. thank you, katelyn polantz. she is there in atlanta for us. and now, sticking and the point of the moves being made by mark med dose and the legal team, and taking nit pieces, because it is fascinating, and part of the filing they brite this stripped of the state s gloss, the underlying facts detail the underlying duties of the chief of state and contacting the state officials on the president s behalf, visiting a government building or setting up a phone call for the president with a state official and only by the virtue ....
Man, on former president trump. while he lists other coconspirators, he did not charge anyone else. here the former president is charged alongside 18 other people, including some of his closest advisers like former chief of staff mark meadows and rudy giuliani. giuliani is referenced in the special counsel s indictment. he is coconspirator one, but he was not formally charged. and mark meadows was hardly mentioned at all in the indictment, but he features prominently here, which makes sense because the january 6th committee concluded that when it comes to the alleged conspiracy, all roads run through mark med dose. we got to hear from one of the witness who is testified yesterday. former state senator explained how she sees the comparison between the federal and state prosecutions. let s take a listen. i was there to really kind of ....
There was no document. well, he said in that audio recording, this is a classified document. i can t declassify it because i m not president anymore. but more than that, i think the context about what the grand jury heard about corroborating evidence is important. you mic a great point. he s arguing i didn t have the document. hi a pile of papers. you hear papers shuffle ing. one of the key quotes from the recording not previously disclosed is that he says, these are the papers. this is secret. and we know it from our reporting that investigators have spoken to one person in that room. there were two aids and two people working on the autobiography of mark med does. they know what this document is. they have a lot of ways to corroborate exactly what happened in that room, which is why cnn reporting keeps revealing just how extensive the evidence is that the special counsel has. absolutely. ....