Friend, ana cabrera. Right now prosecutors have given the expresident and his codefendants until next friday to surrender. 19 men and women charged with 41 counts in a sweeping 98page indictment accusing them of trying to overturn georgias 2020 Election Results, and accusing them of violating georgias riccio act, something reserved for gangs and mobsters. It could be the televised trial of the century. If convicted, this could be the only case that trumps indictment so far he could not pardon himself for if he takes back the white house. We have a jampacked hour filled with reporters and legal analysts, and it starts right now. Lets get right to our reporters on the ground in atlanta. Msnbc news correspondent, blayne alexander, and garrett haake, and senior legal correspondent, Laura Jarrett here with us in new york. You have been so closely following this investigation. What Unanswered Questions are you still looking into . Reporter well, jose, we are looking towards what happens next
Prosecute gangs or mafia crime families sums up the entire coup plot. Here is how District Attorney willis puts it last night. The indictment alleges that rather than abide by georgias Legal Process for election challenges, the defendants engaged in a Criminal Racketeering Enterprise to overturn georgias president ial election results. Now, her indictment of this Criminal Racketeering Enterprise begins with a very simple and clear statement, it goes like this. Quote, depth donald trump lost the United States president ial election held on november 3rd, 2020. Prosecutors allege that the entire coup plot was in service of reversing that one single, simple fact. They say that trump and his 18 codefendants along with 30 unindicted coconspirators, quote, constituted a criminal organization, whose members and associates engaged in various related criminal activities, including and not limited to false statements and writings, impersonating public officers, forgery, filing false documents, in
Developing this morning, threats to judge and jurors. New questions about the safety of the people working on the cases against donald trump. The scope of destruction in hawaii heartbreaking. The death toll from the wildfires still climbing and more than 1,000 people are still unaccounted for. There are new questions as to how the fire started. Were live on the ground in maui. Searching for front line fighters on facebook. Wagner turning to social media to recruit new soldiers for the war in ukraine. Im kate bolduan with sara sidner and john berman this is cnn news centralcentral. Developing right now. New chilling threats against a judge and jurors involved in cases against donald trump. This is what we know. Police say a trump supporter in texas is in custody after she allegedly threatened to kill the judge presiding over the 2020 federal election case if trump does not get elected in 2024. In georgia, new concern for the grand jurors who just issued an indictment against trump. Phot
Its all expected to start no sooner than x thursday, after the first president ial debate in milwaukee, wisconsin. On that note, nbc news is also reporting that after quite a bit of back and forth, donald trump has officially decided not to attend that first debate, which is being hosted by fox news. Instead, trump is seeking a sitdown interview with the former fox news host Tucker Carlson as a means of counter programming the republican debate. This is not something that fox and the rnc can be happy about at all, and it is shaping up to be another chapter and the long running saga between donald trump and fox news, the network that helped make donald trump president in the first place. Let me step back a little bit here, do you remember the first time trump ever participated in a republican primary debate . It was august of 2015, and that the bay, much like the coming on, was hosted by the Republican National committee at fox news. Meghan kelly was one of the moderators. When she aske
Thats what we have all these prosecutions happening across the country. Jenna griswold, always great to see you. Thanks for being with, us thanks for the things you do to keep our elections actually safe. She is the Secretary Of State, for colorado. Coming up in our next hour, were gonna call to order a Special Edition of the Velshi Banned Book Club. Ominous discuss with two call scholars, one of americas most important most divisive documents, the constitution of the United States of america. Were gonna dig deeper into the section of that same constitution that legal experts say disqualifies donald trump from holding the office of the president ever again. Another hour of velshi begins right now. Right now. Good morning, its saturday, august 19th. Im ali velshi. In the span of just 12 months, the twice impeached President Donald Trump has been charged with a total of 91 felony count. Stemming from criminal cases against. Tim he remains firmly at the top of the field of the republican