Staff, mark meadows, and his postelection attorney, Rudy Giuliani. They are accused of engaging in a conspiracy to commit crimes intended to reverse trumps loss in georgia in 2020. The 98page indictment lists 13 State Charges against trump himself including racketeering as well as false statements. Prosecutors claim trump and his codefendants, quote, refused to accept that trump lost and knowingly and willfully joined a conspiracy to unlawfully change the outcome of the election. District attorney fani willis wants the trial to start within six months. And unlike in Federal Court that trial could be televised. Lets begin at the courthouse in atlanta with cnns sara murray. And sara, this is a much more sprawling case both in terms of the number of defendants but also the nature and scope of the charges than what we saw in the Special Counsels case. Help lay it out for us. Reporter yeah, i think thats absolutely right. In these other federal cases we have seen donald trump largely charge
Judiciary committee, who just said, this is a witch hunt, in all caps, against president trump. he did nothing wrong. we see that echoed by the rank and file up on capitol hill. i just spoke with morgan griffith, who was on capitol hill briefly opening the house chamber for a pro forma session. and he said he hasn t even read the indictment, jim, because he just views this as more of the same, a kind of pile-on. he said that he might get to it eventually, he might read through it. but when i pushed him on whether or not he thought that joe biden actually won the state of georgia, he said he didn t really even know. and i think that just speaks to the reality of so many house republicans and rank-and-file members as well as their base voters, that they view this moment as really just an us against them fight with democrats. they are not looking into the ni nitty-gritty details as we heard from morgan griffith. we should note that the republican governor of georgia, brian kemp, jus