We ve turned this page in the indictment story. prosecutors allege trump was the rico leader, the tip of a criminal conspiracy to overturn the election. we know the defendants have surrendered along with trump for his booking and mug shot. now we don t know who s going to cooperate or turn. we just heard a lawyer talk about how that process could play out. but we do know one republican in georgia, sean still. he s not the first to pin it on the alleged rico leader. take georgia s republican party chair, david schaefer. he said the same thing. some legal experts think we are at the beginning of a process that could involve a lot more of that, whether it s accusing trump, testifying against him, or formally flipping. eyes are on the key defendants we ve been tracking, the lawyers who had direct contact with trump. it s one thing for an elector who s never met him, who s accused of elector fraud, and another thing for one of these people. remember, we ve also seen the video of clark and e
To continue. so that is all out there. i want to put up the sort of the circle of according to committee, the co-conspirators. i always take pains to mention, these people have been charged by the federal government. some of the transcripts are coming out tonight, for example, of clark and eastman. and giuliani has a ton of legal problems. i m curious what you ll be looking for when you eyeball some of the transcripts and the treatment of them. it s not every day that congress decides to say in public that they re referring people for the kinds of felonies. i mean it s really unusual. yes, the narrative that committee put out, the executive summary suggests that eastman at various points conceded that he knew that his scheme to prevent congress from sort fig the certifying the election was illegal i it will be interesting to see what the transcript says
She paid them, right. she played them. she worked them is what happened. butina is wrapped up with milwaukee county sheriff david clark. an nra association that went to moscow to meet with a group. butina s group paid $6,000 of clark s travel expenses. clark is a huge trump supporter, how significant is this? yeah, there s certainly money going back and forth. the deputy of justice was careful to do a very small and easily provable charge. she s just in court because chef acting as an agent and didn t register with the attorney general. there s all kinds of suggestions that especially through for shon, her handler, he s right now under sanctions and under investigation for funneling money to the nra.
Was part of an nra delegation that went to moscow to meet with butina s group, the right to bare arms. her group paid $6,000 of clark s travel expenses. i mean, clark is a huge trump supporter. how significant is this? yeah. i mean, there is certainly money going back and forth. the department of justice was careful to do a very small and easily provable charge. he is just in court because she was acting as an agent and didn t register with the attorney general, but there s all kinds of suggestions that especially through her handler he is right now under sanctions by the treasury department and under investigation for funneling money to the nra. underneath this more simple charge may lie all kinds of dirty money being funneled to the nra and some sort of back and forth to facilitate the political influence.