Who will address this indictment. We are being told that News Conference will take place in about 19 minutes. Lets get you live outside the courthouse to matt finn. He is in atlanta with the braking allegations. What do we know. Reporter we are looking through the Indictment Documents right now. They do read that donald trump and some of his associates including Rudy Giuliani and mark meadows have been arrested and charged in this indictment. There is a long list of various charges including racketeering, false statements and solicitation of a violation of an oath by a public officer. We a reading to this right now. We will update you much more throughout the coming hour or two. Throughout the day, there was a lot of anticipation or questions about who might be named in this indictment if any of Donald Trumps associates would be listed. We know that many of them are. There is a log was including some of his former attorneys. We are waiting on the Press Conference from the Fulton County
The deadline is set for trump and his 18 codefendants to turn themselves in in georgia, which is why everyone is keeping close watch on the Fulton County jail for any and all to surrender. The death toll is rising in the deadliest u. S. Wildfire in a century. 106 people have been killed in maui, but only a handful identified because the Inferno Made Human Remains largely unrecognizable, and now there are new critical questions about what may have sparked some of those wildfires. For the first time north korean officials go public on u. S. Army private travis king. They claim he is seeking refuge there, in part due to Racial Discrimination in the u. S. Military. Im john berman with sara sidner and kate bolduan. This is cnn news central. The georgia jail where donald trump and his 18 accused coconspirators are expected to surrender is open and ready for bookings. In fact, the sheriff has made clear its open 24 7, meaning any defendant at any time could turn themselves in. Trump has not i
Include possible coconspirators. What youre watching is the cover of that page of the indictment if we can put that up on the screen. That would be great. Here with more, we go back to Law Professor and fox news computer jonathan turley. Jonathan, im looking at that. If youre looking at the document that made it to the media talking about ten specific indictments. How do you read it as your background as the great Law Professor that you are . Youre talking about ten indictments, it has not profile of a racketeering case. Thats where willis gained her fame as a local prosecutor. You often will have large numbers of people linked in a conspiracy. To make out that case you have to esta conspirators. Few crimes are on a predicate crime list, the basis for racketeering charges. In this case theyre likely to use crimes like fraud and combine all these ago force in a large comprehensive conspiracy. Thats the most likely thing here. The problem is not that racket, the rico statutes were design
Into the former resident and his aides in relation to the 2020 election. We can bring you some brace in rooms expect Breaking News that the Reuters News Agency says prosecutors have charged donald trump with violations of the georgia reco act, charged with a number of counts including ordering the first degree. Rico act. Including the former trump aide mark meadows and his attorney Rudolph Giuliani and another attorney of the former president , john eastman as well also facing charges. Details on this ijust coming into us as you Arejoining Us and here in the studio with me, we have our North America correspondent. While youre waiting for this Press Conference to get under way, what we know so far in terms of whats happened today and right now . It terms of whats happened today and right now . And right now . It looks like these are and right now . It looks like these are sweeping and right now . It looks like| these are sweeping charges against not only donald trump but some of his clo
Trump lawyer rudy giuliani, former white house chief of staff, mark meadows, former white house lawyer, john eastman, and a Formerjustice Department official, jeffrey clark. The charge sheet refers to the defendants as a quote criminal organization. The Indictment Document says mr trump knowingly and willingly joined a conspiracy to unlawfully change the outcome of the election in georgia, and elsewhere. The indictment marks the fourth time mr trump has been criminally charged this year. Lets take a listen to what Fulton County District Attorney fani willis said a short time ago. The indictment alleges that other than abide by georgias Legal Process for election challenges, the defendants engaged in a Criminal Racketeering Enterprise to overturn georgias president ial election result. Subsequent to the indictment, as is the normal process in georgia law, The Grand Jury issued Arrest Warrants for those who were charged. I am giving the defendants the opportunity to voluntarily surrender