Good evening everyone, and welcome back to our special breaking news coverage, im laura coates on this a stunning night in american history. As the 45th u. S. President s criminally indicted now for the fourth time. Donald trump now accused of leading a criminal enterprise to overturn the 2020 election in georgia. Im kaitlan collins, its not just trump. 18 others have been charged alongside him in this 41 count indictment tonight, including his former Chief Of Staff, mark meadows. His former attorney, Rudy Giuliani, and the onetime mayor of new york. All 19 defendants are facing racketeering charges. I mean, the indictment states all, quote, refused to accept that trump lost and they knowingly, and willfully, joined the conspiracy to unlawfully change the outcome of the election in favor of trump. Joining me now here in d. C. Is cnns evan perez, also the washington correspondent of the atlanta journalconstitution, tea mitchell and is back as well. Tour former house judiciary special co
Georgia, he met Misty Hampton, and somehow got her number and went back to the white house with it. And that was someone that they were on the phone with very quickly after that, obviously trying to get access to the Voting Software and Coffee County. When meadows went on to georgia, the Misty Hampton Coffee County story is interesting, just to remind folks of that story. Which cnn broke yesterday. And caitlin, you will jump in if i get any of this wrong. But it seems as though Coffee County Election Officials invited Trump Campaign officials to basically have access to their Voting Machines. Which according to prosecutors who is not illegal, is that right . Yes, it is not illegal. And she is somebody who basically had written this statement in and all of our colleagues are people who broke this fascinating story. But she had basically written the invitation to come and view the software, which they are not allowed to do. Those are messages that were then transmitted to Trump Campaign
parts of the administration interacts with the social media company and judge siding with the plaintiff on overreach and the administration pleasured platforms to address posts that contributed to vaccine hesitancy they said. the preliminary injunction specifically restraints employees from a number of agencies from meeting with social media companies or urging them in any way to remove, delete, suppress, or reduce content and posts involving criminal activity, national security threats and efforts to suppress voting and conduct cyber attacks impacting elections are exempt from the ban and white house says it is weighing the next steps and reviewing the ruling, which came down on a federal holiday. now tonight, the president will celebrate independence day on the south lawn after military families and this morning addressing a virtual without having gun violence this holiday weekend. they re part of the answer. they ll make a big difference. the president briefly touched
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country, i ve been horrified by the stories of sexual violence and incest involving young girls in northern uganda. it was very tough because some of these things i had not experienced. a father having sexual intercourse with a daughter. granddaughter. there s nobody who can really support the person who has been raped. to me, i look at thisjustice, it s a weakjustice. this region suffered a 20 year hideous insurgency, about 55 dead bodies myself. i describe it as the war was fought in the body of the woman and the woman became the battlefield. the war ended about 15 years ago. but is the post conflict legacyjust as horrific as the war itself? i was born in uganda and most of the early part of my life was spent in uganda. after the recent lockdown due to the covid pandemic. there were these horrific tales that came. out of this country about an increase in teenage pregnancy. but there seemed to be even more tales that were coming from northern uganda, particularly about abuse