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
good evening. thanks so much for joining. us we are learning the names of some of the top republicans who have testified in multiple investigations involving the former president both in the federal case involving the misuse of classified documents and also the investigation in georgia into the former presidents attempt to overturn the election results there. cnn sarah murray joins us now with the details. so sarah, let s start with the fulton county georgia investigation. who has testified? well, anderson, we have learned that there are two prominent witnesses who have testified before the grand jury, and one of them is former georgia senator kelly lafleur. the other one is former white house lawyer pat cipollone. both of these are big gets for the district attorney in georgia. it gives you an indication of how wide-ranging the investigation is. whether with testimony to the federal grand jury investigating the mar-a-lago documents? we are learning this evening my co
top of my head. i was pushed backwards, and my foot caught this terrible hind me, and my chin hit the handrail, and then at that point i had blacked out. she was knocked unconscious, even though she was bleeding, and days from the traumatic brain injury, she had just suffered, somehow she miraculously returned to duty on that day. thousands of protesters directed to the capitol, fine by donald trump himself, quickly began to overwhelm the police. and as officer edwards try to hold that line, she saw a colleague in distress. it was bryan sicknick. i see movement to the left of me, and i turn, and it was officer sicknick with his head in his hands. he was ghostly pale. i look back to see would have hit him, would have happened, and that is when i got sprayed in the eyes as well. and officer sicknick was injured while trying to control the trump mob. he suffered two strokes, and died the next day. the assault on the capitol continued for hours. what i saw was just a wa
listening to her read out those names, when i was reading through it initially and a little bit we heard from her, reading mark meadows s name stirred out the most to me seeing that the former white house chief of staff had been indicted. when you think about the names that were, régis on the expected, but the others maybe not. just the sheer scope of all of it and what sticks in my mind is this notion, rather than abide by the legal process by which we are to challenge the election results, they chose and legibly criminal enterprise instead. it goes back to a point that got made earlier on your panel, kaitlan, about had down trump just done something different all these different players, we would be in a very different political landscape today. something even jack smith noted in his indictment, in the end and direction there. there is a legal avenue to challenge results ketones like. it s not just that you are stuck with us and that s it, there s a legal avenue. there is this a
about this i thought about this for a long time. why are you creating false business record? to what end is it? it is usually a tax deduction. so did they find out that the payment turned into a tax deduction and it would allow him, so the text mantle of him to régis tax burden. which is something they did a lot at the he saw this movie at the trial. it is a recent trump organization trial. so that happened. you have to wonder why they would create a false business record. michael cohen, we don t see, the new york times has his we don t see ten 99 painted minutes, which is how illegal fee would be accounted for. we don t see them going to him. there s no direct line where they filed this to the tax man. but there could be a lot of other ways to do it. rudy giuliani made a