Of manhattan, alvin bragg. I want to give you one piece of context here. Thats an individual at a Law Enforcement level whos not been nationally famous. Indeed, most people around the country following the show in utah, for example, wouldnt be able to name the random d. A. S in random cities. Yet, this is the d. A. That donald trump has been publicly targeting since the manhattan d. A. Indicted donald trump. Now i say with precision because thats a fact. Law enforcement is not making any direct link, causal or otherwise yet but this is the environment were in. Msnbc reporting this manmade to trip to utah and discussed preparing camouflage and a sniper rifle. Then he called d. A. Bragg a hack, brought up a Conspiracy Theory by george soros and discussed a plot to somehow assassinate bragg in a Parking Garage according to these charging documents. The fbi is reviewing the shooting. So, how do you go from being an unknown lawyer to being elected d. A. , to being caught up at a president i
This is cnn breaking news. This is a live look outside of the federal courthouse in washington, d. C. Grand jurors have been Hearing Evidence today in the Special Counsels january 6th probe. They were just seen leaving for the day and we are standing by to find out if they voted on whether to hand up an indictment for donald trump. Sources telling cnn that the former president and his advisers are right now preparing for a Potential Indictment. Cnns paula reid is joining us now on that. Paula, what are you hearing . Reporter so, we know that the grand jury that has been Hearing Evidence in the Special Counsels investigation into efforts to overturn the 2020 election, they have been seen leaving the building, but one important person stayed behind and that is the grand juror foreperson. That is significant, because that is the only member of the grand jury that is needed to return an indictment. Now, at this point its unclear if they have voted to indict the former president , or anyone
that s a better term than fake votes, with the smiley face. again, if this were a movie or a story or a play or a cartoon, you could dismiss you all. this is keystone cops. clownish. but this was all quite real. and smiley face or not, messaging or not, spin or not, we know what it led to. we know why it s indicted as a coup conspiracy. mr. epshteyn discussed the plan as well on the beat. i was part of the process to mick sure there were alternate electors for when as we hope the challenges to the seat electors would be successful. everything that was done was done illegally by the trump legal team according to the rules and under the leadership of rudy giuliani. i should mention i ve invited mr. epshteyn to return. that s an open invite, as we re
hear an indictment has indeed, been returned. thank you so much. jim. major potential indictment pending here in washington, another major indictment pending possibly in georgia. this, of course, involving donald trump as well and learning the fulton county district attorney fani willis has issued subpoenas to a former state lawmaker as well as an independent journalist, a strong signal she does intend to seek indictments in her criminal probe of trump because those witnesses relate to efforts to put a fake slate of electors in georgia to overturn the results of the election there. cnn s sara murray joins me now. these newest subpoenas point, it seems, to her focus on this attempt to seat fake electors there. biden won the state, an attempt to seat electors that would have shown trump falsely won the state. reporter: yeah, i think that that is one prong of her investigation, and, again, this
alternate attempt to go outside the law and submit an alternative slate is indeed something that wasn t only a coordinated effort that perhaps brought federal legal violations in but was really an effort to, again, undermine our ability in michigan to do our jobs to effectively communicate the accurate results of the election to congress for the electoral college vote on january 6th. okay. i just want to ask one more question drilling down into what they may be trying to play off of here when they make these claims. the process requires the winning candidate s party in each state to nominate elector, and they are then certified by governors. those votes are counted in congress on january 6th. so secretary, the law seems clear. the winning party gets to seat electors. is there any loophole somewhere that facilitates this alternate reality that those we re talking about on my friend ari s show. no, i think it s important to