Do i tend to try the 19 defendants, yes. The calendar is getting quite crowded. You see some of the lawyers on whose advice she this is disgraceful and abuse of power by angry democrats who decided the rule of law its much bigger than watergate. It goes to the foundation of democracy. This is very different and much more serious and much more troubling. If you are just waking up this morning, were glad youre with us. Youre waking up to significant, historic news. Its true. Donald trump has been indicted again, this on Felony Charges for trying to overturn his 2020 election loss in the State Of Georgia and has 18 codefendants have also been charged. Including some of the prominent names, mark meadows, rudy giuliani. Theyre all facing rico, Racketeering Charges. Fulton County District attorney fani willis ordered trump and his alleged coconspirators to surrender voluntarily by next friday and turn themselves in. Rather than abide by georgias Legal Process for election challenges, the def
Good morning, everyone. Its friday. Were glad youre with us. Its been quite a week for this country. Quite a week. Its framing what is going to be ab intense consequential months ahead. Lets get started with five things to know for this friday, august 4th. Sour, defiant, we have new reporting this morning about Donald Trumps State Of Mind after he was indicted for the third time in four months. The former president proclaiming his innocence and accusing the Special Counsel of leading a political persecution. Also new overnight, democratic lawmakers want to watch the trial. They want a judge to allow cameras in a federal courtroom. The July Jobs Report will come out. A key number for the fed. Also this morning a reenactment of the Parkland High School shooting. As part of a lawsuit against the officer who failed to enter the build whg a gunman killed 17 people. Two sailors under arrest and have been indicted for allegedly sending sensitive Military Information to chinese Intelligence Of
When o it s not only the speech, we can talk about anything. it s the action which translates the speech into conduct. and there are, what, 160 something acts that it lists that move it from, hey, let s just talk about this to let s get it done. and so it s hard to argue with regard to the specificity of this indictment, what the district attorney did to matching the facts to the laws that were broken to say this was just a political enterprise particularly when you had a special grand jury of 75 witnesses may of 22 to january of 2023 and actual grand jury who could issue an indictment issue the indictments. it s part of our process that s really a sad thing to see. but this is our reality. people often can forget you don t even need to carry out all of the acts for a conspiracy. it just is the conspireing that is the cream. let s listen sara murray, our colleague, questioning fani willis last night. have you had any contact with the special counsel about overlap between these case
What is and is not criminal. speech is not criminal. you can complain. you can lie. it says that in the indictment. you can say whatever you want. but when it crosses the line into conduct, into let s round up 16 people from the state of michigan, have them claim they are the electors and sign a form and send those forms into the archives and the senate and the secretary of state, then you have crossed the line from speech into conduct. so i don t think this is what kevin mccarthy was trying to do. but if you want to he get it is wrong at the end when he says it s all thought. trump thought he spoke, put he also took action. that s the distinction. again, i would like to note that al gore and hillary clinton conceded. they didn t try to force to overturn votes along with what you re talking about. didn t start a riot. but that s not when he s charged for. this is not about an insurrection or the attack on the capitol. i want to ask we were talking about this during the break. e