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
He has successfully made all the charges against him part of his campaign to be re elected president , claiming as usual this is a witchhunt against him, accusing the prosecutor of political motives. I make decisions in this office based on the facts and the law. The law is completely nonpartisan. Thats how decisions are made in every case. The 13 charges against donald trump include racketeering, soliciting a public officer to violate their oath, conspiracy to commit perjury and conspiring to file false documents. Forgery. His legal Adviserjohn Eastman and personal lawyer Rudy Giuliani are among the 18 others charged as part of the widespread criminal enterprise. Frankly, we did win this election. As he refused to accept defeat, trump and his allies focused on georgia, claiming incorrectly that thousands of fraudulent ballots had been counted forjoe biden. Calling georgias senior Election Official, asking to find enough votes to tip the state his way. The trump teams lies, like the cl
Overnight former President Trump was indicted accused of trying to turn over the 2020 president ial elections. Not only trump, but 18 others are indicted. Each defendant is facing racketeering. In the indictment, he tried to convince one to change the election. Former President Trump calls is a witch hunt and trying to derail his campaign. Trump facing a charges of 91 charges in georgia, florida, new york and washington d. C. We have a ton to get to. Cnn this morning starts right now. If youre just waking up, this is significant. Donald trump and 18 codefendants are facing a slew of charges. They include Rico Racketeering charges that were meant to take down mob basses bosses and gangs. They say that he created fake electors and Ellie Breeching voting systems to try and find evidence of voter fraud. We have Team Coverage all morning. Well start live outside the Fulton County courthouse. Trump has been ordered to surrendered by next friday. Reporter Fani Willis Giving donald trump, jr.
Prosecutor will begin presenting her case to grand jury setting up a fourth possible indictment. And speaking of iowa, ron sdaens did not have a great time there. He was heckled several times by Trump Supporters and trolled by the former president s campaign. Also ahead, a Special Counsel is appointed in the doj investigation of hunter biden. Well explain the new development. And plus an update on the Catastrophic Maui Wildfire which is now the deadliest in more than history. Joe, the scenes are just staggering. Yeah, what a tragedy. Unspeakable tragedy. And it seems to have been a Perfect Storm. Winds blowing and whipping around, a lot of people saying they should have turned off the electricity. But the response from officials, that is how they were keeping the water pumps going. Really just again a Perfect Storm, a disaster of unspeakable proportions for the people there. And well be covering that obviously across the four hours. And also a lot going on in politics this past weekend
but one thing we ll try to him about is something i haven t discussed in a full segment on this program but i have suggested from time to time, that i do not see, given that presidents of the united states get lifetime secret service protection, i have not been able to see how a president, former president, can be sentenced to prison. that means a dozen secret service agents. you ve seen how many secret service agents go to court with him. how many have to go to prison with him? how do you do that? in what prison? how is that supposed to work? i have just as i think about it i have thought i thought it to be impossible. eric holder thinks it s possible. as attorney general used to be in charge of the bureau of prisons so finally we have someone who knows more about this than i do, which is pretty easy to find. those are some logistics i would like to hear about, lawrence, so i will be tuning in. finally we re gonna have that discussion. i m eager to do. it at long last.