legal experts tonight. we re discussing rico is a powerful charge because it is so broad. it is one of the broadest laws in the nation, the way georgia uses it, as the washington post explains, because prosecutors can weave together alleged crimes, violations of state and federal laws, activities in other states, the law as this d.a. knows well, does not require a defendant to set foot in georgia to be charged. why? because rico is that broad, you do need, of course, something to happen in the state, in georgia, but you could be a person who stayed out of state. maybe you re a busy co-conspirator. maybe you re a coward and send other people to do things for you. under the georgia state rico statute, a long as some people have committed these crimes of some kind inside the state, other people can be looped in. that s one of the ways d.a. willis came out with this strong, broad set of charges last night rounding up these 19 defendants. they re not all household names. i want
respond to the doj s request for protective order. d.c. judge says, monday s deadline stands. earlier today, trump s team had asked for three more days to respond. again, the judge just denied that request. the doj, filing includes trump s ominous truth social post last night that read, quote, if you go after me, i am coming after you. trump also called special counsel jack smith a, quote, deranged human being and a gop dinner in alabama. if the judge does grant the protective order, trump won t be allowed to share testimony or any other trial materials with the public. this comes as one of the top witnesses against trump is already being harassed. former vice president, mike pence. in new hampshire, heckled with names like traitor, just days after the doj revealed he took careful notes on trump s coup attempt. you didn t uphold the constitution. you committed treason. you committed treason! you committed treason! hey pence on the fence. rolling stone reports, the attacks
someone with the temperament of donald trump is not in charge of the law in our country. because you would be in jail. after all those years of lock her up, trump and his rapidly shrinking inner circle don t see the hypocrisy of whining about the possibility of trump going to prison. as his lawyers test out long shot defenses for the serious charges he faces. and vindication is complete in tennessee. the two expelled state reps win special elections to keep their seats. one of them, justin j. pearson, joins me tonight. we begin tonight with one of the most striking aspects of donald trump s third arraignment yesterday. besides the fact that a former president of the united states has been arraigned for crimes three times. and it is that all of his frenzied truth social posts and for all of his republican speechifying and about political prosecution, the man who showed up in a washington courtroom on thursday was basically alone. none of his family came to support him, n
our special breaking news coverage continues now of the third, he has a third, criminal indictment of former president donald trump. i m laura coates. remember. not the news tonight, still stunning, even though people expect an indictment to come right now it is here. we have believed it sink in. the 45th president indicted by a grand jury and jack smith s investigation into efforts to overturn the 2020 election. and it s not lost on anyone that, while trump is facing charges over the last election, he is, of course, in the middle of his reelection campaign, flora. this is the third time, the third time that donald trump has been criminally indicted informants at this point? special counsel jack smith charged him in the classified documents probe in june, and the manhattan grand jury charge of the former president for business fraud back in march and just listen to what special counsel jack smith had to say tonight. the attack on our nation s capital, on january six 202
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