Staff, mark meadows, and his postelection attorney, Rudy Giuliani. They are accused of engaging in a conspiracy to commit crimes intended to reverse trumps loss in georgia in 2020. The 98page indictment lists 13 State Charges against trump himself including racketeering as well as false statements. Prosecutors claim trump and his codefendants, quote, refused to accept that trump lost and knowingly and willfully joined a conspiracy to unlawfully change the outcome of the election. District attorney fani willis wants the trial to start within six months. And unlike in Federal Court that trial could be televised. Lets begin at the courthouse in atlanta with cnns sara murray. And sara, this is a much more sprawling case both in terms of the number of defendants but also the nature and scope of the charges than what we saw in the Special Counsels case. Help lay it out for us. Reporter yeah, i think thats absolutely right. In these other federal cases we have seen donald trump largely charge
president or running for a cabinet position and not actually for the presidency. and it s going to be i think after this debate there will be a lot of clarity on who really wants to be president and who just wants a position in the cabinet. well, one final question. donald trump has certainly proven at least with gop voters to be teflon on a whole range of issues going from access hollywood right up to his fourth indictment last night. as a politician is this trump specific in your view, or has he fundamentally changed the survivability of, well, a whole host of personal, professional, political crimes and alleged crimes? look, i think he has moved the window a little bit so that more people can get away with more things. there s no doubt about it. i mean, and that s a sad thing in our government. i think he is uniquely positioned to get away with almost everything in certain people s minds. i m not sure if it s an attitude issue, if it s just how long