Hello and welcome to our viewers joining us here in the United States and all around the world, i am rosemary church. We begin this hour here in the u. S. State of georgia where a grand jury has indicted donald trump for a historic fourth time for allegedly trying to overturn the States Election results in 2020. The grand jury approved every indictment presented by Fulton County district attorney, fani willis, on monday. The former u. S. President has been charged with 13 counts in the indictment, including a Racketeering Charge, 18 others have also been charged under the states racketeering laws for allegedly joining, quote, a conspiracy to unlawfully change the outcome in favor of donald trump. Now, those names include several highprofile individuals from trumps time in office including former white house Chief Of Staff mark meadows, Former Trump Attorneys Drew Giuliani and john eastman, and Top Justice Department official jeffrey clark, among others. Here is what Fulton Countys dist
Georgia, he met Misty Hampton, and somehow got her number and went back to the white house with it. And that was someone that they were on the phone with very quickly after that, obviously trying to get access to the Voting Software and Coffee County. When meadows went on to georgia, the Misty Hampton Coffee County story is interesting, just to remind folks of that story. Which cnn broke yesterday. And caitlin, you will jump in if i get any of this wrong. But it seems as though Coffee County Election Officials invited Trump Campaign officials to basically have access to their Voting Machines. Which according to prosecutors who is not illegal, is that right . Yes, it is not illegal. And she is somebody who basically had written this statement in and all of our colleagues are people who broke this fascinating story. But she had basically written the invitation to come and view the software, which they are not allowed to do. Those are messages that were then transmitted to Trump Campaign
Something in a different, you know, region of the country. it all can count towards my rico case. so it does. that also, what s really interesting here is, look at the attorneys that are named in this indictment? so many attorneys. so many. attorneys john eastman, sydney powell, rudy giuliani. just to name a few. it s a mötley crüe of attorneys, and remember, one of the defense we ve been seeing s defensive council. i was following the advice of counsel here, so i was really doing. think about the different schemes that are at play, and that are being charged. what this does now, we ll have them being charged, is that it puts at odds with donald trump with his counsel. because at some point, a fact finding mission has to ensue where you have to prove that this was either about his counsel or not. and finally, unlike the other indictments that we have seen, which we compared a lot, you have actual speech in the form of tweets and social media by the former president. there will
Charles eastman, marc randele meadows, john cheeseborough, jeffrey clark, jenna lyn ellis, ray stallings smith the third, robert david chilly, michael a roman, david james schaffer, sean micah pressure steel, stephen clifford lee, harrison william prescott floyd, treveyon see kuti, sydney kathrin powell, kathleen austin latham. scott graham hall, and misty hampton, also known as emily
Stephen cliff guardedly, harrison william prescott floyd, treveyon c kuti, sydney kathrin powell, kathleen austin latham, scott graham hole, and misty hampton, also known as emily s steven mays. every individual charged in the indictment is charged with one count of violating georgia s racketeer influenced and corrupt organizations act through participation in a criminal enterprise in folding county georgia and elsewhere to accomplish the illegal goal of allowing donald j trump to seize the presidential term of office beginning on january