Willis to explain how all 19 cases there would possibly, or could possibly, be tried together. That is a tomorrows news tonight. Plus, what is the strategy of those 19 defendants Behind The Scenes in the georgia r. I. C. O. Case and are they getting a little bit of a preview of the governments case . Well tell you all about it. And, listen to what Georgia Secretary Of State Brad Raffensperger told Anderson Cooper tonight. Weve got much more to come everyone, on all of that, but i want to begin with all of the fast moving developments tonight in the criminal case against donald trump. Joining me now is former Trump White House lawyer james scholz and Georgia Prosecutor chris timmins. Im glad to see you both here, gentlemen. Lets begin with you here, jim, because trumps lawyers are honing in on this comment that was made by judge chutkan in a case of a rioter from january six. Does that argue meant stand up . The filing says this, the bugle mob that capital were there in fealty and loyal
Election. that letter to georgia, which was first drafted to georgia but they intended to send it to multiple states, that was not theoretical. it was drafted. here is jeff clark, head of the environmental division, the civil division, jeff clark is saying, let s send out this letter to georgia. it should be signed by the attorney general and the deputy attorney general. let s get this out there. let s do it fast. this was a scheme with trump. in today s report from the senate judiciary committee, we learn that the attorney general at the time was told by jeff clark that if he did sign on to that crazy letter to georgia, then he could stay on as attorney general. he was told if he didn t sign on to it, he would be taken out. he would be replaced as attorney general by jeff clark. by the guy who wrote the georgia letter, the guy who concocted and was pursuing this whole
Committee is investigating. this preliminary report tells us a lot of alarming things we did not know before about how the justice department ended up right in the middle of all of this stuff. some ways unwitting and some ways witting. some of what emerges really is just remarkable. this guy jeff clark, who was given b.j. pak s cellphone number and he was saying who s going to call me? why is he going to call me? jeffrey clark, unknown justice department official. he was the head of the environmental division. they made him acting head of the civil division for a short time. we now know in detail that he does appear to have launched a plot with trump in which they were going to have the justice department assert that there were ongoing serious investigations into serious allegations, serious and credible allegations of election
Your top priority. i m giving you these allegations that i want to become your first priority as an investigator. you re the federal prosecutor. do this for me. that s what bill barr did to b.j. pak with rudy giuliani s allegations about voter fraud in georgia, and pak said, yes, sir, you re the attorney general. do you want me to make it my priority? of course, i will. he uses his office and resources to go start investigating things. pak goes on to say as far as he knew, the division that handles crimes thought that this giuliani stuff in georgia was not a substantive matter and, therefore, should not be investigated by the justice department, but bill barr apparently overruled that main justice and said, no, i m telling you personally do it anyway, directly, penally on the phone, that you need to look into this as a top priority, and then i m going to go to the white house with it.
Counsel looked into ahead of january 6 and the certification of the election. that letter to georgia, which was first drafted to georgia but they intended to send it to multiple states, that was not theoretical. it was drafted. here is jeff clark, head of the environmental division, the civil division, jeff clark is saying, let s send out this letter to georgia. it should be signed by the attorney general and the deputy attorney general. let s get this out there. let s do it fast. this was a scheme with trump. in today s report from the senate judiciary committee, we learn that the attorney general at the time was told by jeff clark that if he did sign on to that crazy letter to georgia, then he could stay on as attorney general. he was told if he didn t sign on to it, he would be taken out. he would be replaced as attorney general by jeff clark. by the guy who wrote the georgia