Donald trump, now has ten days to surrender to authorities in georgia on charges tied to his efforts to overturn the 2020 election in georgia. It will be his fourth time booked on criminal charges. He wont be alone. The 98page indictment names 18 codefendants, including his former chief of staff, mark meadows. The 41 charges include racketeering and conspiracy. The atlanta area District Attorney fani willis says those 19 defendants in total plotted against the constitution which trump swore to protect and defend and abused the office, trump is of Course Running for once again. Cnns paula reed is at the courthouse in atlanta. Paula, this case is wider both in terms of number of defendants but also took a different legal path for charging this. Reporter thats right. A lot of key differences here. Not only in how its constructed. Fani willis pursuing a racketeering or rico case here. Rico laws were passed to dismantle organized crime. So shes charging former President Trump but 18 allies.
Important discussions we have had this week. The Supreme Court has agreed now to consider former President Trumps claim of president ial immunity in his federal Election Interference case. We it will further delay a potential trial. The high court has scheduled arguments for april 22nd, and a final ruling might not come until months later at the end of the term in june. If the court ruled in favor of trump the special counsels charges would be dismissed. The u. S. Court of appeals unanimously ruled trump does not have absolute immunity. The Supreme Court does affirmed that, the delays still would push the start of the trial probably into the fall. Lets bring in former litigator and msnbc Legal Correspondent lisa rubin, and former u. S. Attorney and msnbc legal analyst joyce vance. Good morning to you both. Lisa, lets pause for a moment, i think this was shocking used a lot of people, lets talk about what the decision is and what it is not, it does not mean the supreme agrees that donal
machine company dominion several weeks ago as fox news lawyers prepared for a courtroom showdown with dominion voting systems, they presented tucker carlson with what they thought was good news. they had persuaded the court to redract from a legal filing the time he called a fox news executive the c-word mr. carlson, fox news most watched primetime host was not impressed. he told his colleagues that he wanted the world to know what he had said about that executive in a private message the people said mr. carlson said comments he made about former president donald trump, i hate him passionately that were in the court documents, were said during a momentary spasm of anger, while his dislike of the executive was deep and enduring. the tensions between tucker carlson and fox news leadership had been simmering for some time the wall street journal also reports within fox s management, reservations had been mounting about risks mr. carlson presented for the network. some of the
are we using power tools? will: i get the power tool thing. i want someone to show us, this is what i want some tips on, how about cleaning the pumpkin out? everybody shows you how to to make the designs, my least favorite art e part, the kids don t like the part of scooping rachel: really? my kids love that. will: getting it scraped so there s no strings on the edges. everybody likes to do the cutting and the designs, nobody likes the actual manual labor rachel: i bet if you went online, you could find the hack yesterday there was a hack about opening it from the bottom up. will: yes. rachel: i m going to try that this year. kids do love it. will: they don t finish job. i guarantee you sean finishes the job. todd: so this is what i have to look forward to with the little ones? will: you re super excited, and you will do rachel: most of the work. will: 70% of the work. todd: sort of like yesterday. yesterday all about the ponies, i can t wait we take her to the
as the oath keepers. a new court filing is revealing the extensive planning of the far right malitia group, including a death list and attempts to obtain weapons ahead of january 6th. also today, former trump strategist steve bannon having a sudden change of heart. he faces possible jail time and now just days before his contempt trial, he says he is willing to testify before the january 6th committee after all. let s start with cnn congressional correspondent ryan nobles. what are investigators hoping to reveal to the public during tomorrow s hearing? reporter: i think it s twofold. first, they want to make it clear those right wing extremist groups that came to the capitol on january 6th, the oath keepers, the proud boys, they came here with a specific intent, and that was to cause chaos and even use violence if it meant accomplishing their goals. and they re going to show that there was premeditation here to basically establish the fact that what happened on january 6th