Hi, ari. Always good to see you. Thats right. Have a good show. Vicki so much. Great to see nicole and great to be back with you to start the week. We are covering quite a few stories. A lot of eyes are on georgia. We have live pictures from the courthouse. The grand jury is going over evidence about this long running 2020 investigation, including allegations that involve donald trump. Now we are going to follow the evidence of the facts and not get ahead of anything. Theres no reason to get ahead of it. It is the news, not prediction. What i can tell you is, there are good reasons why everybody is following death in the days ahead. That doesnt mean that anybody knows the timeline or how things are going to happen. Heres what we know. Some very crucial witnesses did enter the courthouse today and the judge did well today that part of the proceeding of any future indicted party could be televised. We are also watching to see if anything happens anyway that we can learn from and you know
letitia james took part in the deposition. cnn political reporter sara murray has more on all these developments. she s got new details on the fbi search of trump s florida home as well. reporter: donald trump wrapping up his appearance after nearly six hours at a new york deposition where he pleaded the fifth. which the former president once said was a move for mobsters. the mob takes the fifth. if you re innocent, why are you taking the fifth amendment? reporter: today trump changed his tune in a deposition led by letitia james office. part of a three-year civil probe into whether the trump organization misled lenders, insurers and tax authorities by providing false financial statements. for years they ve been going after my company. i once asked if you re innocent, why are you taking the fifth amendment, trump said in a statement. now i know the answer to that question. he claimed everyone in his orbit was a target, adding if there was any question in my mind, t
georgia because trump lawyers believe in embracing that several of the lawyers made the comments here. you have these rotating lawyers who are all linked in various ways and all of their aims and goals may be identical to what trump once. their interests don t match up. they may be concerned that some of the lawyers that are church and lawyer may end up turning on trump. turning to georgia, when of the most interesting reports it s about some of the evidence. the grand jury process is fairly close. we are all watching it but we don t always have that much more to say until we get hard news out of it but there was this reporting i want to read about with the prosecutors may have obtained what goes beyond even more than the smith case. they have messages showing
so they discussed ways to clean up the mess they were going to take, if as long as they could keep their king on the throne. professor? i think that s exactly right. the real question here for any crime is what s the state of the individual at the time they re undertaking the activity? and here it seems not only was this premeditated, not only did they have some understanding that what they were doing was beyond the pale, constitute a coup under any other circumstances, they tried to make provisions to ensure that they would not be on the hook afterwards. mr. moore, turning to georgia, where i mentioned they ve impanelled this grand jury, if somebody s watching and they say, well, i feel like i ve heard this one before. there s another probe into something donald trump did. there s a lot of noise about following the facts and the law. in new york, they had a couple d.a. candidates who all said pretty similar stuff.