Friend, ana cabrera. Right now prosecutors have given the expresident and his codefendants until next friday to surrender. 19 men and women charged with 41 counts in a sweeping 98page indictment accusing them of trying to overturn georgias 2020 Election Results, and accusing them of violating georgias riccio act, something reserved for gangs and mobsters. It could be the televised trial of the century. If convicted, this could be the only case that trumps indictment so far he could not pardon himself for if he takes back the white house. We have a jampacked hour filled with reporters and legal analysts, and it starts right now. Lets get right to our reporters on the ground in atlanta. Msnbc news correspondent, blayne alexander, and garrett haake, and senior legal correspondent, Laura Jarrett here with us in new york. You have been so closely following this investigation. What Unanswered Questions are you still looking into . Reporter well, jose, we are looking towards what happens next
The criminal indictment weve covered in manhattan, florida, and washington, d. C. Mr. Trump continuing his unrelenting attacks against d. A. Fani will is throughout the morning, claiming that this prosecution is the latest, quote, witch hunt against him. Mr. Trump is also promising a press conference next monday morning, where he is going to release some reports that he says it will improve there was Election Fraud despite multiple court cases, saying he won the presidency fair and square. And the campaign as with previous indictments have addressed a flurry of Fundraising Emails to try to turn this latest legal woe to financial gain. Garrett haake is here, katie phang, Chuck Rosenberg, msnbc legal analyst lisa ruben and former fbi general counsel. Chuck rosenberg, power panel, and i will start with you if i can. When i read this social media post by donald trump, he promised a large complex and detailed report by monday, to refute this indictment. Is it bound with footnotes and where
Morning joe we can. Lets get to some conversations from this week that you might have missed an Arizona Grand Jury has indicted 11 of these local collectors, along with several other allies of donald trump, for their efforts to overturn the 2020 election. A 58 page indictment including conspiracy, fraud and forgery charges related to attempts, by the defendants, to change the Election Results of donald trump this was the scene on december 14th, 2020, when 11 people met at the Republican Party headquarters in phoenix to sign a certificate, claiming to be arizonas 11 electors, despite joe biden winning. What are you guys doing . You are the 11,000 votes probably broadcasting it. What are they thinking . What are they thinking . I just cant. Like okay, we are fraudulent electors. There is a fraud scheme going on here. Lets put the cameras on. Maybe they are providing evidence. They were thinking ahead three and half years down the road, they are really going to need this as evidence. Here
Believe in the cause, and those people are ripe for flipping. mark meadows is not named as an unindicted co conspiracy in the federal indictment, but he is named in other places there, and he s charged here in connection with what appears in the federal indictment. the only thing i can gather is he and his team didn t appreciate the criminal exposure he had in georgia and maybe was willing to roll the dice there. on the other happened it remains to be seen whether he is or is not a cooperator in the federal case. many of us feel he is because he s not named as a unindicted coconspirator. we just got a statement from one of the coconspirators alleged co conspirators in the indictment, he s a former trump
The georgia indictment comes almost two weeks after the former president was indicted by jack smith s probe and some of the suspected unindicted co conspirators in that case are now co defendants in the fulton county case. joining me now, washington post reporter, carol lehning and washington post national security reporter, devlin barrett. carol, how does this indictment from fani willis fit into the broader scope of the other cases surrounding former president trump? you know, i think, chris, the best way or the best item to compare it with is obviously special counsel jack smith s indictment of donald trump and reference to several unindicted