Good evening everyone, and welcome back to our special breaking news coverage, im laura coates on this a stunning night in american history. As the 45th u. S. President s criminally indicted now for the fourth time. Donald trump now accused of leading a criminal enterprise to overturn the 2020 election in georgia. Im kaitlan collins, its not just trump. 18 others have been charged alongside him in this 41 count indictment tonight, including his former Chief Of Staff, mark meadows. His former attorney, Rudy Giuliani, and the onetime mayor of new york. All 19 defendants are facing racketeering charges. I mean, the indictment states all, quote, refused to accept that trump lost and they knowingly, and willfully, joined the conspiracy to unlawfully change the outcome of the election in favor of trump. Joining me now here in d. C. Is cnns evan perez, also the washington correspondent of the atlanta journalconstitution, tea mitchell and is back as well. Tour former house judiciary special co
throughout the entire charging document itself. if you look at the names, jake and i were reading through the names earlier and we missed the second half of it initially as we were scanning it so quickly. if you look at the first half of the names, people at home would probably recognize a lot of them. donald trump, rudy giuliani, mark meadows, but it is that second half that you point out, more of those are going to be tied to what happened in coffee county. these are people who are pretty prominent county republicans in georgia, and now have just been indicted on charges of their estate. yeah, one that was just mentioned a few minutes ago i believe was a republican official in coffee county and who is caught on surveillance video that we reported almost a year ago, right opening the door to the elections office in the end of the restricted voting system area. what the former election supervisor