Significant, this evidence linking members of trumps legal team, to the breach of a Voting System there. Jessica, these Text Messages add to a growing body of evidence that links Donald Trumps legal team to this Voting System breach here in georgia that happened on january 7th, 2021. More specifically, it links them to this effort to secure written invitation from a local election official there, essentially allowing them, in their minds, to speenter the Election Office and no election official is allowed to let anyone have access to Voting Systems. But trumps team and lawyers were trying to convince this election official to provide a letter of invitation. And these Text Messages show us how they were involved in the planning, and how down from Rudy Giuliani to sidney powell, how they were kept in the loop on the state level as they worked to secure this Written Letter of invitation, and ultimately access to the Voting System there is in coffee county. This is 200 miles south of downt
thanks for being with us. i m fredricka. cnn newsroom continues with jim acosta right now. newsroom. i m jim acosta in washington. we re following multiple developing stories this hour. zip ties and duct tape. a new cnn exclusive reporting into the hammer attack on paul pelosi. we re learning what else the suspect took as he shouted, where s nancy. in south korea, at least two citizens are among 154 people killed in a massive crowd surge in seoul. we re live on the ground again in the capital city, as investigators now try to piece together exactly what led to this horrific tragedy. but first, we begin with breaking news out of india, where at least 60 people, including some children, are dead after a pedestrian bridge collapsed. more than a dozen other people were injured when the bridge fell into the river below. you can see it, just incredible footage. the video from the scene shows people desperately bringing to the fallen structure. it s not clear what caused the co
Today. we need to prioritize accountability to understand what happened, and if wrongdoing took place, to respond to it. the pardon didn t work, and i think it would be even more calamitous right now for that to happen. yeah. and just before we let you go, in these last few seconds we have, the country has been through a lot in the last several years, that s the understatement of the year. how do you think it begins to heal? and what role does accountability for the former president play there, and what role might end a new presidential term for him to play if he were to win again? well rn, i think this process part of the healing, not part of the divisiveness. we re trying to respond to what happened. this is step one. if he s found to havere-elected
Against politicians, or do you think we re already past that? well rn, i think we have certainly seen an escalation, jim. and thank you for having me on. increasingly, members of congress are dipping into their own personal bank accounts to secure their families. i see that happening on both sides of the aisle. we have this horrific attack against paul pelosi, speaker pelosi s husband. and i expect this to continue as long as so many americans are misled by conspiracyism, and allegations that the other side is the enemy. that increasingly is what our political rhetoric is, that the other side is an enemy to the country, that we can t find common ground, and there are the worst allegations imaginable, caught in or wrapped in culture in our country, and all