Anick Acerman News Today

In washington. Jim acosta has evening off. And we begin with Game Changing evidence in the Georgia Election interference of donald trump and his allies. Fulton county officials now have emails and Text Messages that directly connect members of trumps legal team to the breach of a Voting System in rural Coffee County. The new very many comes as fani willis prepared to present the case to a grand jury. She is expected to seek an indictment of more than a dozen people as early as tuesday. And that ...

To present the evidence. but tuesday and monday do shape up to be busy days here in fulton county. >> and we see those security barricades behind you and a lot of security there as they get closer to this. zack cohen in atlanta, thank you so much for that reporting. and we want to drill down on this and joining us no is anick acerman from the southern district of new york. we sure do appreciate you sharing your sunday evening with us. we want to begin with that new cnn reporting that zack was ...

Lawyers to cooperate with the investigation, become a witness. and i think the superseding indictment naming him as a defendant is a pretty good indication that hes not going that way at least not right now. >> the superseding indictment surprising a lot of people as were awaiting the potential indictment in january 6th. john miller, always great to see you. thank you. joining me now is former assistant special watergate prosecutor nick acerman. thank you so much for joining us. so these two n...

Special counsel. such an appointment underscores the departments commitment to both independence and accountability in particularly sensitive matters. >> all right, so you heard him pretty much reiterate what you were saying, and he said it first, to be fair. you know, he talked about this is a really, i dont know, sensitive time. but, nick, a special counsel is s semi-independent, correct? it is not completely independent. so in the end doesnt merrick garland have to make a decision one way or ...

Counsel particularly in georgia. the big question is will georgia beat the feds to the punch and wind up indicting donald trump before the feds do? and then what happens? the special counsels going to have to decide, well, do we let georgia go ahead and we step back and we do the mar-a-lago documents case, or do we file another case? i mean this gets a little more complicated as you start moving along. >> nick, jennifer, preet, thank you so much for joining us. theres a lot to unpack here. we co...

Broadcasting. >> you can break the camera. you want to break the camera? youre threatening us by smashing the camera. >> qatar even banning beer in stadiums, which came as a surprise to budweiser, the world cups official beer sponsor. and well have the latest on what could be a snowstorm like weve never seen before slamming buffalo, new york, tonight. weve got a lot to talk about. here with me cnns legal analyst jennifer rogers and former watergate prosecutor nick acerman. thank you so much for ...

That and also what weve been hearing about surveillance footage, people moving documents in and out of mar-a-lago. so getting all those witnesses, their testimony into the grand jury and nailing down that obstruction piece may not be fully completed yet. so i had originally thought a special counsel would delay things a good bit, but, you know, as you kind of think through it and see that jack smith is ready tao go, showing p and ready to get working, it doesnt delay things much at all. >> i kno...

Boxes. its also relating to the january 6th situation. i mean, if you had to pick one person that the government is going to focus on, bring charges against and turn into a government witness, its going to be mark meadows. i mean, he originally started to cooperate with the january 6th committee, gave them a bunch of e-mails. but then when donald trump started going at him on the internet and calling him all kinds of names and backing him into a corner, he just clammed up. but he is a weak indiv...

Obstruction charge. hes long said hes unaware of the content of the boxes that remained at mar-a-lago or if theres any unclassified material. tonight we are still waiting to hear from the archives, but we have heard from a spokesperson for mark meadows who say if mr. meadows did not personally review the boxes at mar-a-lago, did not have a role in examining or verifying what was or not contained in them. everyone pointing the other way saying i never knew what was in these even though they said ...

Was it a lot of people given that we know a number of people circulate through mar-a-lago on a daily basis. who exactly got their hands on this information? and the fact there was classified information right next to nonclassified, you know, the intel officials and former intel officials i talk to say thats just 101 no-no theyre not supposed to be put together at any point. >> nick, to the point barr made as well he called it jawboning. theres been a tremendous deference of the former president ...