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they are official, certified, and voted for joe biden. georgia republicans, they met at exactly the same time right behind those closed doors. they are not official, not certified, they still met, they chose donald trump, they say to keep his lawsuit alive. >> even as democratic party electors were meeting in the georgia state senate for the first time in 28 years to select a democratic president and vice president, one floor below, at the state capitol, georgia republicans were conven...

>> thanks to all of you at home for joining, us we have a lot to get to tonight. i want to start on december 14th 2020, a day we should not particularly remember. it was supposed to be a routine, day a boring day for state electors across the country as they officially cast their presidential votes. as we know very well, that was not the case in some states, including the state of georgia. >> democratic party electors, theyre in the senate chambers, they are official, they are, certifi...

And thanks to you at home for joining us this hour. so, special counsel jack smith has ten business days left if he wants to beat fulton county district attorney fani willis to an indictment. we have talked a little bit about that. dea willis has indicated that at some point between july 31st and august 15th she may bring charges against donald trump for his attempts to overturn the results of the 2020 election in georgia. and mr. smith, whose federal indictment could over lap significantly with...

Case is really a prosecutors greatest gift. because it allows the prosecutor to be able to tell the entire story of what happens. and its very useful when you have multiple defendants with multiple actions. so im not surprised that the d. a. is taking her time and getting all four witnesses and even including acts or things that may have happened in other states. the georgia rico statute allows her to do that in order to present the full story to the jury. >> wow, very interesting. dean, if you ...

Is the symbol of that. in terms of where this particular case may go, a rico case is really a prosecutors greatest gift. because it allows the prosecutor to be able to tell the entire story of what happens. and its very useful when you have multiple defendants with multiple actions. so im not surprised that the d.a. is taking her time and getting all four witnesses and even including acts or things that may have happened in other states. the georgia rico statute allows her to do that in order to...

Raffensperger was merely, i dont know, a prank call gone awry. look, jokes aside, stark aside, in just a matter of weeks fani willis could soon find or self in a position very few have been in before. going toe to toe with an ex president in a court of law. over criminal charges. according to reporters inside that miami courtroom throughout the entirety of tuesdays arraignment special counsel jack smith never once broke his stare at donald trump. and i think we can izium j.a. willis is as equall...

Case for started. with the perfect phone call between then president donald trump and georgias republican top election official secretary of state brad raffensperger. on january the 2nd 2021. >> so all i want to do is this, i just want to find 11,780 votes which is one more than we have. >> which is what more than we have. to be clear trump lost to biden by 11,779 votes. anyone at the top election official that state to find him in amount of votes thats one vote more. hes on tape saying, you jus...

Georgia signal the charges there could come as soon as august. however recently the timeline has come into question. new york attorney general letitia james is also investigating the former president, hard to keep up by now. she had this to say about the possible impact of trumps federal indictment on the state cases. >> in all likelihood i believe that my case as well as dea bragg and the georgia case will unfortunately have to be adjourned pending the outcome of the federal case. so depends up...

Knows dearly. former district attorney for the cobb county right next door to fulton county. shes also a co-owner of the brookings institute -- also with us dean overdub a host of the dean over the show on sirius xm. and molly john -- thank you all for coming on the show tonight when we start with you. do you still believe we should expect indictment in this case in august? and what do you make of those recent reports the d.a. willis has expanded her investigation of georgias racketeering laws. ...

Jean carroll in which the judge tells the jury, if i were you i wouldnt get your anonymity because this idea of violence, threats of violence, manus, angry over all of us because we know what donald trump has done and will do, particularly would wear he to be indicted by willis. >> again, this is so unusual. unusual not coming from a defendant. >> it is unusual for any defendant, right? >> especially defendant who has that much power to use his words to create an actual palpable risk and i think...