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Us tonight. Cnn primetime abby Philip Joe Starts right. Now thank you, caitlin, good evening, every everyone. Im abby philip, welcome to cnn prime time. The clock is now ticking, donald trump in 18 codefendants have just ten days to turn themselves in, after being indicted in Georgia On Serious Criminal Charges. The former president is accused of being the head of a criminal enterprise, to overturn joe bidens victory in that state. Tonight, a local sheriff says hes expected to be out of Fulton C...

After being indicted in Georgia On Serious Criminal Charges. The former president is accused now of being the head of a criminal enterprise to overturn joe bidens victory in that state. And tonight, a local sheriff says that he is expected to be out of Fulton County jail. So, what is going on right now in trumps world, with just ten days to go until surrender . We also have news on mark meadows, making a lastditch attempt to get the case against him in georgia dismissed. We will dig into all of ...

That trump is expected to surrender on thursday or friday. He and 18 codefendants are charged with plotting to subvert the 2020 Election Results in georgia. Local officials have said they will treat the former president like any other defendant. Sources tell cnn that trumps team has been in contact with the District Attorneys Office about the conditions and logistics for his surrender. Cnns ryan young has our report. Reporter we continue to try and get a sense of whats next as we continue to wat...

Georgia, he met Misty Hampton, and somehow got her number and went back to the white house with it. And that was someone that they were on the phone with very quickly after that, obviously trying to get access to the Voting Software and Coffee County. When meadows went on to georgia, the Misty Hampton Coffee County story is interesting, just to remind folks of that story. Which cnn broke yesterday. And caitlin, you will jump in if i get any of this wrong. But it seems as though Coffee County Ele...

Went and had a meeting. so it has the risk of backfiring against the state, because if they made it so complicated and so many different overt acts, i think 160 have been thrown into the indictment, which to me seems unnecessary. they should have simplified it if they didnt want to risk the 12 jurors listening to all this evidence trying to decide who knew what when, who agreed to what, what does this overt act mean, is it racketeering, is it not. it can get very confusing. >> do you see this ca...

Were trying to overturn the state election. theyre going to have to prove theres a pattern of racketeering. it cant be unrelated crimes. it cant be a tax evasion and like -- >> the goal has to be the same. >> -- and smuggling or something. it has to be a pattern thats for a common goal. since theyve charged a conspiracy, it makes it easier for the state to prove it, because all you have to show is that these people were agreed to this crime and they knew that somebody would commit two or more. t...

Was the first person to do, it and not trumps attorneys. tim, just broadly speaking, the charges hes facing here in georgia, putting aside the issue of which venue it is tried and, if youre his attorney, which are not anymore for a number of reasons, what would you say to mount this defense of this former president? >> this case, more than so that are some of the others, i think when i read through the indictment, i saw a lot of potential legal attacks. before you get to the merits. the use of t...

Large categories. false statements made to the state legislature, we know for example that rudy giuliani went and lied to the georgia state senate. well statement made to state officials, for example, donald trump sent a letter to brad raffensperger at one point saying, basically, there has been massive fraud and you need to do something about it. the fake electors scheme is number three. number four, really interesting to me, harassment of election workers. miss freeman and miss, moss they are ...

Criminal acts, racketeering acts, designed to further the criminal objective of the enterprise. and you dont have to -- if youre charge of that, you dont have to be the one whos actually executing the plan. you just have to unknowingly involve yourself in an enterprise that is trying to execute the plan. and it is designed for mob bosses for a reason, because they kept themselves insulated from the actual criminal behavior on the streets and this is exactly the type of statute that has been appl...

Democracy. so there a couple of different things if i were to adjust this, i would be looking at it. i would be looking at a wide range conspiracy to defraud the united states. id also be looking at a potential racketeering indictment, as a former organized crime prosecutor, the rico statute is really designed for someone in this case, like someone like donald trump, who is orchestrating a wide ranging enterprise engaged in multiple criminal acts, racketeering acts, designed to further the crimi...