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Often phone calls, meetings, tweets. she just calls them all criminal saying they all were knowingly false. with that broad brush she is able to indict everyone and bring in 19 people into that courtroom. thats the benefit of using a racketeering approach. but it also increases the danger for the country in terms of how we will handle contested elections in the future. >> bill: professor, thank you. we have exactly 83 more questions for you. were out of time today. appreciate yours, thank you fo...

Inherently natural to belove them. as long as kevin mccarthy and others and candidates for president -- ron desantis, literally fired almost everybody in his campaign. if he wants to turn the tide on where this thing is headed, tell donald trump that hes wrong. he lied. and he needs to get out of the race. lets watch the deflection in the numbers at that point. >> so, because -- as long as this proceeds as a state case and doesnt move to be federal, which i dont think theyre going to have succes...

Of the movie "goodfellas" and organized crime and mobsters. certainly rico can be used to prosecute folks like that. but what it is targeted after is criminal enterprises. when people act as a group and carry out criminal acts sort of in succession. and here thats the allegation, that that happened in the state of georgia. now, it can carry a five-year mandatory minimum sentence. judges in georgia have a little latitude to go below that. >> understood. if you can briefly before i get to pardon, ...

Hes now facing a total of 91 charges. as well as the 13 weve been talking about in georgia, he faces four over election interference stemming from his actions around the january 6th capitol riots. the most criminal charges mr trump is facing is a0 — they come from the classified documents cases. youll remember thousands of documents were seized from his florida estate last year, including about a hundred marked as classified. the fourth case is known as the new york hush money case — where t...

To surrender, have to surrender to court in just over a week, before next friday, when they will have the georgia charges formally rented them. she also wants this case heard within six months. that would interest only fall right in the middle of the presidential election campaign. zone trump has made a clue that every time these charges are laid against him, he says that his support actually grows, but they are very serious charges, charges of racketeering, election meddling. we heard that infa...

She was going for a more tailored charge would not be able to bring up as evidence in the case. >> over the weekend, mr. trump posted on social media how can they charge me in georgia? the phone call was perfect. witch hunt. and gillian, because this is a state case, none of the potential targets would benefit from a presidential pardon and in the state of georgia, strict guidelines regulate pardons, they are handled by a state board can only grant a pardon after you have served your time. back ...

>> paula, donald trump weve also noticed is saying a lot on truth social, including director a message at a witness. what can you tell us about that? >> reporter: exactly. that message was directed at the former republican lieutenant governor geoff duncan, suggesting that he shouldnt testify as a witness in this case. now, this is not the first time that former president trump has attacked this investigation, attacked the da, fani willis. he has called her, for example, a racist and a marxist. h...

And, bret, because this is a state case, a presidential pardon would do no good for the potential targets of this investigation. and georgia also has strict laws concerning pardons. they are actually handled by a state panel that can only take action after youve served all your time and paid all your fines. bret? >> bret: jonathan, i mentioned at the beginning but earlier today reuters had this post and they reported that fulton county temporarily published a list of charges against the former p...

Any outcome of a state case. today, in a seeming attempt to get his retaliation in first, trump took to his own social media platform to lambast the fulton county da fani willis, accusing her of trying to interfere with his re—election campaign and seeking to indict him on what he called "ridiculous grounds." davids here. david, what is the latest on this possible indictment? for donald trump, legal troubles, not as single spies, but in battalions, and boy, has he got some battalions, and boy,...

A screenshot was taken by a reporter. and it shows 13 different charges which will apparently be filed and the first is particularly interesting, violation of the georgia rico racketeer influenced and corrupt organizations act. that is a piece of catchall legislation designed to catch drug kingpins or mafia bosses. designed to tie in the actions of people lower down the food chain if you like with the top boss at the top and that is a particularly interesting charge. and particularly interesting...