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Of the messenger. thank you very much forjoining us. some viewers know that mr trump faces all kinds of different cases and legaljeopardy is so could you remind us what the charges were that we were expecting today? right remind us what the charges were that we were expecting today?— we were expecting today? right now, former president _ we were expecting today? right now, former president trump _ we were expecting today? right now, former president trump is _ we were expecting today? right no...

Basically intended to deter the ku klux klan from interfering with the rights of free men and women after the civil war. those were some of the civil war. those were some of the statutes we were looking at, whether any of those will be charged will be a matter for the grand jury and it could be other statutes on prosecutors reader as well and we are waiting to see if one returns. he said he sent his lawyers to talk to the prosecutors today. do you think that might have had any effect? is that we...

Draw what it felt was an undeniable conclusion. the ex-president of the united states of america had conspired against the united states of america, the country he once led and incited a deadly insurrection in his attempts to stay in power did not work. the committee sent criminal referrals, four of them to the department of justice more than seven months ago. today comes a significant marker in that criminal indictment against the ex-president is very near. trumps lawyers todd blanche and john ...

I wish to charge trump. and they are, solicitation to commit election fraud, conspiracy to commit election fraud, solicitation to destroy ballots, solicitation of a public officer to fail to perform duties. now, an example of soliciting a public officer to fail to perform duties could be president trump calling the georgia secretary of state, brad raffensperger, and ask mr. raffensperger to find 11,780 votes so that trump could win the state. experts also think the former president have legal ex...

The republicans are going to have to bring -- from the christopher wray fbi. >> the doj is going to indict tromp on the january 6 situation. does that help your campaign? >> at the end of the day, if somebody commits a crime, like you rob a bank. when they are doing and this is they are taking some of the statutes, violation of rights, conspiracy of rights, they are stretching it to fit this conduct. that is not good prosecution. when you have a politically charged situation, that makes it more ...

Votes so that trump could win the state. experts also think the former president have legal exposure under the conspiracy statutes, for the steps his campaign took to replace legitimate electors with 16 fake trump electors. so with me is andrew weissmann, former justice department prosecutor, joining me now is michael moore, former us attorney for the middle district of the state of georgia. michael let me start with you, the word solicitation and the word conspiracy sound alarming. what do you ...

The statutes, so you can conspire with someone to commit crimes, solicit someone to commit a crime, and it can land you unfortunately before a jury in fulton county beef if you do any of that. >> one of the reports that was out last week is that he can also be charged with racketeering, which again, sounds a bit like something the mob does. but i had this question about whether or those charges listed today could be under racketeering, or is there an expectation that it would be separate charges...

Restoration act, whether he violated that and all the communication with foreign governments and all of that, that that now -- you cant exonerate yourself from anything that could come up on that matter? or where does it go? >> thats right. it seems like what the judge was saying is she had serious concerns that the deal that the justice department was offering would basically immunize hunter biden from my future prosecutions under fara or any statutes that might concern the conduct -- his busin...

Conspiracy, and again, we should say we have reporting about whats in his target letter, even if we had definitive knowledge of what was in the target letter, theres no guarantee that whats in the target letter is indicative that charges will be brought or that the charges that will be brought are those that are related to the statutes mentioned in the target letter. i have to give you all the caveats, but with all of those caveats, if trump is charged with conspiracy, theres no guarantee that h...

At least in arizona and in georgia. maybe in other places as well. its a good reminder that in all of these investigations that we are following around particularly the efforts to overthrow the results of the 2020 election, its not just former president donald trump whos in the cross hair. for example, in special counsel jack smiths classified documents case, charges have of course already been brought against trump, and also his staffer, walt nauta. but we also have reporting that another trump...