Pick up dad from airport? ohhhhhh. only pay for what you need. liberty. liberty. liberty. liberty. so it s august 1st, which means that we can officially expect charging decisions from fulton county district attorney fani willis within the month, which based on how things looked today, could land the ex-president his third or even his fourth indictment this year. meanwhile, the d.a. s grand jury s march on in georgia with the first known subpoenas of those 16 false electors. a journalist says he received two subpoenas yesterday, requiring his testimony between august 7th and august 31st. he writes this
mary, could i interrupt you is? we are following this in real time. some updates now. ken dilanian has some information. we understand that donald trump, former president of the united states, has been indicted on four counts in relation to the attempt to overturn our election. ken. reporter: that s right. donald trump, the 45th president of the united states, has been indicted by a grand jury in washington, d.c., on four criminal counts. i haven t been able to read it yet. i saw the cover sheet and it includes obstruction of an official proceeding and conspiracy to defraud the united states. more as we get it, we will dig into it. but donald trump has been indicted tonight by a grand jury in washington, d.c., in this long-running investigation about efforts to attempt to overturn the results of the 2020 election. so, drew wiseman, two and a half years after that day, january 20th, we now have an indictment against the president. these charges as we learn more
Focus big picture. they have got to not include too many schemes and make sure that they can present it in a way that is understandable to a jury. but they scant oversimplify it. this is an attack on our democracy. so the charges have to be commensurate with the harm. it s a balancing act for jack smith here. i will be curious to see what he charges and also the details that are included in what i expect will be a speaking indictment to help explain to the public and to jurors how this whole scheme went down. dafrd jolly, we have been talking about the seismic shift that this means for our country and for our politics certainly and our institutions, our rule of law. it s hard to understate what this moment means. but there is a different reality for a large part of this country who will not see or will not feel that this indictment is anything but, as donald trump framed in the past, a political witch hunt. well, that s exactly right.
Florida case. why does that matter? elaborate why the judge and when we would learn that throughout this process. as soon as this indictment is unsealed and that could happen at any moment, in fact, it s possible that the government will not ask to seal the indictment at all. they could say, you know, there is no risk of flight, there is no danger to the community, there is no reason to seal. when we were con special counsel mueller s team we thought there were times not to seal it. as soon as it s on the docket, you would see it. or if the government announced it. when the defendant gets it, the defendant could publicize it. here i think there is a school of thought that the former president does that because he thinks he could make political hay out of this, something that a georgia judge just referenced yesterday about his sort of rapunzel i think i may have the fairy tale wrong.