13 Felony Charges for trying to overturn his 2020 Election Loss in the state. Its worth noting he is not alone this time. 18 codefendants also charged in this indictment. Including Rudy Giuliani and mark meadows. Theyre all facing Rico Racketeering charges which are traditionally used to prosecute ma mafia bosses and gang leaders. Fani willis ordered them to turn themselves in by next friday. Overnight trump slammed the indictment and said it was politically inspired to disrupt his president ial run. This is trumps fourth criminal indictment. He is now facing a total of 91, 91 charges in georgia, florida, new york, and washington, d. C. We have a lot to get to. Cnn this morning special live coverage starts right now. Good morning, everyone. Live, Fulton County courthouse where a grand jury has indicted donald trump and 18 codefendants for their alleged scheme to overturn the 2020 Election Loss in georgia. A look at the newspaper headlines across the nation this morning. The Atlanta Journal constitutions front page, photo of trump surrounded by all his 18 alleged coconspirators. We have Team Coverage this morning on Nick Valencia joins us live outside of that courthouse in Fulton County courthouse. Elie honig standing by to break down all the new charge. We have our political experts with us to weigh in. Lets begin with nick at the courthouse. Nick, good morning to you. So now trump has until next friday a week from this friday to surrender, right . Reporter thats right. And he called this a politicallymotivated investigation. He tried to get his supporters here in the streets. We didnt see any yesterday. Security was taken very seriously in part because of that explosive rhetoric. At the end of the day, though, fani willis got what she wanted. Trump has been indicted yet again. A Fulton County grand jury returned a true bill of indictment. Reporter the 98page indictment lists 41 Felony Counts against former President Trump and 18 codefendants to overturn georgias 2020 president ial Election Results. Accusing them of, quote, unlawfulfully conspired and endeavor to conduct and participate in a Criminal Enterprise. Trump charged with 13 counts in the indictment. Every individual charged in the indictment is charged with one count of violating georgias racketeer influenced and corrupt organizations act through participation in a Criminal Enterprise in Fulton County, georgia, and elsewhere to accomplish the illegal goal of allowing donald j. Trump to seize the president ial term of Office Beginning on january 20th, 21. Reporter the indictment also included an additional 30 unindicted coconspirators in addition to the charged defendant. In a statement, trumps attorneys calling the grand jury presentation, quote, one sided and the events of monday, quote, shocking and absurd. Ohio representative Jim Jordan A TrumpAlly Tweeting out he did nothing wrong and House SpeakerKevin Mccarthy saying justice should be blind, but biden has weaponized government against his leading political opponent to interfere in the 2024 election. But it was a very intense meeting. Reporter geoff duncan, Former GeorgiaLieutenant Governor on his testimony before an atlanta grand jury. I can tell you that there was the highest level of attention in that room from folks with the District Attorneys Office through the jurors. It was just an extremely intense period of time. And everybody was prepared. Reporter the indictments stem from a 2. 5 year Criminal Investigation into trumps alleged interference in the 2020 georgia president ial election. Including his call to georgia Secretary Of StateBrad Raffensperger. I just want to find 11,780 votes, which is one more than we have. Because we won the state. Reporter to the fake electors to convened to cast illegitimate votes for trump. The investigation also accuses multiple defendants of harassment of Election Workers and a voting systems breach in rural coffee county. I want to try him and be respectful for our sovereign states. Reporter and while Fulton CountyDistrict Attorney fani willis says she intends to try the 19 defendants together, its up to the judge on when the trial will proceed. We do want to move this case along and so, we will be asking for a proposed order that occurs, trial date within the next six months. Reporter the former president is facing a flurry of legal filings and legal issues. For some its hard to keep up. But this is more than just about his socalled perfect phone call with georgia Secretary Of State. This according to fani willis is about an orchestrated and organized effort to Pressure Georgia lawmakers in Fulton CountyElection Workers to overturn legitimate results. Phil and poppy, trump and his codefendants have until august 25th to turn themselves in. Nick valencia live outside the Fulton County courthouse. Thank you. Poppy. Lets go through all of this with elie honig. Good morning. Great to have you. Walk us through first who got charged. Poppy, the fourth indictment has now landed. Just to orient people because theres so many of these. Lets take a moment. We have seen the New York State charge relating to hush money that indictment came back in april. The two jack smith federal cases in d. C. And maralago, florida, those have already been indicted. Now we have the indictment in Georgia State court for the attempt to interfere with the Georgia Results of the 2020 election. So, this indictment is a big one. There are 19 different people charged here in 41 counts. Again, were under Georgia State law here. So lets look at who these 19 defendants are. Donald trump, of course, the First Defendant listed. He is front and center. Everything in this case, not surprisingly, revolves around him. This one is a surprise. Mark meadows. Hes not in the federal indictment. Not in the federal indictment. Where is he in the federal indictment . He is charged in the georgia indictment a bit of history, too. Second time we have ever seen a white house Chief Of Staff criminally charged. The first, of course, was mr. Haldiman back in the watergate indictment. Eight lawyers, poppy, are charged with crimes in this indictment. Notable Rudy Giuliani. Hes been subpoenaed. Hes been in the news a lot. Hes been sued. Hes been investigated and now criminally indicted. A former federal prosecutor. These five lawyers are all listed as coconspirators in jack myths federal investigation, not charged but listed as coconspirator. The lawyers are the engines here. According to the indictment, so 34 of these schemes ran through, created by, executed by these eight lawyers. So what does that mean for defense of counsel, advice of counsel defense then . Yeah. Complicates things. If donald trump wants to say i relied on what these folks told me to do, well, the allegation is they were in on the crime with him. If prosecutors can prove that, that will overcome the advice of counsel defense. Then we have the other people who were indictmented. Worth noting, three people who signed fake elector certificates out of 16 total. She is being selected who she is charging and charged a former Trump Campaign official, couple people involved in intimidation of some of the poll workers and trying to get them to shape their testimony. And then finally two people who were involved in that breach of the Election System that we just learned about we broke the news here on cnn a couple days ago. You add it all up, 19 defendants in this one indictment. What are the other opponents of this story struck you reading through it . Lead charge, count one, all 19 defendants are charged with racketeering under Georgia State law. This is so important because its such a powerful tool for prosecutors. This group is identified in the indictment as a, quote, Criminal Enterprise with donald trump at the head of it. And the indictment lays out 161 acts, conduct, that this enterprise engaged in. Not all of them are crimes standing alone, but theyre all part of the illegal conspiracy. Big thing we have to know, fiveyear mandatory minimum. Anyone who gets in prison . In prison. No probation, judge cant do anything about it. Anyone who gets convicted of this will go away for five years. That is georgia law. Unless theyre successful and appeal. Unless they went on appeal. Exactly. Now the indictment has other counts of forgery, false statements, obstruction. They break down into a few different chapters. First, false statements to the state legislature. We remember Rudy Giuliani lied to the Georgia State assembly well be joined by one of the georgia lawmakers who was there when he did this. This is right in the indictment. You will have plenty of important questions to ask. Solicitation of state officials. The most famous example, of course, the infamous phone call to Brad Raffensperger, need you to find 11,780 votes. 3 of the 16 folks have been charged as indictment. The lawyers were instrumental in putting this together. Harassment and intimidation of Election Workers and then lying about them in official documents and to the assembly. We remember ms. Moss and ms. Freeman. Solicitation of the United States justice department. Jeffly clark, the lawyer we saw before and remember donald trump tried to get highranking officials, one official took a note that trump said just say the election was corrupt. Leave the rest to me and the republican congressman. Solicitation of mike pence. Breach of those Voting Machines which we talked about the other day and finally, obstruction of justice. And obstruction of governmental proceeding. There is your indictment. Wow. 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A. Fani willis saying, quote, its a continuation of the greatest and longrunning witch hunt in american history. Joinings now is Alayna Treene from washington. We have been talking about your reporting this morning and whats going on behind the scenes there. We know the play book, to some degree, is anything different with indictment number four . Reporter its not phil and poppy. They have done this now three times before. They think that play book is working. And so theyre going to continue to use it, his advisers tell me. Theyll label as a political persecution and argue that the District Attorney is going after him as an effort to interfere in the 2024 president ial election. Donald trump himself has been arguing that they are attacking him because he is doing so well in the polls. As we have seen with the previous indictments, donald trump personally is trying to speak about this. He gave that interview with fox news and railed against these charges. He said, quote, this politically inspired indictment which could have been brought close to three years was tailored for placement right smack the middle of my Political Campaign where i am leading all republicans by a lot and beating joe biden soundly in almost all polls. Now, phil and poppy, im also told that Donald Trumps team was prepared for this indictment. As they have done with the previous charges that hes faced throughout the past several months, they had been preparing his surrogates and allies, readying his defenders with prewritten statements and talking points so that they were immediately ready to respond to these charges. And we did see his allies do just that last night. House speaker Kevin Mccarthy called the charges a desperate sham. Jim jordan argued that donald trump did nothing wrong. This is the kind of rhetoric they want and they want his allies to continue rallying around him and defending him at this time. Do you think this indictment actually coming down in the way that it did changes what happens next week in terms of what trump does . Does he go to the debate on wednesday night by friday he has to turn himself in. Right. No, its a great question. I mean, from all indications that i have gotten from Donald Trumps team, i do think hell be making a statement about the debate. I dont really see this changing his decisionmaking process, at least from my conversations i had with his advisers yesterday and last night. It doesnt seem likely that hes really interested in debating at this point. That could change, of course. But again, we do know that they see the political advantages of these charges, at least in the short term. Theyre going to fund raise off of this and continue talking about this, but at the same time, we do know that donald trump does not want to be indicted. He is very frustrated by the mounting legal troubles he faces. And so i think youre going to continue to see that as well play out a little bit behind the scenes, poppy and phil. Alayna treene, thank you. A lot of numbers to keep track of this morning. Former President Trump is now facing his fourth criminal case in four different jurisdictions. When you tally all the charges up, 91 of them against the former president. And in georgia, specifically, he is facing 13 counts. The indictment alleges trump and 18 other defendants, quote,