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Staff, mark meadows, and his postelection attorney, Rudy Giuliani. They are accused of engaging in a conspiracy to commit crimes intended to reverse trumps loss in georgia in 2020. The 98page indictment lists 13 State Charges against trump himself including racketeering as well as false statements. Prosecutors claim trump and his codefendants, quote, refused to accept that trump lost and knowingly and willfully joined a conspiracy to unlawfully change the outcome of the election. District attorney fani willis wants the trial to start within six months. And unlike in Federal Court that trial could be televised. Lets begin at the courthouse in atlanta with cnns sara murray. And sara, this is a much more sprawling case both in terms of the number of defendants but also the nature and scope of the charges than what we saw in the Special Counsels case. Help lay it out for us. Reporter yeah, i think thats absolutely right. In these other federal cases we have seen donald trump largely charged alone or hes charged alongside codefendants in the maralago case who are lowerlevel folks working along with him. What the Fulton County District Attorneys lays out in this sweeping indictment is essentially this whole parade of individuals from people who were in Donald Trumps inner circle, people like Rudy Giuliani, his former attorney, like his former white house Chief Of Staff mark meadows, down to people locally here in georgia, and alleges that these people were all working together with the aim of trying to keep donald trump in power illegally. And as you pointed out, donald trump faces 13 charges in this case, but all 19 defendants face this very serious Racketeering Charge in this case. I think what we saw throughout the scope and the length of this indictment was a District Attorneys Office that wanted to be very clear that they were offering a detailed accounting of why they felt this was a compelling racketeering case. We see act after act after act listed in this indictment as in furtherance of the conspiracy, some of which happened in georgia and some of which did not because they wanted to show that this is a wide net that trump and his allies cast in their efforts to try to overturn the Election Results and keep trump in power, jim. And using rico statutes, which are something that have often been used and by the way by Rudy Giuliani himself to target Organized Crime. The defendants have until august 25th, next friday, to surrender to turn themselves in. We should add the caveat that doesnt mean theyre going to stay. Theyll turn themselves in for that day and likely leave, perhaps under bond. Can you explain what that will entail exactly, and has anyone shown up yet . Reporter well, were not aware of anyone whos turned themselves in yet. But this is something that is sort of a multistep process. The attorneys can be in touch with the Prosecutors Office before they actually show up and surrender if they want to try to negotiate terms ahead of time, terms of release, terms of bond if that is applicable. And then normally for defendants in this jurisdiction they would show up at the Fulton County jail and they would be processed there, which would include of course getting their fingerprints taken, getting a mugshot taken, and then at some point after that we do expect these defendants will be appearing in court. That will be their initial appearance, their arraignment. That doesnt necessarily happen the same time that they surrender, the way that weve seen in these federal cases. A president ial mug shot. Sara murray outside the court there in Fulton County, thanks so much. Jessica. The d. A. In the georgia case wants a trial within six months. Special counsel jack smith wants the federal election trial to start january. And further highlighting the competing Court Dockets at play here, today a different trump codefendant was arraigned in a different case. Thats the classified documents indictment in florida. Cnn senior crime and justice correspondent Katelyn Polantz is here. Katelyn, great to see you. You have all of these parallel timelines now all starting to come together and coalesce. How does it get sorted out . What takes precedence . Well, first of all, they cant all happen at the same time. Trumps a criminal defendant. Very likely he would be expected to sit there in person in the court where hes being tried in front of a jury. So they are going to have to work things out. But what happens with a precedent is that whenever there is a situation like this its up to the judges. What the judges say, that goes. And so right now the judges are putting some things on the calendar. You have march as the manhattan d. A. s case. You have may as the case set in the maralago federal documents trial. You have potentially an early trial set in this federal case depending what judge chutkan wants to do. And so the judges will set time on the calendar. And once its entered its entered and its going to be up to the parties to either tell them we have a problem, we need to move things, or the judges could ask. And so we might start seeing some of these things being worked out as soon as this month when judge chutkan, the judge over this federal case this year, she is having a hearing in the end of this month to basically try and set a trial date. The Justice Department wants it to be in december, january, but well see. And let us all remember that this is all happening concurrent with a 2024 president ial election and a primary calendar thats going to play out through all of these court dates as well. So lets skip ahead a few jumps here, and i acknowledge that in this question. But if trump were and win and he were to become president again, the federal cases i guess could go away. He could find a way around them. But its different with the state case in georgia. Yeahi dont it boggles the mind to think about the number of things that could happen between now and a Trump Presidency with these cases, a lot of things could happen in court in a very short amount of time. But assuming that trump were to become president , say, and were to get rid of the federal case or tell the Justice Department he wants to dismiss them or pardon himself if hes already convicted, then you have the state case in georgia. Say, they were going to go to trial, maybe they dont have the trial by then or maybe they are trying to do things once hes in the presidency. Actually, there has been situations in the past where there are lawsuits and other things that arise during a presidency and a president has a lot of ability to argue im the president , thats a very demanding job, thats an important job and you cant take time out to deal with some other things. So its very likely this is another thing that could be tested in court. But its a big question of how does this all work out . We just dont know. So many tests on the Justice System right now. Katelyn polantz, thanks so much for that reporting. Excellent as always. Jim . Jessica, thanks so much. Lets take a closer look now at the Staggering Number of charges former President Trump is now facing across four criminal cases. The total is 91. How does that break down . 34 in the New York State Hush Money Case. This relates to hush money paid to the adult film star stormy daniels. 40 in the classified documents case. Four in the Special Counsel Election Subversion Case. And now 13 in the georgia case. So you can understand it all we brought in cnn legal analyst former federal prosecutor Elliot Williams to help us find some patterns in here and understand all these things. Lets begin if we can on the Hush Money Case because that number, 34, its a big number. But we should note each of those or at least many of those charges relate to a false document. The numbers a little bit inflated. Its one of those things where every time you sign a faulty document you could be charged with it. But important thing to note here is even if convicted the former president is not likely to face any prison time here. He doesnt have a criminal history. Nonviolent offender. Probably not going to jail. May get probation in this one. Thats the new york case which was the first one to be charged. Lets go to the Class Fooild Documents Case regarding the mishandling of classified information, all those pictures you saw of documents held in bathrooms and Conference Rooms and so on there. 40 charges. Tell us the seriousness of these. Yeah, the most serious single charge in the case carries a 20year maximum sentence, jim. Now, look, you can sometimes read these things where they say President Trump face z 300 years in prison. Thats not happening because that would require stacking every single thing hes charged maximum for each charge. Thats just a reflection of the fact that obstruction of justice does carry a 20year sentence. Nobody gets that sentence. The federal Sentencing Guidelines would probably mean hed get something far less than that. But the guidelines do at least for normal people involve some jail time. Its years, not months in all likelihood for a 20year max sentence. Okay. Number three in order here, this is the Election Subversion Case by the Special Counsel. These are federal charges, to be distinguished from the State Charges we just saw from fani willis in georgia. Four here. Tell us the seriousness and how they stack up. And its really important to note the difference, jim, as you said, between federal and State Charges. The state of georgia and the state of new york are prosecuting the former president , but the federal government is prosecuting him for maralago and the 2020 subversion. So this is obstruction of an official proceeding, Conspiracy To Defraud the United States, which again one of those carries that 20year maximum sentence. It could be a lot of time. And just as you note there, Conspiracy To Defraud. The Special Counsel in his version of going after the president for his attempts to overturn the election focused on that legal line of attack. When we come to georgia, you have 13 charges against the former president. Took a different legal tack here involving rico. Explain to folks at home what that means and how she plans to make that sure. When you think of rico you think 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 fiveyear mandatory minimum sentence. Judges in georgia have a little latitude to go below that. Understood. If you can briefly before i get to pardon, which is an important distinction here, if you were to look at all these charges as a lawyer and a former prosecutor yourself, all these cases, which is the most serious, the most threatening . Anything with a 20year maximum sentence as the two federal ones do is a big deal. Mandatory mimsndatory minimums. He might be facing mandatory minimums in georgia. Also in a state case the president Cannot Pardon nor can the governor in georgia pardon someone if convicted. Pardon me. So under the federal system the president of the United States can pardon people of federal crimes. That means wipe them off their records altogether. Or expunge their sentence in some way. In the states the abc loougs would have to come from the state. Either the government as in the case of new york or state pardon board which would be the case in georgia. Needless to say no matter whos president no, matter who it is democrat, republican, they cant touch either of those two, New York State Hush Money Case or georgia meddling. Listen, the various scenarios going into 2024 are remarkable. Were going to be covering them. Elliot williams, thanks for helping break it down. Jessica, back to you. Just ahead, trumps legal battles are adding up and the Campaign Calendar is filling up. 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Now, donald trump in an early truth social post this morning wrote, so the witch hunt continues. 19 people indicated tonight. I think he meant indicted. Including the former president of the United States, me, by an Out Of Control and very corrupt District Attorney. The post went on to read why didnt they indict 2. 5 years ago . Because they wanted to do it right in the middle of my political campaign. Jessica, its unclear how the judge will ultimately in this case rule on some of his social media activities. We know that in 2020 in the federal case regarding the 2020 election and Donald Trumps attempts to overturn the results there that the judge has posted some restrictions on his Social Media Activity. But im told from my conversations with Donald Trumps advisers that he has no plans to cease posting, he views truth social and social media as his most direct way of communicating with voters and particularly his base and that he thinks its the best way to defend himself. The problems that were seeing arise in the federal case, the Special Counsels case with his Social Media Activity could also potentially be a problem in this case as well. It doesnt sound like