We are expecting to hear from President Joe Biden in just a few moments in milwaukee, but first Donald Trumps fourth indictment arrived last night and its the case many in his orbit have been the most worried about. In no small part because several members of his team are also charged. The former president now ensnared in whats known as a rico case in georgia alongside some of his closest advisers like mark meadows and Rudy Giuliani over efforts to overturn joe bidens 2020 win in georgia. The 98page indictment includes conspiracy and racketeering charges. Trump and the 18 other defendants have ten days to surrender to georgia authorities. And the d. A. Wants the trial to start within six months and she wants to try all 19 of them in one go. Cnns sara murray is outside the courthouse in atlanta. Sara, this is a rico case. This is something thats usually against the mob, against gangs. Tell us more. Reporter Fulton CountyDistrict Attorney fani willis has made very clear she likes this rico statute because she thinks it allows her to tell a more complete story when she brings her case. And i think we saw that again in this 98page indictment that brings charges against not only donald trump but also 18 other codefendants. And shes used this statute in unorthodox ways in the past. She brought a case against Atlanta Public School teachers and other educators. Again, not what you would normally consider the rico statute for. As you said, its often used to prosecute gang members. But again, in this case she used it to lay out a sort of narrative about not just the efforts by donald trump to try to overturn the 2020 election in georgia but efforts by many of his allies in what she describes as this criminal conspiracy, People IncludingRudy Giuliani, including mark meadows and including a number of local officials here in georgia like david shafer, the chairman of the Republican Party here. So thats how shes presenting this case going ahead. And again, theres going to be a number of Court Challenges to this. When you have 19 defendants, that also means you have a lot of legal teams looking to punch holes in the case. The District Attorney is trying to make. So were going to see how that plays out, jessica. And sara, what happens, do we know yet, when trump ultimately turns himself in down in georgia. How might that play out . Yeah. Its going to be probably different for donald trump than it is for other defendants because he is the former president of the united states. Weve heard from the local sheriff here previously who says he wants to keep this process as similar as it is for other defendants where you would get a mugshot or you would get fingerprinted. Normally defendants here turn themselves in to the Fulton County jail. But again, now that were in this position where donald trump has officially been indicted the Sheriffs Office is going to have to start negotiating with Secret Service as well as with trumps attorneys about the logistics of how this is going to play out. So it could look different for trump than it does for typical defendants. And when donald trump has been charged federally, normally we see him walk into the courthouse. He gets processed there and he immediately shows up in court. Here it could still take a little while for him to make that initial Court Appearance. All right. Sara murray for us in atlanta. Thanks so much for that update. Jim . As we mentioned, the Sweeping Georgia indictment against former President Donald Trump names 18 other defendants and includes some highprofile names who until now have evaded criminal liability. Lets begin with one of them, the president s former personal attorney, former New York City mayor as well. Also mark meadows, who was of course trumps former chief of staff. We should note giuliani made his name stand by there. Were going to go to the president , President Biden now, whos commenting on the disaster in maui. Have a listen. Devastating wildfires, some of which are still burning in hawaii. Theyve claimed the lives of 99 people so far, and they havent cleaned things up yet. The deadliest wildfire in more than 100 years. A whole city destroyed. Generations of native hawaiian history turned into ruin. Ive spoken to governor josh green multiple times and reassured him the state will have everything it needs from the federal government. I immediately approved the governors request for a major disaster declaration. Thats a fancy way of saying whatever you need youre going to get. And thatll get aid into the hands of people who desperately need it, who have lost their loved ones, who have lost their homes, their livelihoods, who have been damaged and destroyed. And think about this. All that area theyve got to plow up they cant do it now because they dont know how many bodies are there. They dont flow whats left. Imagine being a mom or dad wondering where your child is. Imagine being a husband or wife, a mother, father. Its really tough stuff. Almost 500 federal personnel have been deployed to maui to help communities and survivors get back on their feet. Fema, Search And Rescue teams are sifting through the ashes in that fivemile area that youve seen on television thats been burned. Its painstaking work. It takes time. Its nerveracking. Most of the debris cant be removed until its done. My wife jill and i are going to travel to hawaii as soon as we can. Thats what ive been talking to the governor about. I dont want to get in the way. Ive been to too many disaster areas. But i want to go and make sure they get everything they need. I want to be sure we dont disrupt the ongoing recovery efforts. Fema administrator griswold, whos the best weve ever had i think, was on the ground this weekend. I just talked to her. Shes back in the states. I have directed her to streamline the process as quickly as possible to help register survivors for meeting federal assistance without delay. To tate fema has approved 50,000 meals, 76,000 liters of water, 500 beds, 10,000 blankets as well as other Shelter Supplies for survivors displaced from their homes. Fema also authorized onetime payments of 700 per household to folks that have been displaced so they can do the immediate things of just taking care of medications and prescriptions that they so badly need. Were working with the state to make sure survivors who have lost their homes have a place to call home until we can rebuild. Were also surging federal personnel to the state to help the brave firefighters and First Responders, many of whom lost their own homes, their properties while theyre out busting their neck to save other people. How many have been so impacted themselves that theyre still working around the clock to put the fires out, evacuate survivors to safety and find the missing. Ive ordered all available federal assets on the island to assist local crews including the u. S. Coast guard, the Navy 3rd Fleet and the u. S. Army. In the immediate aftermath the coast guard and navy support of maritime Search And Rescue operations. The Army Helicopters help Fire Suppression and efforts on the big island because theres still some burning on the big island, not the one where you see on television all the time. Femas deployed more than 140 urban Search And Rescue personnel as well. And there are so Many Organizations to thank like the American Red Cross helping survivors missing loved ones. Cell phone providers making sure First Responders can make and respond to emergency calls. Commercial airlines that have Evacuated Tens Of Thousands of people from the island. The list goes on. And the Small Business administration has dozens of staff on the island and has begun making low interest federal disaster loans available to hawaii businesses, homeowners and renters and nonprofits to help them begin to rebuild just to get by for the near term. And were going to coordinate and continue to coordinate relentlessly with the people on the ground to make sure critical work continues. In the meantime, you always hear this phrase, and ive been to so many zatdisasters in my career s almost hollow, our prayers are with the people of hawaii. And not just our prayers. Every asset. Every aset they need will be there for them. And well be there in maui as long as it takes. As long as it takes. And i mean that sincerely. Were going to have more to report on this. But today i come to milwaukee to talk about what were doing to bring manufacturing back home. Its about our progress building an economy from the middle out and the bottom up, not the top down. You know that trickledown weve been listening to President Biden in milwaukee where hes just commented on the ongoing crisis on maui. He says he is sending not just our prayers but every asset to help the people there, noting that the death toll now stands at 99. But he acknowledged, and im quoting him here, we dont know how many bodies because the saep of the burned area is just beginning. He also said in explaining his failure to visit maui to date, he says he does not want to get in the way of recovery efforts. Well continue to follow the tragedy in maui as well as the administrations response. Meanwhile, were also of course covering news from georgia last night. Former President Trump in total now facing some 91 charges across four criminal cases including georgias two cases, federal brought by special counsel jack smith, two state cases, one in new york, the latest in Fulton County, georgia. It can be hard to keep it all straight. Thats before you even get into the issue of coordinating the Upcoming Court appearances and trial dates. Case in point, while trump and his allies were focused on responding to the georgia charges today, one of his codefendants in the separate classified documents case was arraigned in florida. Cnns zachary cohen, hes been covering this from outside the courthouse in Fulton County. Zach, make sense of the latest for us, the latest charges coming out of that courthouse there behind you. Reporter yeah, jim, a busy legal calendar stacking up here for the former president. We know that the d. A. , fani willis, in georgia, in Fulton County here, has given the former president ten days to voluntarily surrender. She also issued what is effectively an Arrest Warrant if he does not choose to do so. We do expect trump to in person surrender to authorities here in georgia. The logistics and the details of that are still being worked out. But you have to keep in mind as well that there are 18 other codefendants that were named in this indictment who will also have to turn themselves in to authorities here in Fulton County. So you know, were going to have to really see how that plays out in terms of because fani willis herself has said she expects and wants to try all 19 individuals including trump together. And that really does sort of underscore what the message of this indictment was, the Sprawling Alleged Conspiracy Case that fani willis laid out in these Charging Documents with everything from organizing Fake Electors to Pressuring State Officials V Fishlz to breaching Voting Machines in Coffee County, it does paint this narrative of a broad conspiracy case that she is going to charge and charge in the near term. She did not comment when asked on whether she had spoken to the special counsel to coordinate it given there are going to be presumably some competing Court Appearances, trial dates Going Forward. Would that be expected in these circumstances . Jim, i think were kind of in Uncharted Waters overall here. With a former president whos now been indicted four separate times and is facing potential Court ChallengesGoing Forward, a Court CalendarGoing Forward with four separate cases. But you know, a federal case and a state case like this that do seem to overlap at times, they are going to have to work out the logistics. It was interesting that fani willis previously was asked about any contact she had with jack smiths team, she said she effectively didnt even know who jack smith was. Well see how that plays out Going Forward and if that does change. Of course all taking place in the midst of a president ial race as well. Zach cohen in atlanta. Jessica. And joining me now to discuss this further is nick ackerman. He was a special Assistant Prosecutor and Assistant Attorney for the Southern District of new york. Thanks for coming on with us. We know trump and his allies are facing these these rico charges are being used against them. Shes used the d. A. Down there has used that in the past to go after gangs, go after even schoolteachers in Atlanta Public Schools for inflating students test scores. Help us understand what the benefit if youre the d. A. Is to using rico here. Well, the benefit in this particular case is being able to put together all of these schemes to defraud which consist of multiple individual crimes and making it one crime that carries with it a sentence of up to 20 years in prison, a minimum of five years to complete the sentence, the sentence of five years, the minimum could be probation as well as prison. And theres no pardon here other than five years after a conviction that at that point you can go before the Georgia Pardon and parole board and seek a pardon if you so schooz. So what it really does is it puts together all of these different crimes as one single crime that carries very severe punishment. And it also puts it all together for the jury. As fani willis has said, this really explains to the jury the whole story. And this is the whole story thats put together. Basically, seven different criminal schemes, all of which simply boil down to really three things. One, a lot of lying. Lying about the concept that there was fraud in the election in 2020. Two, lying to upstanding Public Officials like Governor Kemp to try to get them to basically go against their oath of office that requires them to uphold the constitution and the laws of the state of georgia. And three, stealing. Trying to steal data from Coffee County to get voting data to try to prove a nonexistent voter fraud. So when you really come down to it, this entire case boils down to lying and stealing. Yeah. And it has all of those layers in it and all of those codefendants. Is it harder to prove these types of cases because they are so sprawling, or not . No, in some ways its actually easier because in a way you have them all together, it shows the interaction between and among the different schemes, it makes the jury understand the real criminality here. Ive used this particular statute i was on the first i was the first one to use it and the first one to use it against a mafia boss. And i had five, seven different crimes that if you took any one of them i could have never convicted this individual. But when you put them together under a rico statute they all interacted with each other and cases that would have never been brought because they couldnt have been proven beyond a reasonable doubt were easy to prove beyond a reasonable doubt with a rico count. Right. Because youre really putting it sounds like what youre saying is youre putting all those pieces together for the jury to let them see the full story there. Thats right. Nick akerman, thanks so much. Thanks for your analysis. We appreciate it. Great to see you. Jim . Coming up once again, he calls it a witch hunt and a politically inspired indictment. Former President Trump attacking the new criminal charges against him in the state of georgia. Despite it all trump remains the frontrunner for the republican nomination. So how some of his fellow gop rivals are reacting today. 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