Tim in everything say, oh, this is just weaponization, it blows my mind. why are you even running? just endorsed donald trump, work for him, try to get in the cabinet. because you know this is corrupt. the people that vote republican, i think in their hearts, obviously very good people. they have been so misled, yes, everyone s responsible for what they believe. to an extent, well, if all your leaders are telling you the doj s been weaponized, i guess it s fair to believe it. one of the things about this grand jury indictment in georgia, it actually lists the names of the jurors, the grand jurors, who are a part of it. not meant to be secret in that state. predictably, on truth social, there s all this chatter about these individuals. adam, quickly, what do you make of that? i m sure you can imagine what is being said about these individuals online. oh, look, i look at the
Us tonight. cnn primetime abby philip joe starts right. now thank you, caitlin, good evening, every everyone. i m abby philip, welcome to cnn prime time. the clock is now ticking, donald trump in 18 codefendants have just ten days to turn themselves in, after being indicted in georgia on serious criminal charges. the former president is accused of being the head of a criminal enterprise, to overturn joe biden s victory in that state. tonight, a local sheriff says he s expected to be out of fulton county jail. what is going on right now in trump s world, with just ten days to go until surrender? we also have news on mark meadows making a last-ditch attempt to get the case against him in georgia dismissed. we ll begin to all of that tonight. plus, the 45th president of the united states faces a stunning 91 criminal charges across four separate cases. and it will be tied up in multiple courtrooms, throughout this presidential cycle.
Have a chance to weigh in, that s what she s asking for right now because a lot of people have been asking, when might we see former president trump going to court to be arraigned or further initial appearance. it s going to take a while, the process at the state level is not exactly at the federal level with the past two indictments were he did his processing, his initial appearance and arraignment. all in one fell swoop, it s just a different process in georgia. she s asking the judge to keep september 5th. and arraignment on september 5th, backing up she wants him to surrender correct the week of. it s a very busy calendar not only because of all the legal chases that president trump is handling but what caitlin mentioned, he s campaigning for president and his legal team, most of their strategies rely
On the idea, delay, trying to push this back, what counterargument are you anticipating about a march 4th start date? that s been the tension, not only in fulton county but also the special counsel s investigation. the special counsel, one of the things he said publicly is that he wants a speedy trial, he believes it s in the public interest as caitlin was noting, for these cases to be resolved, the 2024 presidential election, it is unclear if it s going to be possible to conduct two federal trials before the election. many arguments, the first one is that they believe if he is a candidate for the presidency, that he should not be put on trial, he should not face trial before the presidential election, they argue that would be unfair. in the mar-a-lago documents
Investigation, the strength of a case is that for folks that are prominent, it s a lot of pressure, it could incentivize them cooperating. absolutely, the statute, the racketeering was designed to dismantle organized crime, of course for any crime, you do hope that at least one of those defendants will cooperate, strike some sort of deal, it is unusual unclear if that will happen, we expect many challenges. we were just talking about how mark meadows is trying to get this removed to federal court, we will try similar challenges. it is unclear, that seems an aggressive timeline for the case of this size or complexity. please standby, we have caitlin pull answer.
Public tweet as part of the allegations against donald trump in federal court. what messages are being sent privately in writing, perhaps the former president himself on january 6th or after, we could see that in a trial. we just don t know what they found. deleted tweets. caitlin, thank you so much. breaking news right now. paula? just in, in a court filing, the fulton county district attorney has asked for a march 4th trial date, not only key dates in the 2024 presidential election, also falls very close to another schedule, falsified records trial that is already on the former presidents
Georgia case, to. do you see echoes of watergate in this? or is it bigger than that? how do you see it? it is much bigger than watergate, kaitlan. it is of a whole different dimension. it goes to the very foundation of democracy, nixon abused some powers, he exceeded his authority when he shouldn t have, but he was not taking that on the basics of the country. where is trump wanted to stay in office, he wanted to use georgia and abuse georgia as part of that plan. so this is very different, much more serious and troubling. john dean, thank you for joining us tonight. thank you, caitlin. and we will be back with much more of our breaking news, breaking down this 98-page indictment. former president donald trump and 18 others have been indicted on what prosecutors allege was a wide ranging, multi state conspiracy. how far did it stretch?
Challenge, but you can t conspire and here, again, you can see the trying to educate a potential jury pool. she goes on to describe the overt act and a predicate act. she is educating already on rico, and she showing people, look, the reach of her jurisdiction, because of rico, goes even beyond her county. and even beyond her state. we ll see what happens in the actual proof that, caitlin. i ve a feeling you re going to be very busy at 11:00, laura. panel back with me now, scott, she soaked the point of what could ve been avoided? what a final thought? every day to be christmas, but that s the thing. you can go back in time and which people may different races, but we are where we are. my final all let that slide giving that it s 1:53 in the morning. that political analysis. heavy hitter over here, scott. a broad, broad majority of
Chaos and the person, the man or woman that can take the reins and it is going to be a factor in next week s debate. whether the former president is there or not but he will be there in essence because this is part of this gop primary. into one of the book is clearly it is going to the with all of this and how it affects the people on that stage. again, he is in milwaukee where he is not. trace: and the fact that they are trying to fast-track the case. they are slow walking the news conference. i just want to stand by. i want to bring and caitlyn jenner very quickly if i can because caitlin played golf with the former president this weekend and we are waiting for the press conference. former president s monk said. clearly he knew this was coming. and i m wondering if there was some anxiety there a little bit were just another day. it did not show because his team beat my team.
Georgia, he met misty hampton, and somehow got her number and went back to the white house with it. and that was someone that they were on the phone with very quickly after that, obviously trying to get access to the voting software and coffee county. when meadows went on to georgia, the misty hampton coffee county story is interesting, just to remind folks of that story. which cnn broke yesterday. and caitlin, you will jump in if i get any of this wrong. but it seems as though coffee county election officials invited trump campaign officials to basically have access to their voting machines. which according to prosecutors who is not illegal, is that right? yes, it is not illegal. and she is somebody who basically had written this statement in and all of our colleagues are people who broke this fascinating story. but she had basically written the invitation to come and view the software, which they are not allowed to do.