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Good evening and good to see you. let's talk about what's happening with january 6th with the election. the election of 2020. the georgia district attorney just got the green light to seat a special grand jury to investigate trump's efforts to overturn his 2020 loss in that state. the grand jury will be seated may 2nd and the da says she expects a charging decision in the first half of 2022. that is essentially a month. what does that tell you about her case? >> well, that tells me it is proceeding quite rapidly although i note we're talking about almost more than a year at this point since of...

Going. we know the da herself said she expects possibly to decide on charges by midyear. the special grand jury will begin sitting may 2nd. jim and bee an fla. >> jessica, thank you so much. joining us is laura jarrett, the anchor of "early start" and previously covered the justice department and errol louis, cnn political commentator and host of the you decide podcast. laura, what will be the fbi be looking at in terms of how to respond to this request for more security following the president's words that his supporters should come out and protest massively in these three cities where he's...

At least at this phase of the case, meaning the investigative phase, which is everything we've been doing up to the special purpose grand jury. they're now in place, and they each have their roles and they're doing their work, and they're clear on what my directives are. >> that was fulton county d.a. fani willis in a brand-new interview with the "atlanta journal constitution" announcing or at least making public that her investigation into the disgraced ex-president's attempts to overturn the election result in georgia has entered a new phase. prosecutors have now turned their attention to th...

It is imperative these resources are in place well in advance of the convening of the special purpose grand jury. as we learned last week, that special grand jury will sit. it was approved. that will start may 2nd, they'll be able to subpoena people for testimony in the da's probe, also compel discovery. obviously the da there, fani willis, very concerned of possible threats, especially that trump is publicly promising mosh protests. da fani willis expressed in this letter, she's worried there could potentially be a repeat of january 6th in atlanta if his supporters interpret trump's words as ...

Went quiet immediately. she agreed to speak with you. what did she tell you? >> she acknowledged that the investigation is entering into a new phase. she kind of announced that she was looking into former president trump, his allies and didn't say much. she told me her prosecutors have spent the last year reading up on everything that's out there, talking to witnesses who were willing to talk without a subpoena, but she mentioned that she really has hit a wall in terms of folks who are willing to talk to her without a subpoena. a couple of weeks ago she requested and was granted a special purp...