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Grand jury. now we're just waiting to see when that wraps up and when we could see a vote, katy. >> and it could possibly happen today. ken, lay out the scope here. what charges could be coming, emphasis on could? >> could is a good word, katy. it's a secret process. there's been a lot of reporting suggesting that fani willis is building a racketeering case, and there would be predicate crimes as a part of that. that's a sort of catch all conspiracy, so one of the possible crimes is forgery, another is false statements. essentially they're looking at a setting of actions taken by donald trump ...

Rico charges in the state of georgia. racketeering, influence, and corruption organizations act, it was founded in 1970, but apparently, georgia's rico laws are a bit broader than usual. take us through what rico is like in this particular state and how it may differ as far as the kinds of charges trump could be indicted on. >> i'll let joyce speak to the federal rico statute, but the georgia statute is one of the broadest in the country. in that it lists about 43 different predicate crimes or the types of acts that would make up this pattern of racketeering activity that would be vioilative o...

More breads to charge predicate crimes, so different crimes, the criminal in another them self but charged together as part of this enterprise, forwarding of this enterprise. >> so the concept of an enterprise, because we think about of it we think about most violent crimes in a business reporter, business enterprises that we're making money. does the jury have to understand that? do they have to see the effort to overturn the election as a group of people trying to do it, or is that not relevant? >> the enterprise can be very loosely formed. it's essentially an association of individuals. the...

Rigging, all sorts of what are called predicate crimes. and so in georgia, they have a version of that federal statute that allows you to charge various individual crimes as part of that overarching conspiracy. >> andrew weissmann, thank you very much. we have you on for your legal nerdery, appreciate it. closing arguments are under way in the proud boys trial. who the defense is actually blaming for the insurrection. plus, we told you why 2020 deja vu may be the best case for president biden in 2024, but what about congress? what does a trump/biden rematch do to the makeup of congress and...

Analyzing Trump's candidate crimes for a felony charge, including campaign finance crimes and conspiracy to promote an election.