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Grand jury was impanelled in may of 2022. after seven months and 75 witnesses, they authored a report in december 2022 recommending indictments. the sprawling case has involved some of the biggest names in the trump orbit as well as some local and state-level politicians many of which you may have never heard of. district attorney willis was considering charging under georgia's racketeer, influenced and corrupt organizations act, referred to as r.i.c.o. >> in practical terms, racketeering is a power tool for prosecutors because it enables you to charge a group of people all together and it ena...

Report in december 2022 recommending indictments. the sprawling case has involved some of the biggest names in the trump orbit, as well as some local and state-level politicians, many of which you may have never even heard of. and this entire investigation stems back to a single phone >> district attorney willis w was -- referred to as rico. >> in practical terms racketeering is a very powerful tool for prosecutors because it enables you to charge a group of people all together and it enables you as a prosecutor to show the jury the full extent of this group. >> it's normally used for the mob,...

Eye-popping some. but in the same period of time, trump spent 90 million. and 30 cents of every dollar that they spent was on legal fees, and other investigation related bills. $27 million to fight his legal troubles in just the first six months of the year. a period of time when he was only facing two criminal indictments instead of the current for. those are big expenses. seemingly unsustainable expenses. now, in hearing for the federal 2020 election case in d. c. last friday, one of trump's lawyers mentioned that they planned to use volunteer lawyers to help handle the case. volunteer lawye...

Because it is a two edged sword in the d. c. case because you have jack smith who is saying i want a fast trial. we will see the same thing playing out in the georgia case. where fani willis is now saying that he wants a march trial. and at the same time, the defense gets to say, there is a huge amount of resources needed to get through this. so one of the things that was argued before judge chutkan in the d. c. case, was could you give sensitive material to volunteer lawyers as mary talked about? the judge was basically, like i really don't want volunteer lawyers. because that opens a real pa...

From all of our colleagues in colleagues across nbc news, thanks for staying up late. i'll see at the end of tomorrow. tomorrow >> thanks to you at home for joining me this hour once again. we now have a date, march 4th, 2024. that is the day that fulton county district attorney, fani willis, proposed her case against trump and his 18 codefendants that is the date that she would like to put it to trial. that would put this trial in georgia just two months after the january 2nd date that special counsel jack smith proposed for the federal case against trump's attempts to overturn the 2020 elect...