Good morning. Welcome, Nexios today. It's Tuesday, August 15th. I'm Naila Boudou.

Today on the show, AI comes for books. But first, an alleged criminal enterprise.

Trump and allies are indicted in Georgia. That's today's one big thing.

Last night, an Atlanta grand jury indicted former President Trump and 18 of his allies in their probe into efforts to flip Georgia's 2020 presidential election results.

The indictment alleges that rather than abide by Georgia's legal process for election challenges, the defendants engaged in a criminal racketeering enterprise to overturn Georgia's presidential election results.

That was Fulton County district attorney Fannie Willis speaking to reporters last night. Among those charged are lawyers Rudy Giuliani and John Eastman and former White House chief of staff Mark Meadows.

This is the fourth indictment against Trump since April. Exxios co-founder Mike Allen is here. Good morning, Mike. Good morning, Naila.

Walk us through this indictment. What to your mind stands out the most here?

Former President Trump now faces 91 felony charges. And this is why we're calling last night's action in Atlanta.

The indictment Trump feared most because this indictment ties together multiple actions by multiple people over multiple states.

So here's what's new, the use of a state mobster statue, the Rico law that we know from movies, racketeer organizations.

And this was used to charge Trump and those 18 allies that you mentioned with violating the oath of office conspiracy to commit forgery, filing false documents and more.

And now we'll look at this complexity at that late night news conference we just heard a bite from the district attorney said that these 19 co-dependence will be tried together.

They have up until noon on Friday, August 25th to surrender. So what we have is we look ahead to the 2024 election, which is looking like a rematch of the Biden Trump 2020 election.

We're going to see it interspersed with the essential sometimes deafening context of all these legal cases.

What are we hearing from Trump and others about this so far?

So the Trump team put out a statement that said we look forward to reviewing the indictment undoubtedly just as flawed and unconstitutional as this entire process has been.

But Nile behind the scenes, Trump people know that the gravity of this is growing, the distraction of this is growing.

Like for a while, they were playing up as you know the attention to the indictments as we've talked about.

But now you have a situation where as one of my colleagues put it, Trump could be spending as much time in courrooms as he is on the campaign trail.

This is the fourth indictment. So incredibly, this may start to feel almost commonplace. Can you take a step back and remind us why this matters?

Sure. First, look at how big this single one is. It's Rico. No president can pardon him on this. The specifics are very damning, very detailed.

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