"And so it begins..."
Deadline: White House
Nicolle Wallace, MS NOW
4.5 • 6.4K Ratings
🗓️ 22 August 2023
⏱️ 90 minutes
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| 0:00.0 | Hi, everyone. It's Borkark in the East. And so it begins the 19 co-defendants indicted |
| 0:10.3 | by Fulton County District Attorney Fanny Willis for their roles in a criminal enterprise |
| 0:15.0 | to overturn the results of the presidential election in Georgia and beyond have begun |
| 0:19.8 | to surrender. It is a brand new chapter in the legal effort to hold the accused liars, |
| 0:25.2 | broadsters, and criminal coupplotters accountable. Today, a flurry of activity at the Fulton |
| 0:30.6 | County jail. So far, we have seen two of the 19 defendants turn themselves in. The first |
| 0:36.3 | was Scott Hall, a Georgia bail bondsman, who was charged in the coffee county election |
| 0:41.2 | data breach. And the second, the Puba, the grand architect of the coup plot, Donald Trump's |
| 0:46.9 | former lawyer, John Eastman. Today, a moment of reckoning for a key figure in the attempt |
| 0:51.6 | to overturn the results of the 2020 presidential election. But a potential criminal conviction |
| 0:57.6 | seemingly not deterring Eastman from continuing to repeat the lies about the election that |
| 1:03.1 | led to him being indicted in the first place. Outside the jailhouse, after Eastman had been |
| 1:07.7 | processed, our colleague, Ali Vitale, asked him if he still believes the election was stolen. |
| 1:12.7 | He said, quote, absolutely, no question, no question in my mind. Eastman surrender, proving |
| 1:17.9 | that this warning from former White House lawyer, Eric Hirschman, was all too prescient. |
| 1:22.6 | I said, I only want to hear two words coming out of your mouth for now on orderly transition. |
| 1:29.4 | Eventually, you said orderly transition. I said, good, John, now I'm going to give you |
| 1:34.2 | the best free legal advice you're ever getting in your life. Get a great F in criminal |
| 1:39.6 | offense lawyer. You're going to need it. And then I hung up on him. |
| 1:46.3 | Today's activity, of course, coming two days ahead of Donald Trump turning himself in. |
| 1:52.4 | He posted on social media that he will travel to Atlanta Thursday to be arrested. Yesterday, |
| 1:57.8 | the disgraced ex-president agreed to a $200,000 bond. And his consent order was notable |
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