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The Briefing with Jen Psaki

Georgia On His Mind: Trump’s 4th Indictment and the Upcoming GOP Debate

The Briefing with Jen Psaki

NBC News

News, Politics

4.5664 Ratings

🗓️ 21 August 2023

⏱️ 42 minutes

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Summary

Jen Psaki breaks down the Fulton County DA’s indictment of Donald Trump and 18 others in what is now Trump’s 4th indictment. She is joined by former Bush administration Attorney General Alberto Gonzales plus legal analysts Andrew Weissmann and Neal Katyal. And later, Jen is joined by Republican presidential candidate Will Hurd ahead of the upcoming GOP presidential debate.

Transcript

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0:00.0

indictment number four ahead of debate number one. Buckle up for this week. Fulton County DA

0:07.1

Fon-Willis brings the total number of criminal counts facing Donald Trump to 91 and gives him until

0:12.9

this Friday to turn himself in. Ask George W. Bush's former attorney general Alberto Gonzalez

0:18.5

all about that new indictment and whether Trump should

0:21.3

serve time in prison if he's convicted. Plus, breaking news out of the classified documents

0:26.1

case about what Mark Meadows is reportedly telling the feds. Our in-house law firm of Katielan

0:31.2

Weissman is standing by with reaction to that. And later, the frontrunner plans to skip the

0:36.2

first debate on Wednesday night and sit down

0:38.0

for an interview with Tucker Carlson instead.

0:41.0

Republican candidate Will Hurd is here to talk about how to take on Trump in advance of

0:44.5

what's shaping up to be the weirdest, wildest debate week ever. With each passing week with every new indictment, we're learning more about the kind of country that Donald Trump tried to turn us into after the 2020 election.

1:07.0

A country in his mind where democracy is no longer the guiding principle, where votes can be found even when they're not earned, where the Justice Department can be used to keep a failed leader in power.

1:18.8

But with each new indictment, the latest out of Fulton County, Georgia, we're also learning more about the kind of country that in the face of all of that has so far survived. We're learning

1:29.0

more about the country we still are. A country where equal justice under law isn't some lofty

1:34.5

hypothetical, but actually means something, or kind of means more than anything. Donald Trump

1:39.7

continues to learn that lesson the hard way. After that grand jury in Fulton County indicted him in 18

1:45.0

co-defendants this week over an alleged conspiracy to overturn the election results in Georgia,

1:49.8

he is now facing a whopping 91 felony counts in total. 91. With a Friday deadline for all of

1:57.3

these defendants to turn themselves in, next week means a trip to the Fulton County Jail for the former president, and according

2:02.9

to the sheriff, it also means a mugshot.

2:05.8

That will be a first in this summer indictment tour.

2:08.6

And right now, Trump seems worried in a way that is sort of unusual for him, at least publicly.

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