It's the Bryan Lair show on WNIC. Good morning, everyone. Here's a really important thing

about the Trump indictment in Georgia that's not about his guilt or innocence. It's about

who wins there in 2024. Georgia, don't forget, has become an ultimate swing state in presidential

elections and for control of the United States Senate, right? Biden won there by two tenths

of 1%, according to the certified results, or around just 12,000 votes out of nearly

5 million cast. Georgians have elected Republican Governor Brian Kemp twice now over Democrat

Stacey Abrams, but both its U.S. Senators are Democrats, John Ossoff and Raphael Warnock.

Georgia is an ultimate swing state these days. So if this trial is taking place in 2024, over

charges of crimes being committed locally in Georgia, well, there's a lot at stake that

will be determined by voters not jurors. And to complicate matters even more, maybe you heard

this, Trump announced yesterday that he will stage some kind of event next Monday at his

Bedminster Golf Club in New Jersey to try to convince people even now of presidential

election fraud in Georgia in 2020. So let's talk about the implications of the 2020 election

related legal process for the 2024 election political process with Stephen Fowler, state

and local politics reporter for Georgia Public Broadcasting and host of their podcast,

Battleground Ballot Box. Stephen, thanks for coming on with us and

all this breaking news in your state. Hello, of course, always a pleasure. Let's start

with this Georgia Focus news conference that Trump says he'll hold next Monday. I see

Republican Governor Brian Kemp has already issued a public statement kind of a pre-buttal,

I guess. What's Governor Kemp saying? Well, first, you know, we don't actually know what

Donald Trump is going to say on Monday, or if he's actually going to have it, there is

no massive report of election fraud in Georgia. Georgia had three different counts of this presidential

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