MSNBC Rachel Maddow (video) - 08-14-2023-224945
MSNBC Rachel Maddow (video)
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🗓️ 14 August 2023
⏱️ 23 minutes
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| 0:00.0 | You're watching a live feed from a courthouse in Fulton County, Georgia. |
| 0:05.8 | That's Judge Robert McBernie on the bench who just told all the reporters still in that room |
| 0:12.5 | that, quote, you need to leave. He said he meant it in a nice way. What's just happened here, |
| 0:19.7 | and we'll get some expert advice on this in just a moment. But under Georgia's state law, |
| 0:25.5 | when a grand jury hands down an indictment, it goes immediately to the presiding judge who's |
| 0:33.4 | been overseeing the work of that grand jury. In this case, that is Judge McBernie. |
| 0:39.8 | The judge then has the option with what he is going to do with the indictment that has been handed |
| 0:45.6 | up to him. In this case, he read it silently to himself. He seems to have flipped through it. |
| 0:52.9 | All we could tell was that it was printed on letter-sized white paper and seemed to be about |
| 0:57.6 | that thick and had a few different striations to it in terms of the way it was divided with binder |
| 1:02.0 | clips. But he did not provide any information about what the charges are, about who the defendants are, |
| 1:10.0 | or indeed about the content of the indictment. Now, what is going to happen from here on out? |
| 1:16.0 | We know the basics under Georgia state law, but we don't know exactly how it will play out this |
| 1:21.9 | evening. Again, this is live. This is the clerk. You see holding those indictment. What we believe |
| 1:29.9 | are the indictments that I just described in her left hand here. It's very unusual that this |
| 1:36.0 | happening after 9 p.m. This courthouse usually closes for regular business at 5 p.m. The grand jury |
| 1:42.1 | that was considering this matter today is one that meets on Mondays and Tuesdays that raised the |
| 1:47.2 | prospect that this grand jury proceeding might continue through to tomorrow. But they have |
| 1:56.4 | apparently pushed through and asked the grand jury to take their vote, which has resulted in the |
| 2:02.7 | delivery of those. What we believe are indictments to the judge. They were then effectively |
| 2:08.8 | certified by the judge. I think that's the right way to describe it and then give them back to the |
| 2:13.1 | clerk. So we'll be keeping our eyes on what's happening inside the courthouse. The reason I say we |
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