Today, Donald Trump pleaded not guilty to felony charges for the fourth time in less than five

months. Trump entered a plea of not guilty to all 13 charges against him in the Georgia case,

overheaged his alleged attempts to overturn his 2020 election loss.

The former president chose not to appear in court to make that plea, waving his right to

an arrangement. Trump's lawyers also asked the court to officially separate his trial

from several of his co-defendants in that case who have requested their trials be sped up.

The Trump legal team offered a now familiar argument about not having enough time to prepare for

a trial in the near future. Today, we also got our first look at the full transcript of the former

Trump chief of staff, Mark Meadows, after he took the stand for nearly four hours earlier this week.

That transcript included Meadows' explanation for one of the most curious and overtly political

incidents in the whole Georgia saga. After the 2020 election, Meadows made a surprise trip to a

civic center in Cobb County, Georgia, where the state's ballot auditing process was taking place.

Now, no one's really been able to explain what Meadows was doing there that day.

But during his cross examination on the stand, Mark Meadows told the court that he showed up

to that ballot counting facility uninvited. He said no one told him to go there. He just happened

to be in the Atlanta area at the time, so he thought he'd show up. You know, you're on vacation

in Atlanta, you visit the Coca-Cola Museum, you're taking a ride on the Ferris wheel, then you drive

out to the Cobb County Civic Center and take in a nice ballot audit, a totally normal thing to do.

Prosecutors also appear to have caught Mark Meadows in a lie about his involvement in the alleged

plot to organize fake electors in Georgia, quoting from the transcript. Prosecutor says,

did you have any role, Mr. Meadows, in coordinating the various electors in the contested states

for the Trump campaign? Meadows replies, no, I did not. Prosecutor, no role at all, Meadows.

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