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“Our first real glimpse”

Deadline: White House

MSNBC

News, Donald Trump, Daily News, The White House, Nicolle Wallace, Politics, Nbc News, Washington Dc, Msnbc, Government

4.66K Ratings

🗓️ 16 February 2023

⏱️ 94 minutes

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Summary

Nicolle Wallace discusses the release of portions of the report from Fulton County District Attorney Fani Willis’s special grand jury that gives a sense of how deep the investigation into the disgraced former president goes, new reporting that Special Counsel Jack Smith has subpoenaed former White House Chief of Staff Mark Meadows in his investigation, residents in East Palestine, Ohio wanting new answers after the train derailment and more. Joined by: Patricia Murphy, Neal Katyal, Katty Kay, Jocelyn Benson, Glenn Thrush, Michael Cohen, Barbara McQuade, Susanne Craig, Shane Harris, Brandon Van Grack and George Solis.

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0:00.0

Hi everyone, it's Foreclark in New York before the January 6th select committee ever got

0:12.0

up the ground before it existed and well before the first signs ever emerged that the justice

0:17.4

department was investigating the Trump part of the Trump coup plot.

0:21.6

Before even Donald Trump's second impeachment trial wrapped up, one local prosecutor in

0:26.4

Georgia decided that she would take on Donald Trump and the unprecedented assault on our

0:31.2

democracy in the wake of the 2020 election and she launched a criminal probe into the

0:36.4

conduct of the ex-president and his allies in her state.

0:40.4

Today, about two years and one week to the day that that investigation was launched, we

0:45.7

finally got our first real glimpse into her work, the work of Fulton County District

0:50.6

Attorney Fannie Willis.

0:52.5

The report was compiled by a special grand jury that was called last year by Willis were

0:57.4

released this morning.

0:59.0

The report gives us a sense of the breadth and depth of her investigation, 75 witnesses,

1:04.7

a mountain of documents and data along with testimony from investigators and there are

1:10.0

two major findings with what was released from the special grand jury.

1:14.1

They were inside the excerpts of the report released this morning, one of which could lead

1:18.4

to major legal consequences for one or more of those 75 witnesses.

1:24.2

We'll read from the report.

1:25.2

A majority of the grand jury believes that perjury may have been committed by one or more

1:30.0

witnesses testifying before it.

1:32.3

The grand jury recommends that the district attorney seek appropriate indictments for such

1:36.5

crimes or the evidence is compelling.

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