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The Lead with Jake Tapper

Police investigating threats against GA grand jurors

The Lead with Jake Tapper

CNN

News

3.51.7K Ratings

🗓️ 17 August 2023

⏱️ 80 minutes

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Summary

A federal judge has been threatened and specific contact information for Georgia grand jurors were plastered throughout right-wing websites. We examine how Donald Trump’s legal troubles are leading to further security issues and fears of violence. Also, a look at the heartbreaking accounts from Hawaii as wildfire victims are starting to find the remains of their family members. Plus, an Idaho Teacher of the Year joins to answer why she’s fleeing her classroom.  To learn more about how CNN protects listener privacy, visit cnn.com/privacy Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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0:00.0

Indictments leading to death threats and danger the lead starts right now.

0:09.2

A federal judge threatened and specific contact information for Georgia grand jurors plastered

0:16.2

throughout right-wing websites how Donald Trump's legal troubles are leading to further

0:20.8

security issues and fear of violence and heartbreaking accounts from Hawaii as wildfire victims

0:28.6

are starting to find the remains of their family members.

0:33.6

But what he had seen was not just a body, but the body of a 15-year-old kid who had way

0:41.6

more life ahead of him.

0:45.6

Plus new warnings on North Korea possibly preparing to test a missile capable of reaching

0:50.8

the United States.

0:51.8

I'm going to ask White House National Security Council spokesman John Kirby about those

0:55.0

plans as President Biden prepares to hold the post the world leaders most concerned from

1:01.5

South Korea and Japan.

1:07.8

Welcome to the lead I'm Jake Tapper and we're going to start today with our law and justice

1:10.7

lead and the high price being paid for some individuals for just doing their civic duty.

1:17.6

Today police in Atlanta are trying to figure out how to best protect the grand jurors who

1:22.1

earlier this week voted to indict former President Donald Trump and 18 other co-defendants

1:28.0

unlike federal cases indictments in Fulton County, Georgia, which are made public include

1:32.9

the names of all of the jurors who served on the case.

1:38.1

And now those jurors names plus photograph social media information and even some home

1:42.8

addresses, not all of which are even necessarily the right ones.

1:47.2

This now all circulating on social media with experts saying that some anonymous users

1:53.4

are calling for violence against members of the jury.

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