'Right around the corner': Legal peril for Trump gets real as grand juries are seated
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MS NOW, Alex Wagner
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🗓️ 12 July 2023
⏱️ 42 minutes
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| 0:00.0 | Imagine there were 50-50 odds that you had just been chosen as one of the people who will decide whether or not to criminally indict Donald Trump. |
| 0:09.0 | That may very well be the case for the grand jurors who were just seated in Fulton |
| 0:13.8 | County, Georgia. Today about a hundred Georgians showed up at the Superior Court |
| 0:18.8 | of Fulton County in Atlanta and for the sake of their privacy we are not going to show you any of them. |
| 0:24.6 | But you can see Fulton County District Attorney Fawny Willis was in the room. |
| 0:29.6 | There she is right there. |
| 0:30.9 | Now the judge sent about half of the potential jurors home, but the other half he |
| 0:36.2 | directed to one side of the room or the other. They were split into Grand Jury A and Grand Jury |
| 0:42.2 | B. |
| 0:43.4 | Each one was made up of 23 jurors plus alternates. |
| 0:48.3 | Now, other than the $25 a day |
| 0:50.4 | these grand jurors will get for their time, |
| 0:52.3 | they may also get the chance to make history. |
| 0:55.9 | For more than two years now, Fawnee Willis has been investigating Trump's alleged election |
| 1:00.2 | interference in the state of Georgia. Last year, the DA impaneled a special grand jury |
| 1:05.9 | that heard from a grand total of 75 witnesses. |
| 1:09.4 | The four women of that special grand jury |
| 1:11.2 | has since told the press that the jurors recommended |
| 1:13.6 | indictments for multiple people on a range of charges. But that special |
| 1:19.3 | grand jury did not have the power to indict on its own. |
| 1:23.2 | To bring an indictment, DA Willis needs the approval of a regular grand jury, like the two that |
| 1:28.0 | were seated today, which happened and the timeline remains unclear. |
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