S9 Ep. 26: The Forewoman Emerges

Breakdown

The Atlanta Journal-Constitution

Politics, News, True Crime

4.6 • 2.7K Ratings

🗓️ 1 March 2023

⏱️ 44 minutes

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In a lengthy interview, Emily Kohrs, forewoman of the Fulton County special purpose grand jury, says the panel has recommended indictments. “It’s not a short list,” Kohrs, 30, said. Kohrs first emerged in an article published by The Associated Press the morning of Feb. 21. Hours later, she sat down for an interview at the offices of The Atlanta Journal-Constitution. She would later sit for TV interviews. In Episode 26 – “The Forewoman Emerges” – of Breakdown’s ninth season – “The Trump Grand Jury” – we hear Kohrs discuss the special grand jury investigation of possible criminal meddling with the 2020 presidential election. Kohrs talks about certain witnesses who appeared before the panel and reveals information never made public before. Drew Findling and Jennifer Little, Atlanta lawyers representing former President Donald Trump, also sit for an interview and criticize Kohrs for the comments she made and District Attorney Fani Willis for the way she has conducted the investigation. “This type of carnival clown-like atmosphere that was portrayed over the course of the last 36 hours takes away from the complete sanctity and the integrity and, for that matter, the reliability,” Findling said of the special grand jury. You can download the Breakdown podcast from Apple Podcasts, Spotify, Google Podcasts, Stitcher or your favorite podcasting platform. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:00.0	It's worth knowing which is really going on.
0:04.0	This is the Atlanta Journal Constitution.
0:11.0	Previously on Breakdown.
0:13.0	This is a tough thing. It is only germane to intent.
0:17.0	If you can show that at the time the evidence was so overwhelming
0:25.0	that the election had not been stolen at that time,
0:29.0	that he knew, not even that he has to have known,
0:34.0	that what he was saying wasn't true, that he in fact knew that the election had not been stolen,
0:41.0	but he said it anyway.
0:43.0	It was politically important because the special grand jury went out of their way to say that the 23 of them decided unanimously
0:54.0	that there was no evidence of sufficiently widespread fraud in Georgia.
1:00.0	I really think that that was a nice thrust into the heart of Trump's election denialism.
1:09.0	We need to be very cautious. This is not a game.
1:13.0	It's criminal justice. It's prosecution. It's the power of the state to deprive people of liberty, right?
1:21.0	They're convicted and so it's important that we get this right and that we search for truth,
1:27.0	which means being patient.
1:29.0	After the special purpose grand jury was dissolved in January,
1:32.0	we had been hoping to find one of the jurors on that panel.
1:35.0	Well, our friend Kate Brumback from Associated Press tracked down its four women.
1:40.0	After Brumback published a story on the four women's insights,
1:44.0	a great scoop I might add, we tracked her down too.
1:47.0	But man, we weren't expecting someone so young, forthcoming and well expressive.
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