Welcome to the beat. I'm Ari Melber joining you this Thursday, December 28th and the Georgia

DA is pushing to put Donald Trump on trial in August of next year, 2024. Willis is planning to go forward with that RICO trial regardless of the

presidential campaign and we begin with this story because that could put her

in the spotlight next year.

Now to our special report, for all the prosecutions that have come out of the January 6th

insurrection, from trespassers to those who blatantly attack police to the actual malicious

seditionists, No Trump aid has been put on trial

for actions to steal the election either that day or in the weeks leading up to that day.

DA Fawnee Willis has brought this assertive RICO case there

against Trump and 18 others.

People just starting to learn about this prosecutor.

I think it's a choice actually between integrity and corruption good and bad.

That was Willis but not talking about this case. There she was discussing what she called the choice during

her campaign for this post and we will get to that in a few moments it's pretty

interesting. But in this case she previewed these upcoming arguments by outlining the legal theory that

Trump and those co-defendants actually formed a legal gang or racketeering enterprise, which existed to overthrow Biden's lawful win in Georgia.

Rather than abide by Georgia's legal process for election challenges, the defendants engaged in a criminal

racketeering enterprise to overturn Georgia's presidential election result.

Now that state racketeering law is a powerful tool for prosecutors.

There were observers who questioned whether this was a reach to use it in the Trump case.

But I could tell you tonight, Willis's approach is not specific to Trump.

She's deployed this powerful law in other untraditional ways, even before she rose to this job.

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