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🗓️ 11 July 2023
⏱️ 41 minutes
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A milestone approaches in one of the key investigations into Trump, as selection begins with a grand jury that seems likely to indict the former president in Fulton County, Georgia for his efforts to overturn the 2020 election. Former White House staffer Sarah Matthews joins to give her insight into the people and advice Trump was listening to following his election defeat. Also tonight: Ron DeSantis’ biggest campaign hurdle, the Kremlin says Putin met with Wagner boss Prigozhin but offers no proof, CNN Contributor Bob Costas joins to discuss tomorrow’s Senate hearing on the PGA/LIV Golf Tour, and as the Pennsylvania murder suspect manhunt continues - how do you catch a survivalist on the run?
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0:00.0 | The Curtain Opens on the final act in the case against Donald Trump, the Georgia edition, |
0:13.7 | just as Rudy Giuliani takes center stage, hair and makeup optional as always. |
0:18.9 | I'm John Berman and this is CNN Tonight or CNN very nearly tomorrow, as I like to call |
0:26.0 | and tomorrow, which is now just minutes away, is a milestone in one of the key investigations |
0:31.1 | into former President Trump. Tomorrow, selection begins for the grand jury, which seems likely to |
0:36.8 | vote on whether to indict Trump in Fulton County, Georgia for his efforts to overturn the 2020 |
0:42.4 | election there. This was the call Trump made to Georgia Secretary of State Brad Raffensberger |
0:47.4 | to find votes there. So, look, what I want to do is this. I just want to find |
0:56.0 | 11,780 votes, which is one more that we have because we won the state. |
1:06.8 | So this new grand jury could move well beyond that phone call and expand charges into the realm |
1:11.6 | of fraud and racketeering. It follows an investigation from a special grand jury that did not have |
1:17.7 | power to indict, but sounds like it would have if it could have. They wrote, quote, a majority of |
1:23.6 | the grand jury believes that perjury may have been committed by one or more witnesses testifying |
1:28.4 | before it. The grand jury recommends that the district attorney seek appropriate indictments for |
1:33.2 | such crimes where the evidence is compelling. This, as we are learning that as soon as tomorrow, |
1:39.9 | Rudy Giuliani could reach a resolution in a dispute with former Georgia election workers, |
1:45.1 | one Dre at Shay Moss in Ruby Freeman. After they accused him of defaming them after the 2020 election. |
1:55.4 | Name and I've lost my reputation, I've lost my sense of security, |
2:02.8 | all because a group of people starting with number 45 and his ally Rudy Giuliani decided to |
2:12.6 | scapegoat me and my daughter Shay to push their own lies about how the presidential election was stolen. |
2:22.4 | A whole lot of reality seems to be raining down on Giuliani, including the special counsel |
2:27.3 | asking him questions. And to Washington DC panel recommending he be disbarred for his actions after |
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