Trump reacts to Georgia indictment: “I have four of them now”

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🗓️ 18 August 2023

⏱️ 46 minutes

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Former President Trump reacted to the Georgia indictment calling it a “witch hunt” and a “horrible thing for the country.” The indictment accuses him of being the head of a “criminal enterprise” to overturn the 2020 election. 34-year-old Judge Scott McAfee is assigned to the case and just became a Fulton County Superior Court judge back in February. Former federal judge Shira Scheindlin tells Anderson Cooper how she thinks Judge McAfee will handle this complex and high-profile trial. Plus, the death toll from the Maui wildfires has risen to at least 111 people with the possibility of 1,000 still missing. CNN Chief Climate Correspondent Bill Weir joins AC360 from Kihei, Hawaii where the search and rescue efforts continue.

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0:00.0	Tonight at 360 in a rest, after one judge on a Trump trial gets a racist death
0:06.0	threat and from another trial, grand jurors, names and addresses posted on a
0:09.7	far right website, the growing concerns about what might happen next. Also, he
0:14.1	promised a big press conference just two days ago, claiming he'd finally blow
0:17.5	the lid off 2020 election fraud, more signs tonight, he was no surprise, just
0:22.6	blowing smoke. And Hawaii, with a thousand people, still unaccounted for a
0:27.9	CNN investigation into why Maui's emergency sirens stayed deadly silent.
0:32.5	Good evening. Thanks so much for joining us. We begin tonight with breaking news.
0:36.3	The former president's attorneys have weighed in with what they want the trial
0:39.9	date to be in the federal election subversion case, and it's a long way off.
0:44.0	The Justice Department had proposed January of 2024. The former president's
0:48.6	attorneys now say the trial should not start until April 2026.
0:52.8	That's more than two and a half years from now. And if Mr. Trump has elected
0:56.1	president again, it's effectively never. The lawyers in their filing saying the
1:00.6	Justice Department's proposed date denies them the ability to prepare for trial.
1:05.0	Joining us now seen a legal analyst and former Manhattan chief assistant
1:07.9	district attorney, Karen Friedman Agnifalo. So Karen, what do you make of this
1:12.8	proposed start date by the former president's attorneys?
1:17.0	So he has been in all his cases essentially saying
1:21.4	delay, delay, delay, right? That's his number one
1:23.9	thick and judges have gotten wind of that. And he did write a lot in this motion that this,
1:29.5	I think, 16-page motion that his lawyers submitted where they talked about how much
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