Washington Week with The Atlantic full episode, 8/18/23

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Washington Week

News, News Commentary, Politics

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🗓️ 19 August 2023

⏱️ 22 minutes

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As things stand now, reporters will spend much of 2024 running between campaign rallies and court appearances by GOP frontrunner Donald Trump. Join The Atlantic editor-in-chief and moderator Jeffrey Goldberg, Dan Balz of The Washington Post, Zolan Kanno-Youngs of The New York Times, Tia Mitchell of The Atlanta Journal-Constitution and Elaina Plott Calabro of The Atlantic to discuss this and more.

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0:00.0	Donald Trump's historic felony charges.
0:04.0	We look at the facts, we look at the law, and we bring charges.
0:07.0	Justice and the rule of law are officially dead in America.
0:11.0	GOP frontrunner Donald Trump is charged with overseeing a criminal enterprise
0:15.0	meant to overturn his defeat in Georgia 2020 presidential race.
0:19.0	This is a ridiculous application.
0:22.0	It's a racketeering statute. There's probably no one that knows it better than I do.
0:26.0	Trump attorney Rudy Giuliani, the politician formerly known as America's mayor,
0:30.0	is indicted as a co-conspirator.
0:33.0	Plus, next week, the Republicans are staging their first presidential debate
0:37.0	without Trump, apparently.
0:39.0	Never before has the frontrunner for a major party nomination face 91 felony charges,
0:43.0	or one felony charge for that matter.
0:46.0	Next.
0:49.0	This is Washington Week with The Atlantic.
0:54.0	Good evening, and welcome to Washington Week with The Atlantic.
0:57.0	Tonight, Donald Trump has big problems.
1:00.0	Late Monday night, Fulton County, Georgia, D.A. Fawni Willis,
1:03.0	gave new meaning to the cliche sweeping indictment when she named Trump
1:07.0	and 18 others, including Rudy Giuliani and former White House Chief of Staff,
1:11.0	Mark Meadows, as co-conspirators in a plot to subvert democracy.
1:16.0	Rather than abide by Georgia's legal process for election challenges,
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