Wednesday, August 16, 2023

The Briefing with Albert Mohler

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🗓️ 16 August 2023

⏱️ 25 minutes

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Summary

This is The Briefing, a daily analysis of news and events from a Christian worldview.

Part I (00:13 - 17:02)
A Fourth Indictment and Endless Questions: RICO, Criminal Conspiracy and the Law of Unintended Consequences

Part II (17:02 - 21:49)
Is This One Indictment Too Far?: Big Issues Come to the Surface When Considering the State Charges Brought Against Former President Trump

Is Georgia’s case against Trump one case too many? by Washington Post (Ruth Marcus)

Part III (21:49 - 25:14)
Zoom Requires Employees to Return to Work at Headquarters: How’s That for Irony?

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0:00.0	It's Wednesday, August 16, 2023.
0:07.7	I'm Albert Moeller, and this is The Briefing, a daily analysis of news and events from
0:12.2	a Christian worldview.
0:14.4	As was predicted yesterday, a grand jury in Atlanta, Georgia, handed down the fourth
0:20.6	criminal indictment against the former president of the United States, Donald J. Trump.
0:25.8	I say as expected, because there had been a great deal of confirmation speculation, conversation
0:32.1	about the fact that the grand jury was meeting, and the prosecutor in this case, the local
0:36.6	district attorney, Fannie Willis, had announced that she was close to bringing the indictment
0:42.2	request to the grand jury.
0:44.6	At the end of the business day yesterday, it appeared that nothing was going to happen
0:48.9	in the course of the rest of the day, simply because the grand jury had been hearing testimony
0:53.8	and had basically gone into recess.
0:56.4	But then, just almost at the midnight hour, the release came of a massive criminal indictment.
1:04.6	Massive in this case, meaning it is more complicated, it includes more charges than
1:08.9	just about any of the other indictments, and indeed most of the other indictments related
1:12.7	to Donald Trump put together.
1:14.7	The former president was himself charged with 13 crimes, and what's also notable about
1:20.8	this indictment is that some of the persons referred to as unindicted co-conspirators in
1:26.4	the federal indictment.
1:28.6	We're not unindicted in this case.
1:30.4	They were indicted specifically.
1:32.3	This includes many of the most famous members of the Trump legal team, including former New
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