What's So Complicated About A Special Grand Jury; Copycat Coup in Brazil

It's Complicated

Renato Mariotti

News Commentary, News, Politics

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🗓️ 12 January 2023

⏱️ 44 minutes

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This week Asha and Renato delve into the Special Grand Jury that just wrapped up in Georgia. Does Fani Willis have the goods? Also, Brazil faced a January 6th-style attack on January 8th. How will they handle the aftermath of their copycat coup? Subscribe to our podcast: https://link.chtbl.com/its-complicated Follow Asha on Twitter: https://twitter.com/AshaRangappa_ Follow Renato on Twitter: https://twitter.com/renato_mariotti Follow Asha on Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/asha.rangappa/ Follow Renato on Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/renato.mariotti/ Asha's Substack: https://www.asharangappa.substack.com Subscribe on Youtube: https://www.youtube.com/@Its.Complicated/ Follow Asha on Twitter: https://twitter.com/AshaRangappa_ Asha's Substack: https://asharangappa.substack.com/ Follow Renato on Twitter: https://twitter.com/renato_mariotti Follow Asha on Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/asha.rangappa/ Follow Renato on Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/renato.mariotti/Follow Renato on Threads: https://www.threads.net/@renato.mariotti Opening Theme and Bumper music provided by eitanepsteinmusic / Pond5 Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:00.0	M. S. W. Media.
0:04.0	So Asha, it looks like Fulton County, D.A. Fanny Willis is starting to close in on Trump.
0:16.0	How strong is her case?
0:18.0	It's complicated. I'm Renata Mariati. I'm a former federal prosecutor, a practicing lawyer, and a legal analyst.
0:32.0	And I'm Asha Rengappa.
0:33.8	I teach national security law at Yale University.
0:36.7	I'm a former FBI special agent,
0:39.0	and I'm a legal and national security analyst. And we're here to help you understand topics that can't be boiled down into a sound bite or a tweet. So, Asha, it really seems like an indictment is close in the Fulton County case.
1:01.0	The special grand jury ended their investigation.
1:05.0	Every public statement I've seen from Fannie Willis seems like she's just very
1:10.8	determined to indict Trump. I really think that's where this is going. What about you?
1:15.2	I think so. I mean, she has subpoenaed a ton of witnesses, including some, you know, pretty high up names, Rudy Giuliani, Jenna Ellis,
1:28.3	even Lindsay Graham was forced to come in and testify.
1:33.0	So, you know, I think that you might be right.
1:36.0	I was actually asked on Katie Fang's show last week
1:40.0	whether I thought which of the cases were going to move first. I had said Maralago. I didn't
1:47.4	think that funny Willis was this close, but you know if the special grand jury, and I think just to, for our listeners, the special
1:55.3	grand jury did not have the capacity to issue an indictment.
2:00.7	She would have to go to a regular grand jury, I take it, to, and then present her
2:06.9	evidence and get that indictment.
2:10.7	Yeah, what that looks like just so our listeners understand is essentially the investigators
2:19.1	will be brought into the grand jury as witnesses and then they will read the transcripts.
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