there is a tape earlier in the day of ruby freeman and shaye freeman moss and one other gentlemen obviously surreptitiously passing around usb ports as if they were vials of heroin or cocaine. >> that was a transparently racist lie. obvious and despicable at the time, ruby freeman and shaye did absolutely nothing wrong. in fact, they were just two women who wanted to contribute their efforts and labor to the maintenance of american democracy, dispatching their duty with diligence and patriotism. they became the target of these conspiracies when a far-right website published lies about the two women committing voter fraud in georgia. that initiated a feedback loop that made its way to giuliani and donald trump, who decided to make these two black women in the center of their deranged voter fraud conspiracy. again and again both in public and in private, the two men lied, claiming these two election workers, two women who were doing the glamour less work of making sure an election worked, counting votes, these two women had somehow stolen tens of thousands of votes in the state of georgia. on

by name nearly 20 times. 18,000 voters having to do with ruby freeman. a vote scammer, a professional vote scammer and hustler, ruby freeman. the minimum number is 18,000 for ruby. but they think it's probably about 56,000. but the minimum number is 18,000 on the ruby freeman night where she ran back in there when everybody was gone and stuffed. she stuffed the ballot boxes, let's face it, brad. >> can i say something about that? the votes at that point had been counted three times. i think they had been counted, recounted, and hand recounted. think about how blatantly ludicrous, past even what donald trump could believe, that one woman had stolen 56,000 votes on a usb and no one had figured it out. it's not a delusion. that's passed delusion. after they became the target of this harassment campaign for the most powerful man on earth, ruby freeman and shaye moss had their lives destroyed. as moss told the january six committee last summer. >> this turned my life upside down. i no longer give out my business card. i don't transfer calls. i don't want anyo

freeman. stephen glyphgard lee stated to floyd ms. freeman was scared to talk to lee because he was a white man. mr. floyd then tried to call ruby freeman, he tried several times but he was unsuccessful, so in turn recruited someone else, a black publicist for the trump supporting nazi apologist and artist kanye west, who now goes by the name yea. it should be said that donald trump has repeatedly used yea as a supportive plaque fice to bolster his own extreme incendiary politics. and yea has drifted further and further to the right openly embracing nazism, anti-black rhetoric or donald trump. he showed up at ruby freeman's door saying she was sent by a high profile individual and urging ms. freeman to confess to trump's baseless allegations of voter fraud or people would come to ms. freeman's home in 48 hours and put her in jail. but ruby freeman was not having it. she called the police once again and an officer took freeman and kuti to a police precinct where body footage seemed to capture m

freeman. joined little old moi to talk about his new documentary on the first black tank battalion to fight in world war ii. that interview is straight ahead. >>> but we begin "the reidout" tonight with the clearest picture yet of the expansive plot trump and his allies unleashed after he lost the 2020 election. the january 6th committee and special counsel jack smith exposed the what as well as the who in the plot. but it was the georgia case led by fulton county d.a. fani willis that really shows us the full scope of characters in the trump gang. the indictment is full of bizarre cameos like texas attorney general ken paxton who is referenced on page 30, when prosecutors note how donald trump attempted to get the georgia attorney general on board with paxton's doomed lawsuit on behalf of texas to contest the election results in four other key states. paxton is facing a lot of issues right now, namely impeachment, and he's only one, just one sliver of trump's latest ensemble cast. at the cent

it comes chapter two which might be the harassment of ruby freeman and shaye moss. so we call out with the harassment chapter, it gives the over and then, you present the evidence about that. so the jury at the end of it hears each of these chapters and it's a way to help them understand the story and how it all comes together as opposed to when you're moving chronologically as we've seen that list of overt acts, it gets to be a little bit of a mismatch. when you put it together knows chapters and i think the jury will get a comprehensive sense of all the different parts of the schemes. and at the end of the day after pick to. >> and terms of the various actors involved in those various schemes, have been making those kind of divides myself as we've been going through the various counts. okay here's the cast of characters involved in voting machine tampering. here's the cast of characters who appear to be involved in the harassment of ruby freeman. as the cast of characters that are parity involved in pressuring the state senate state the state legislator sure to th

ruby freeman and shaye moss. the election, the mother daughter duo, both atlanta election workers, found themselves at the center of one of the most persistent conspiracies spread by trump and his allies. using selectively edited video, trump and rudy giuliani claimed that freeman and moss committed voter fraud by pulling out fraudulent ballots permissive case on election night. giuliani also said freeman and moss passing around usb drives containing votes, quote, like vials of heroin or cocaine during ballot counting operations. trump had referred to the two women more than a dozen times during his call with raffensperger, falsely calling freeman a quote professional vote scammer and hustler. despite georgia election officials immediately debunking these outrageous claims the lies spread and spread and spread in conservative media like wildfire. last year, freeman and moss testified before the january sixth committee. and they shared how the ex presidents dangerous disinformation campaign nearly destroyed their

and then rudy giuliani had something to say. >> ruby freeman and shea freeman moss and one other gentlemenrted passing around us about ports saying they were vials of heroin or cocaine. it is obvious they are involves in illegal activity that day. as of a week ago, they're still walking around georgia lying. they should have been questioned already. they're places of work and homes should have been searched. >> he is accusing them of crime. the words are used to charge him with the crime. >> as they should be. words have consequences and conduct has consequences. and when you have someone who propagating a narrative that knows that it is false and they're doing in conjunction with the criminal enterprise with other people surrounded by them, all engaged in a concerted effort to overturn an election, that is problematic. you cannot go and say things in public. well, you can but if they are harming and not true, they can come back. >> you can say that rudy giuliani can legally say things like that explain how it becomes a crime. explain how it becomes a rico when it is furtherance of and in

but ruby freeman was not having it.cer took freeman and kutti to a police precinct, where body camera footage showed kutti seeming to threatening miss freeman. i cannot say what specifically will take place, kutti said to miss freeman. i just know that it will affect your freedom and the freedom of one or more of your family members. >> now trevian kutti and harrison floyd are among the 19 individuals charged in fani willis's case. this is the first time we are seeing charges for the people who allegedly directly orchestrated trump's campaign of harassment against those two black poll workers. it is the first attempt at justice for the two black women whose lives were upended by trump's racist conspiracies, his supporters racist threats and his lackeys racist pressure campaigns. today trump signal just how he plans to respond to this latest indictment. we're going to have more on that, right after the break. what is — wow! baby: daddy. sinex. breathe. ahhhhhh! he snores like an angry rhino. you've never heard an angry r

willis felt it necessary to include allegations as it relates to what happened to miss freeman.r to line change or story about what happened with respect to the counting of ballots, as well as intimidating her. i think that video is what the d.a. is basing certainly that later charge, the influence of intimidation charge on. so i anticipate that will be a key piece of evidence going forward in the trial. >> amy, one of your points in your new york times op-ed piece about this indictment being ingenious is, this indictments ability to link that moment in that police station, in georgia, with the man who was sleeping in the white house that night, donald trump. that behavior is all linked clearly linked in the pattern described in this indictment. >> that is true, lawrence, and i think it offers a nice human touch, everything that happened to miss freeman, it offers a human touch for the jury and the a to talk about it a poll worker serves the polls and a sense of duty and not to get rich quick scheme. they say a woman who is doing her job and accused of hair when or cocaine or tr

, 18,000 voters having to do with ruby freeman, that's -- she's a vote scammer. a professional vote scammer and hustler. >> sure is interesting language that donald trump and rudy giuliani use about these two black women. as a result both shaye moss and ruby freeman say they've received death threats. strangers have shown up at their doorstep in the middle of the night. even kanye west's former publicist trevian kutti ap apparently showed up to pressure them, to lie to say they rigged the election for biden. falsely, of course. but because of the previous threats against her freeman called the police in that case at the suggestion of an officer the women agreed to meet at the police station. watch this moment from police body cam footage. >> i cannot say what specifically will take place. i just know that it will disrupt your freedom and -- >> giuliani did not contest in court that he made those false and defamatory statements. that isn't because he's apologizing for them. it's because he failed to respond. to multiple subpoenas for information in the case. accor

now a jury will decide how much giuliani has to pay freeman and moss. he's said to be nearly broke, though he arrived in georgia to surrender on criminal charges in a private plane. no word tonight on who footed the bill. a spokesman for giuliani called today's ruling, david, a prime example of the weaponization of the justice system. freeman and moss said it affirms there was never any truth to any of the accusations. they said they went through a living nightmare, and that giuliani unleashed a wave of threats and hatred they never could have imagined. david? >> david: aaron katersky, thank you. >>> we turn now to the war in ukraine tonight. the kremlin seeing the biggest drone attack yet inside russia. four russian military planes destroyed. russia now retaliating, and abc's britt clennett in ukraine for us. >> reporter: tonight, ukraine unleashing its most widespread drone attacks inside russia since the war began, seen in footage posted online. this airbase in pskov, one of several military targets across at least six regions. video circulating on s

lee states to floyd that freeman was afraid to talk to lee because he was a white man.hese were overt asked in the furtherance of a conspiracy. she'll admit she tried to overturn the election or brought in fraudulent votes but won't say it's me because i'm a white man. talk about that part of the indictment. >> yeah. or probably a bit more cynical or damning reading of that is they felt by finding someone black who perhaps could relate to miss freeman in a different way would allow her to be more easily manipulated into lying or confessing things that could you know, make her be plausible or responsible for some of the wrong doing they're alleging while furthering their attempts to overturn the election. and so that's what we saw play out in the indictment as it was mentioned that you know, they did try to cozy up to miss freeman, provide her support, provide her cover, but really they were secretly working according to the indictment, with trump and his allies as part of this conspiracy. i think this part is one of the parts of the indictment that as you mentioned, mig

ruby freeman, her daughter shea moss, and rudy giuliani. giuliani says he is wrongly accused in this defamation lawsuit, and i want to share what he said last week to our colleague. >> mister mayor, do you acknowledge that you made false statements? . >> that is a lie. >> you acknowledged it, why didn't you fight it? >> i did not ignore it acknowledge it, that is a stipulation in every lawsuit not for the purposes of truth. >> you did not contest it, you had the opportunity to fight. that >> wrong. i did not because i had to move on to legal issues. let me take another question. >> okay, i am clearly confused. last week, last month, giuliani conceded that he did in fact make false statements, so what happened with today's ruling, joyce? >> right, so, what you heard from giuliani and that clique was a bunch of mumbo jumbo that didn't mean anything and vaughn hillyard was right, judge howell and the district of columbia confirmed that, today. what she said was, rudy giuliani failed to comply with his discovery obligations, to turn over inform

freeman and ms.ng in the wake of this ruling in their favor. >> they feel good about it. they feel like this has been vindication, not all vindication, i would say, certainly partial vindication. there's still more work to be done. the trial phase, as you mentioned, is coming up next. and unfortunately, you can't win your sense of security at trial, so it won't be a full vindication in that sense. and restoring them to where they should be, but this was a good development, and they're very happy about what the judge did yesterday. >> and i can tell you that over here, we consider them to be national heroes because anyone who helps folks vote, other than librarians, those are my favorite people. let's remind everyone what was said about these two wonderful women by rudy giuliani in which he defamed them. >> earlier in the day, ruby freeman and shaye moss and one of the gentleman quite obviously surreptitiously started passing around usb ports as if they're vials of heroin or cocaine. >> what was your

he smeared ruby freeman. he smeared others. he accused them of all kinds of misconduct.n led to violence and lead to threats on their lives, lead to threats on the lives of people like gabriel sterling. remember, he was a republican election official. so, all of that has to come in some place. and i think fani willis has done a good job of showing this is not some septic, clean blot. this was backed up by thugs, dogs that trump insisted on elevating, and spurring into action. elevating, and spurring into action that is part of the story. donald trump cannot escape responsibility because all these for people who are working towards a common outcome. and that common outcome was still -- >> you know, i don't make a shameless plug -- but if people don't want to revoke these things -- they are important because when you listen to them or when you read them, both indictments, jack smith and fani willis, you cannot escape the fact that donald trump could not have escaped the reality of what he did. he knew that every audit failed. he knew that every recount failed. he knew that

freeman agreed to talk to him at a police precinct.ng to court documents, he allegedly pressured freeman. offering her protection if she would confess to engaging in election fraud. even though freeman had done nothing wrong. >> i cannot say what specifically will come -- i just know that it will -- >> one of the most specific and powerful allegations in the indictment is this claim that various defendants tried to intimidate and harass these election workers and tried to get them then to change their story as passirt of a conduct. that's a piece that the jury can say, okay, that's a crime. >> reporter: freeman and moss later testified in front of the january 6th committee about vile, racist threats they received. >> this turned my life upside down. i don't want to go anywhere. i second guess everything that i do. it's affect my life in a major way. in every way. all because of lies. >> giuliani has conceded as part of a civil lawsuit that he made defamatory statements about the two election workers. nearly every other georgia election

freeman agreed to talk to coody. allegedly, coody pressured freeman. offering her protection if she would confess to engaging in election fraud, even though freeman had done nothing wrong. freeman and maas later testified about racist threats that they received. >> it turned my life upside down. i don't want to go anywhere. i second-guess everything that i do. it affects my life in a major way, every way all because of lies. >> reporter: giuliani has conceded that he made defamatory statements about the two election workers. nearly other other georgia election official who stood up to the lies received similar threats. >> the personal emails -- >> reporter: it was not just you, it was your family numbers? >> my wife and myself she got the more vile, personal stuff. >> state patrol and heightened security and bomb sniffing dogs. there was a website that form that put a picture of my house, my address and my kids names. >> you should go to jail. you are a judas. you have committed treason. >> reporter: me december 3rd hearing would bring even more chaos

giuliani made numerous claims that freeman and moss -- fraud during the election.nt that followed. >> i've lost my name, and i've lost my reputation. i've lost my sense of security all because a group of people starting with number 45 and his ally rudy giuliani decided to scapegoat me. >> it's affected my life in a major way, in every way all because of lies. >> a civil trial will now be held to determine how much giuliani will have to pay them. joining us now from atlanta is nbc's blayne alexander, carol lam is a former federal prosecutor, and hannah mull doll vin is the former january 6th house committee spokesperson. it is separate from the georgia investigation, but they're certainly intertwined. what can you tell us about this ruling against giuliani? >> well, ryan, i'll start with that overlap. it is a major overlap. what he was found liable of in this case is really kind of one of the allegations that's at the center of the georgia charges right here. of course one of the big things that is being charged is false elections, kind of spreading false informatio

in june ruby freeman and shaye moss were cleared of any fraud cases.ions board double checking what are now initially what led to the indictments. so they even double check what the now indicted coconspirators were pushing. indictments are just. at the d.a. was clear about that last night. a set of allegations that have not been proven. these people are legally presumed innocent. but being legally presumed innocent's court is the legal side. the public side, or we just saw in that general six testimony and what has been documented, which you might read about in a paper, has been beyond ugly. i want to bring in kathryn christian, former assistant district attorney in manhattan, and then as nbc analyst. welcome back. >> glad to be here. >> i mentioned the dimensions to that and the legal process in it's required fairness. but we wanted to hit this is part of our special coverage. there have been many different strands. justice can be slow and the court process will still play out with trials. but tonight, given everything, what does it mean that the dea

so that would have been around 1870 but the freeman's bureau shortly thereafter. was decommissioned and that decommissioning allowed on? allowed for the upsurge of jim crow practices and efforts to stop black people from voting all right, so that at this point these are the only two questions. happy happy to take more more questions. i will be looking at the chat. i can emphasize a few things about the book that i didn't emphasize during the talk. one thing is that i try to offer a nuanced portrayal of andrew johnson, so it's not just kind of manician fable of good verses evil and when i gave the manuscript to friends in literature and history to read people were saying, you know, some people gonna say, you're taking a risk here because we do know the johnson was an awful precedent who failed in the job that we all wish that he did at the same time. i just was struck by his efforts that i'd say who are between 1863 and 1865 to reach out to black people and to challenge slavery and he even at one point as i said suggested that he with the open to the possibility of

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freeman agreed to talk to kutti at a police precinct.ding to court documents, kutti allegedly pressured freeman. offering her protection if she would confess to engaging in election fraud, even though freeman had done nothing wrong. >> i cannot say what specifically will take place. i just know that it will disrupt your freedom. >> reporter: freeman and moss later testified in front of the january 6th committee about vile racist threats they received. >> this turned my life upside down. i don't want to go anywhere. i second-guess everything that i do. it's affected my life in a major way. in every way. all because of lies. >> reporter: giuliani has since conceded as part of a civil lawsuit that he made defamatory statements about the two election workers. nearly every other georgia election official who stood up to the lies received similar threats. >> down with kemp! down with kemp! >> we get texts. a personal cell number was doxed, personal e-mails were doxed. >> it wasn't just you, it was your family members. >> yeah, my wife mostly,

ruby freeman, her daughter shayna moss. and rudy giuliani. giuliani says that he is wrongly accused in this defamation lawsuit. and i want to share what he said last week to our colleague, vaughn hillyard. >> mister mayor, do you acknowledge that you made false statements? -- >> >> that is a total lie. why don't you go put yourself away. >> you know, why do you not for that in the court? >> that was a simulation, it's an every lawsuit. not for the purposes of truth. >> you did not pass, it yielded her nietzsche fight that. >> wrong! >> i did not because i had to move on to legal issues. now, let me take another question. >> okay, i'm clearly confused because last month giuliani conceded that he did in fact make false statements and so what happened with today's ruling, joyce? >> right, so what you heard from giuliani in that clip was a month of mumbo jumbo that didn't mean anything. and one earlier this, right judge how rule and the district of columbia confirmed that today. what she said was, rudy giuliani failed to comply with his discovery

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then comes chapter 2 which might be the harassment of ruby freeman and shea moss. and the agent gives the overview and you present the evidence about that. the jury at the end of it hears each of these chapters. so it's a way to help them understand the story and how it all comes together as opposed to going through everything chronically. it gets to be a bit of a mismash. >> in terms of the various actors involved in the various schemes, i've been making divides myself, okay, here's the cast of characters in the voting machine tampering, here's the cast appeared to be involved in the harassment of ruby freeman, here's the ones pressuring the state legislature to throw out the lawful electors and replace them with the fake electors. you can see the chapters emerging the way you're describing it. does that also give you a structure for splitting up this list of various defendants into various groups, and you charge everyone together and that becomes a way to divide defendants into different trials as well? >> yes, very much so. you'll want to group the ones that hav

this is ruby freeman, the mom. >> there is nowhere i feel safe. nowhere.know how it feels to have the president of the united states targeting you? the president of the united states is supposed to represent every american. not to target one. but he targeted me. amy: that is ruby freeman. let's get to the core of this, latosha brown. she was an election worker come as was her daughter. this is about voting. georgia is historic for the fight for the vote for each and every person stop one of the people who has been indicted in this 19-person indictment, the publicist tied to the intimidation of the women. describe what happened and why this is so significant and historic and fundamental to u.s. democracy. >>'s freeman said people came to her house and asked her to make a statement that was not true, to say there was something wrong with the election. she has been harassed. she can't go and shop. she has experienced all kinds of traumatic experiences because of being targeted. i think it is interesting that one of the consistent things that trump does, while

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request because freeman at that point was scared for her life.an tell how he tries to pressure freeman in this body cam video captured by a police officer in the room to ensure freeman's safety. >> i cannot say what specifically will take place. i just know that it will disrupt your freedom. and the freedom of one or more of your family members. you are a loose and for a party that needs to tidy up. what a loose and, that is really why i'm here. >> she was charged with two counts of harassment, and there's extra oj official jeffrey clark. the most memorable footage of him is his footage of law enforcement doing assertive is normally stand outside's boxer shorts. well it wasn't on camera, he did put it in writing, addressed to georgia state officials and ready for the acting attorney signature to nature, falsely claiming the department of justice was investigating various irregularities and the 2020 election and that it had identified concerns including the state of georgia. the conspiracy that fulton county district attorney fani willis involves

listen. >> ruby freeman and shea freeman moss and one other gentleman surreptitiously passing around there are vials of heroin or cocaine. i mean, it's obvious to anyone who is a criminal investigator or prosecutor everybody they are ingauged in illegal activity again that day. a week ago, they are still walking around georgia lying. they should have been questioned already. their places of work, their homes should have been searched. >> it turns out they were not lying. he was lying. and admitted that he did not tell the truth. what the hell has happened to rudy giuliani? >> that i cannot answer. the man has had such a remarkable downward spiral. it's really horrifying to see. he was once a respected prosecutor. now here he is lying about these women, destroying their lives, and now being held accountable. i think it's interesting what the judge did here. the judge's ruling was, i'm done with you. this is what we call a default judgment. the judge said you have violated the rules, the evidence, the procedures so badly, i'm calling it. it's over. if in a football game a referee said

freeman and ms. ross is that rudy giuliani, a person who was not only an attorney, is someone that had achieved some of the highest -- in the profession, which is what being an attorney in the southern district of new york represents, as well as being a mayor of the city of new york. and he understand what is the legal process is. he understands what it represents. he understands what's at stake, and he also had taken an oath that is a point to uphold the constitution, and every lawyer takes an oath to uphold the rule of law to practice law. and what the judge is saying in this defamation case is not just that he's now subject to penalties that's going to cost him a decent chunk of change, it's that he as an attorney who swore that he understood the process tried to manipulate it, mislead it, and do everything in his power to undermine basic rules, which accrue as rights essentially to the plaintiffs in this case to get their full fair day in court, and he did everything to undermine that, and it's e

voices -- carry sweatshirt, matt lewis, getting queen -- and my interview with you one and only morgan freeman. but first, an ironic twist everyone. before 9/11 and, of course, before becoming trump's wing man, a man by the name of rudy giuliani made his name from putting mobsters behind bars. he did so, i might add, using the very same laws that are being used against him now. two decades ago we -- he actually wrote in his book on leadership, and i'm quoting, here i dreamed up the tactic of using the federal racketeer influence and corruption's act to prosecute the mafia leadership. unquote. otherwise known as rico, for those following along. at the time, the law actually was relatively new. the giuliani, he popularized it making it the model for state and federal prosecutors for decades to come when it comes to large groups attempting a type of conspiracy, including, i might add, fani willis. the fulton county d.a. is now charging rudy giuliani with several crimes for his efforts to allegedly overturn the election, including racketeering. now, the rico laws, something that he has, well, he h

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a motley crue mergesed phoning freeman and showing up at her home., a pastor from suburban chicago, parked outside freeman's howls-- house until s dialed 911. >> i'm a pastor and working with folks trying to help rube y out. and also get some truth of what's going on. it would be nice if i could talk to her. >> i don't trust nobody. >> you don't want to talk to him? no? okay. >> yeah. i'm not interested. i have a pastor. >> okay. yes, ma'am. >> reporter: almost three weeks later, a publicist who had previously done work for r. kelly and kanye west, also showed up in georgia. freyman agreed to talk to kutti at a police precinct. according to court documents, kutzy allegedly pressured -- kutti allegedly pressured freeman. offering her protection if she would confess to engaging in election fraud. even though freeman had done nothing wrong. >> i cannot say specifically what will take place. i just know that it will -- you are a loose end for -- >> one of the most specific and powerful allegations in the indictment is this claim that various defendants t

do you see a through-line between the experiences of ruby freeman and other election workers and theatment of the jurors and judges? >> we find ourselves in an environment where it has become acceptable for some to leverage what they believe are their first amendment rights to attack others and foment violence and intimidate and threaten others in their official capacity or incapacity they have been tasked with, whether a juror or stepping into serve as a temporary poll worker. this is definitely pervasive. we are seeing it at school board meetings, with poll workers, with jurors, judges. we have to understand this is not the way of free and fair society functions. and we need to hold people accountable when they step beyond that line of the first amendment protections and step into the line yelling fire in a crowded theater. >> ruby freeman and her daughter are both no longer election officials due to their experience. how are those threats, the intimidation you laid out, impacting your ability to recruit future election workers? >> in this moment, it is difficult finding individual

the day of ruby freeman and shea freeman moss and one other gentlemen quite obviously surreptitiouslyvials of heroin or cocaine. >> what was your mom actually handing you on that video? >> a ginger mint. >> and let me do one more here. let me also play what donald trump said about ruby freeman to georgia's secretary of state brad raffensperger. >> we had at least 18,000 that's on tape. we had them counted very painstakingly, 18,000 voters having to do with ruby freeman. she's a vote scammer, a professional vote scammer and hustler. ruby freeman, that was the tape that's been shown all over the world that makes everybody look bad, you, me, and everybody else. >> so i want to deal with the legality of it. let me just say that talking about vials of cocaine and calling someone a scammer and a hustler is also racist. trump and rudy both make flagrantly racist comments about these women who were the best among us, election workers, helping their neighbors figure out how to vote. ronnell, we know from the testimony that doj officials provided that this allegation was perhaps inappropriately

liberty. ♪ >>> earlier in the day, of ruby freeman and shea freeman moss surreptitiously passing aroundwo election workers in georgia. his lies about what they were doing that day are going to cost him financially. >>> also, ahead an update on a possible timeline for the election interference case in fulton county as two of donald trump's codefendants push for their own separate trials. >>> speaking of the former president, getting a better idea of how much he tried to inflate his own wealth. we'll go through that new development out of new york and potential consequences. >>> plus, another disturbing moment on camera for senate minority leader mitch mcconnell. >>> we're also keeping an eye on wall street this morning as there is new data on a key inflation measure that is very important to the federal reserve. welcome to the fourth hour of "morning joe" just before 6:00 a.m. out west, 9:00 a.m. here on the east coast. jonathan lemire, mike barnicle and katty kay back with us. >>> idalia is a tropical storm moving up the east coast. the storm weakened overnight, but has triggered floodi

ruby freeman and shaye moss, a mother and daughter, are suing rudy giuliani.rgia election board found giuliani's statements to be false and unsubstantiated. this is california congress member adam schiff introducing video of giuliani's remarks during the hearing. >> i would like to show you some of the statements rudy giuliani made in a second hearing. a week after the video clip from state farm arena was first circulated, mr. giuliani and president trump. i want to advise viewers that these statements are completely false and also deeply disturbing. >> taped earlier in the day, ruby freeman and shaye freeman moss and one other gentleman started passing around usb ports as if they were heroin or cocaine. it is obvious to anyone who is a criminal investigator or prosecutor, they are engaged in illegal activity again that day. that is a week ago and they are still walking around georgia lying. amy: the black former state election worker also testified before the house selection committee. this is shaye moss being questioned by adam schiff. >> how did you first b

do you think ruby freeman and shaye moss will see any of the damages that they do get?dn't be the first person to try to evade accountability and responsibility by not paying, or claiming to not be able to pay. we don't know yet. we haven't seen the evidence. i think if you read the court's opinion today, you'll see that a lot of the evidence that would go to net worth and financial conditions are documents and information we've been seeking for months now. and have never been provided. so, we'll have to get that information from them. he has now been ordered to turn that over to us as part of the next phase of this case. and be able to make a determination of what may or may not be collectible. so, all of that remains to be seen. it's gonna have been quickly, and the court has set a fairly aggressive timetable out for us to go through that discovery process. and to have a trial on the damages face. phase. >> we will see what that number. is mike gottlieb, thanks for joining us tonight. >> thank you. >> ahead, there are major new questions about senate minority leader,

ruby freeman and shaye moss, they're constituents.y love right here and they were election day workers who went in to do their job, and what should have been an uneventful experience because we have people who signed up to do this work for not a lot of money, but to uphold our democracy and they were subjected to this because they simply showed up to do their job that day. that is why we introduced legislation in congress around election subversion and i was happy to hear when hearing the details from the indictment that my district attorney, also a constituent, was also focusing in on the election subversion piece and not just the piece of that you hear about so often in the news and the media. let's be clear, donald trump and his co-conspirators have done a lot of things that are illegal and our district attorney is going to get to the bottom of this. uplifting those things around the election subversion and everyday people who didn't sign up to run for office, who didn't sign up to be subjected to this were -- had to move out of th