sheriff and fulton county district attorney fani willis in georgia. the death threats specifically said that they were being threatened because of the prosecution of donald trump. judge chutkan's limited gag order preventing donald trump from attacking the prosecutor and witnesses in the case in washington, d.c., but because the gag order has been temporarily suspended during the appeal, donald trump decided that he was free to attack jack smith yesterday. and while he was asked it, he added an obsession of his.

as fulton county judge mcfae sides with the d.a.this harrison floyd will have to go back to jail to await trial. meanwhile his alleged coconspirators here have remained markedly defiant. he talks openly on social media about the headline making experience and suggesting she would be trump's next press secretary. and then there's mr. stephen cliff guard lee. you can see him here in police body cam footage after ruby freeman called the police on him in december 22. mr. lee who calls himself america's chaplain saying, quote, i'm not going to plead out to a lie. i'm not going to cooperate with evil. this is the lord's battle, and we've got to fight it. we're going to have more on the upcoming and ongoing battles down in fulton county as the attorney for yet another codefendant issued another big mea culpa in court today. former fulton county assistant d.a. melissa redman joins us next. istant d.a. melissa redman joins us next goli, taste your goals. nice footwork. man, you're lucky, watching live sports never used to be this easy. now y

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but they no longer want fulton county to run their elections.ive-leaning suburbs declared they don't trust fulton county, so they want to run their elections themselves as individual towns. they want to run them the way they did in the horse and buggy days. these towns want fulton county to take their fancy newfangled voting machines and put them where the sun doesn't shine. these towns are saying they will hand count all their ballots, thank you very much, like a nap because and mypillow. and it will be so much cheaper. how much can a custom run an election and hand count thousands of ballots? this plan is in part the brain child of one of georgia's fake republican electors, one of the folks who submitted forged documents claiming that trump had won the state of georgia in 2020. one of the people who is now under investigation by fulton county prosecutors. and you will be shocked to learn that earlier this month when they tried this new old fangled holes and bucky system in one of these towns, voters ended up having less the polling places that

and i think that the fulton county d.a.king a very cautious methodical approach, and she's attacking these cases. and i think this is just the latest example of that. >> so, what will this be adding to the witnesses, defendants now? is this going to be an issue, rebecca, everyone that this is seeing this as a warning shot for them? >> i hope so. i think the answer to what do we do when donald trump makes a similar statement, it is more difficult legally because he can say, under different circumstances, i'm running for office. that is different practically. he's got a security detail. but you lock him up in atlanta jail, or in a d.c. jail, the logistical challenges are huge. that said, judges do have home potential that comes to mind. there are ways you can penalize even someone running for president but it raises difficult issues which were not raised by another codefendant here, saying things in any difficult criminal case, he would be in trouble for it. i think one thing that sometimes is not clear here, i've been involv

>>> plus, fulton county d.a. fani willis makes a stunning allegation, telling the court interviews with some of her key witnesses were intentionally leaked by the defense. the goal, she says, intimidation, harassment and threats. now she's calling on judge scott mcafee to step in. >>> we have been watching the overwhelming show of support for israel on the national mall in washington, one speaker telling the crowd that the purpose is to show the world that jewish people, quote, have the right to live. >>> it is a very busy day. but we begin on capitol hill, where tensions within the republican party intensified and are now boiling over with just three days and ten hours left to avert a government shutdown. republican tim burchett, who voted to remove kevin mccarthy as speaker, is accusing mccarthy of giving him a deliberate push while he was giving an interview. >> kevin mccarthy elbowed me in the kidneys as he walked by and it kind of caught me off guard. >> you felt it was on purpose and not an accident? >> abs

appellate court, and looking to see what's happening in fulton county? and i know there may not be open communications going on physically are publicly, but people are paying attention if you are on these benches to what is going on with donald trump's cases, right? >> yeah. and when you are on the release, in that one but four felony cases, two federal, two state, for goodness sakes, donald trump's being prosecuted up and down the eastern seaboard. i think it would be irresponsible for one jurisdiction to decline to pay attention to the potentially witness threatening conduct by the same pretrial defendant in another jurisdiction, and we have seen some cross pollination between and among the judges. so, i can only wonder if, at some point, donald trump's luck will run out. and the judges will say enough. we're going to impose the sky quarter. struggling to keep them in place, andext question becomes how seriously do we deal with a violation of these gag orders? do we consider the sanction of up to, including, revoking him on release, and putting him in

plus, fulton county d.a. fani willis sets a date for donald trump's georgia election, interference trial. a few months before election day. what that means for him legally, and politically. and, why it is so hard for judges to rein in trump's dangerous trial rhetoric. and, tiktok is back in the hot seat folks, after hosts sympathizing with terrorists of some of bin laden went viral. how do we get here? and, what is tiktok doing about it? i am symone sanders-townsend, and i have something to say. ♪ ♪ ♪ many of our elected leaders in congress showed us who they really are this week. and i think we should all be concerned about republicans, particularly republican men, how they have been acting. and, how republicans writ large refused to gather and. let's take it to a wild and weird week on capitol. first, a government shutdown was averted, for now on thursday. president biden signed a funding resolution to keep the government afloat, until early next year. it was less than 24 hours before the shutdown deadline.

that having been said, the fulton county d.a.s out a number of acts over the last two weeks in particular between november 1st and november 14th where harrison floyd, as you noted, has gone after a number of his co-defendants or witnesses. in particular, really attacking jenna ellis. i'm looking at one of the tweets right now two days ago saying that she was lying on dan scavino and i guess they don't teach ethics at harvard law anymore. as an aside, jenna ellis did not go to harvard law school. but, the larger point is that harrison floyd has engaged in a two-week long campaign to intimidate and fight back against people involved in this case, ranging from brad raffensperger and sterling and ellis and powell. and finally the motion ends with a litany of his tweets, aimed squarely at ruby freeman, who is the person that he victimized in the first place, leading to the charges against him and who he continues to victimize and was publicly the most offensive conduct that he engaged in, according to da fani willis' team. i look forw

to what fulton county will see in 2024. boris? >> nick valencia, thank you so much for that report. brianna? >>> the new york attorney general's office has rested its case in the civil fraud trial of donald trump and his sons, his adult sons. witness testimony included contentious moments between donald trump and the judge and a highly anticipated appearance by his daughter, ivanka trump, now it's the defense team's turn. joining us now to discuss, we have cnn legal analyst and former federal prosecutor, eliot williams. so the defense taking up their case, that is going to start on monday. what are you expecting? do you think there are any holes that they will be poking in the prosecution's case. anything you saw? vulnerabilities? >> i don't think it's holes or vulnerabilities, but there are three buckets of arguments you're likely to see from them. number one, valuing buildings is inherently subjective, and i think they'll say, who among us hasn't gotten an estimate on a home and had it be sort of fuzzy. >> but to a degree

the issue is seen as so important that fulton county d.a. fani willis herself showed up to make the state's case. and she was incredibly direct. >> the state is requesting so that there's no mistake as to what we're asking that his bond be revoked and he be remanded back into custody for violating three conditions of the bond. >> d.a. willis asked for harrison floyd to be put back in jail for making statements that could intimidate witnesses. ultimately the judge in this case denied that request and instead imposed a broader and stricter order limiting mr. floyd's speech. the judge ordered floyd to thought make any public statements concerning any codefendants or witness and to delete the social media posts where he had made those statements already. but the thing i think is important here is that jail was on the table. harrison floyd is charged with being essentially a pawn in donald trump's larger alleged plot to overturn the results of the 2020 election. and floyd's social media reach is puny compared to trump's massive bully pulpit. none

georgia, but they no longer want fulton county to run their elections.onservative leaning suburbs have declared they don't trust fulton county so they want to run their elections themselves as individual towns. they want to run them the way they did in the horse and buggy days. these towns want fulton county to take their fancy newfangled voting machines and, you know, put them where the sun doesn't shine. these towns are saying they will hand count all their ballots, thank you very much, with like an abacus and a mypillow. it will all be so much cheaper. how much could it cost to run an election and hand count thousands of ballots? this plan is in part the brain child of one of georgia's fake republican electors, one of the folks who submitted forged folks who submitted forged documents claiming that -- we urgently need 1000 new monthly donors in the next 30 days to help the children we support around the world. you can help provide food, medicine, care and protection, plus so much more that a child needs by calling right now and giving just $10 a month

and later, cc abrams has not spoken extensively about the indictments in fulton county, until now. i asked her about the strength of the case, and her own political future. >> okay, i hope you're sitting down for what i'm about to say. because you might find it a little disorienting. here goes. we are exactly one year out from election day of 2024. one year, exactly. look, i know that for the better part of this decade we've heard a lot of talk about certain elections being the most consequential of our lifetimes. but this one actually kind of feels like it is. a brand-new poll out today from the new york times shows donald trump leading president biden in five out of six swing states. it also shows biden leading trump by just one point, among young voters across the state. there's a while to go, but you still have to pay attention to these numbers, even at this point. so that's the state of the race. at least according to that one poll. and here are the stakes, according to joe biden. >> there comes a time, 16 generations, where the world changes. it changes in a very short time.

in his words, will cause threats to election workers in fulton county. and we are already having to contend with letters full of powder, some fentanyl, gunpowder. we are already having to contend with this conspiracy, the lies, the constant [inaudible] people like donald trump endlessly taking it up. he wants to scare good election workers out of their jobs, so he can put extremists in to help him steal elections. it's an american, and americans need to stop these extremists from taking further power in this country. >> how would you say, secretary griswold, that this affects their ability to do their job going forward? put the danger into perspective for us about why these workers are so important, and the threats they receive. what kind of impact does that actually have on them, and then their ability to actually do the work that our democracy needs? >> every step of american elections has oversight, of volunteer election workers. they are republicans and democrats, put together. they test voting equipment, they do signature verifications. they do the

. >>> plus fulton county district attorney fani willis responds to leaks of video statements from three of donald trump's coconspiratorter in the georgia election interference case. and also ahead we'll preview the high stakes meeting taking place today between president joe biden and chinese president xi jinping. >>> good morning, and welcome to "way too early" on this wednesday, november 15th. i'm jonathan lemire, and thanks for joining us. it is a busy day and we've got a lot to get to. a potential government shutdown in just two days is now looking a lot less likely this morning after the house passed new speaker mike johnson's unconventional stop gap funding bill yesterday largely with the help of democrats. the two-step plan was approved on a bipartisan vote of 336-95. that means 209 democrats as opposed to just 127 republicans voted in favor of it. 93 republicans and just two democrats voted against. the move essentially punts the republican spending fight until after the holidays. speaker johnson told reporters he was pleased with the outcome. >> your first big bill, sir, how do

she's a fulton county prosecutor.ters who have the say on her decisions. >> what was the reaction of the leak inside the d.a.'s office? >> in the same interview with the "washington post," fani willis said herself, she said, it was not necessarily surprising but it was disappointing, you know, the leaks she made very clear did not come from her office, and now we have defendants' attorneys saying publicly they were responsible for at least one of the leaks. but, you know, it looks lick it's something that could confound her case, that could complicate her case, and she said in court filings they could lead to intimidation of witnesses and really make it harder for more people to either flip or for the four defendants who have pleaded guilty to lesser charges to bring their information to court. >> lisa rubin, walk us through how unusual it is for an attorney to be the one who would leak these proffer videos and the argument that the attorney is making for why they thought it was a good idea? >> let's start with the qu

obviously this is all up to the fulton county judge, scott mcafee. does it seem like a reasonable time frame to you to start in august, in a trial in a case that is expansive as this one? >> well, i'm glad to be with you. i will just say, i think it's probably one of the most unreasonable requests that i've seen lately coming from the d.a.'s office in this case. there is a lot of noise around trying to have a case that's not political. i heard the d.a. say that they don't take the politics into play. that's just not reality. and to somehow try to take this case, which they have acknowledged will last some five months or more and the judge thinks maybe eight months, and to pull the republican candidate off the campaign trail or require the sit-in trial, basically rushing his case, compared to other defendants who have been sitting in jail waiting on trials in fulton county. i think it stinks of politics. i'm not saying the public doesn't have a right or an interest in seeing the case done, but i think it's unlikely. given the trial schedule that's set

fulton county has been the target of harassment and poll workers here. you remember shane ross and ruby freeman. they were targeted by far-s theorists. it's certainly a concern here in georgia and beyond. you have several states being targeted by these letters. of course kate, all this happening amid a backdrop of threats and political intimidation against election officials nationwide. kate? >> nick, thank you so much for putting that all together and following this for us. let's talk more about this. joining us right now is special -- is retired fbi super advisory special agent dan broner. good to have you back in. dan, so they have got multiple investigations federal authorities have right now. the fbi. what will they, should they, and are they, do you think, doing at this moment to track down people behind these suspicious letters? >> good morning, kate, thanks. the fbi and all these six different states, but most importantly, all 56 divisions are are aware and prepared for this incident. this is not a new incident. to the 2023 ricin case and a simil

i think the fulton county d.a. is taking a careful example of that. >> is everyone seeing this is a warning shot to them in. >> i hope so. the answer to what do we do if it's donald trump? he says, i have first amendment concerns. i'm running for office. he has a security detail. you lock him up in the d.c. or the atlanta jail, the ramally kagss are huge. you can put them under house arrest. it raises issues. not raised another co-defendant. i've been involved in lots of cases where there's a little media attention. this talk in the public about witnesses in your case is not okay. we're pushing boundaries that don't usually get pushed this far. >> who would benefit from the leaks? talking about the prosecution or the defense. who stands to gain most in the public eye? >> it goes back to the theme of showing the case in the public eye. i'm not talking. another defendant was talking. i think it shows how thorough they are being obtaining these from individuals that have submitted guilty pleas. it's another example of

he is not charged and the fulton county indictment.f the coconspirators in the d. c. federal election interference case but reported on the biden air times and unconfirmed. unconfirmed by nbc news, and the other ella, as far as i know. so chesebro is basically putting boris at the center as the connective tissue between the functionaries who are carrying out the fake elector plot, and trump is also a really interesting feature of the offer he gave the fulton county investigators. >> i guess, technically is an attorney, technically. >> technically an attorney, functioning as a coordinating council. >> when asked about who is quarterback in this, chaz percent, that was boris, which is interesting. >> that's right. >> jenna ellis also, not quite there, but i think it probably helps him pushing back on advice of counsel defense maybe? >> well, to what extent jenna ellis said those things that she said they dance give you know to trump i think still remains to be seen. however, the other thing that struck me about the conversation that jenn

one addressed to fulton county georgia election official. i want to stress this point. may see some reporting on social media this was happening to other states. he did not confirm that. we didn't confirm that. recently, something similar happened with officials in washington state. this is not a one-off, not the first time with this. this is extremely critical timing of all this. you don't have narcan everywhere in our society, he talked about health checks and making sure polling places are safe and his workers now at official offices after what happened with the five letters laced with fentanyl are being prepared and trained on how to use narcan. tammy, i'll come to you. this is really jarring in realtime to watch this happen two nights after an election in this country. >> tammy: it is, we are not unfamiliar with it. i immediately thought of the anthrax letters after september 11th. fentanyl is easier to get than anthrax. we have to be ready and prepared for unique dynamics and also postal workers who then are under threat, as well. the case with anthrax mailings an

and so, you know, we look at fulton county or we look at rikers or we look at cook county. terms of the like how do we deal with these institutions actions? an and what do we demand from them? i think we have to ask why people are so invested in the continued existence and of jails as a form of social control and as a form of racial control. because the one thing you run into when youay, why do we have jails at all is somebody says we need them. and i think we have to interrogate that because people the history that i didn't always believe, the necessity of jails, they didn't always associate jails with the capacity to prevent crime. these new ideas and new inventions and new ways of thinking about jail that we can challenge and push back against as we think about what kind of societthat we want to live in. one aspect of the book that i find interesting is, the stories of jail people resisting oppressi themselves. tell us a little bit out that history of incarcerated people and their efforts to resist and shape the conditions in the jail. right. i mean, one of the things th

>> i don't believe so because i am not fulton county election -- came to that.ess, it is really distressing, like i said earlier today, that someone would actually do this domestic terrorism at its worst. >> neil: it is coming from washington state, i understand that correctly? >> yes, came from the west coast, that is what we have been led to. from our understanding, they have an ongoing and very active investigation. >> neil: obviously, you start piecing things together, secretary, georgia no stranger to controversy with the recount after the georgia election, you yourself received a lot of death threats, as did the election officials, essentially stamped in the end after multiple recount that georgia did go to joe biden. nothing to do with any of that, but are you curious about that? >> it is distressing, you look back on tuesday, georgia, we are very quiet, efficient, well-run election for all 159 counties, very few issues at all, results were posted quickly and the winners graciously accepted their victories and the losers graciously accepted their loss and

>> also moments from now, the racketeering trial against young thug gets under way in atlanta, fulton county d.a. charging him with the same law she used to indict former president trump. >>> happening now, u.s. secretary of state soantony blinken is in israel pushing for an extended pause in fighting. overnight israel and hamas extended the pause for a seventh day. israel says it will maintain the pause as long as hamas keeps releasing ten living hostages each day. katie bow willis is at the pentagon for us. where do things secretary of state meeting with a number of officials including benjamin netanyahu. we know from a state department spokesperson that netanyahu and blinken discussed three big things, of course the need to secure the release of the remaining hostages held by hamas, need to accelerate delivery of humanitarian assistance into gaza, and the need to try to limit civilian casualties once hostilities do resume in gaza. there is a fine line that they are walking giving them the right to defense themselves but also limiting the casualties. this is the result of the punishing air

this video out of fulton county, georgia. "the washington post" and abc news obtained a series of recordings from the parts of the statements made by four of the defendants as part of their plea deals from fulton county district attorney fani willis. former pro-trump lawyer kenneth chesebro, sidney powell and jenna ellis and scott hall. remember, this case stems from efforts to overturn georgia's 2020 election results. 19 people were charged, including donald trump. revolutions today including the post report that kenneth chesebro behind the plot to put forward slates of fake electors admitted that he played a role transporting documents signed by fake electors from wisconsin to capitol hill. those bogus electors were i intended as part of a plan to throw our democracy into chaos so trump and his team could steal democracy from you. it gets worse. trump attorney general thatlis said in late december weeks after the election was called for joe bidennd a trump ran out of legal ks as, she said dan scavino was unfazed. why would

fulton county has been in the news a lot lately. of course it is one of the sites where the former president was indicted. it's drawn the ire of the former president as well as been a target of election deniers and far-right conspiracy theorists. of course all of this is happening amid a backdrop of political tension, a harassment toward election officials nationwide, not just here in georgia, and it was yesterday at a press conference that the fulton county commissioner, rob pitt, said in his personal opinion this may be a forerunner to what we should be prepared for in 2024. we can only hope that he is wrong. dana? >> absolutely hope that. thank you so much. >>> and join me on "state of the union" sunday. white house national security adviser jake sullivan is going to be joining me along with congresswoman alissa slotkin of michigan. i hope to see you at 9:00 a.m. eastern right here on cnn. thank you so much for joining "inside politics." "cnn news central" starts after a break. >>> secretary of state antony blinken says far too m

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still, though, narcan, the overdose countering treatment, was sent to facilities in fulton county just in case. anne-marie? >> all right, shanelle kaul in new york. thank you so much. >>> a bombshell announcement on capitol hill now from coal country, democrat joe manchin, is not seeking re-election, stoking the flames. on -- flames of speculation that he may enter the 2024 presidential race. here's cbs' robert costa. >>> i will not be running for re-election to the united states senate. >> reporter: the announcement from veteran democratic senator joe manchin shook up washington, raising new questions about whether democrats will be able to hold on to their narrow senate majority next year. and about whether manchin will make a late entry into the 2024 presidential race. something he has not ruled out. >> what i will be doing is traveling the country and speaking out to see if there is an interest in creating a movement to mobilize the middle and bring americans together. >> reporter: the 76-year-old centrist was facing a tough re-election fight against west virginia's republican gove

. >>> plus, a hearing this hour in the fulton county election interference case, what co-defendant harrisonyd is hoping to accomplish in court. >>> also, the stunning fall of crypto king sam bankman-fried sealed with a guilty verdict. why his legal troubles are far from over. >>> and later, we'll break down the big takeaways from the new jobs report released just a couple hours ago. bs report rele coup hleours ago this is spring semester at fairfield-suisun unified. they switched to google tools for education because there's never been a reported ransomware attack on a chromebook. now they're focused on learning knowing that their data is secure. ( ♪♪ ) right now get a free footlong at subway. like the new deli heroes. buy one footlong in the app, get one free. it's a pretty big deal. kinda like me. order in the subway app today. >>> eric trump is back in court for the second day of testimony in the family's civil fraud trial. yesterday he pushed back against questions aboutisnvolvement in his father's financial statements. he testified, quote, i pour concrete. i operate properties. i don't

. >> that is fulton county d.a. fani willis questioning a prosecution witness about the social media posts of trump codefendant harrison floyd as she seeks to revoke floyd's bond for allegedly trying footo the fimidate witnesses i and codefendants online. and along with it a possible preef pause in the fight. >>> plus, i have a very special announcement to make. i'm going to tell you all about it later in the show. but we begin tonight with your wish is my chand. i say this all the time on this show. scaring is caring. we've told you repeatedly on this show what would happen should donald trump return to the white house. but don't take it from me. take it from the legion of yes men waiting in the wings, the thousands being vet for a second trump term like mike davis, an attorney doing the most to prove exactly how he'd serve trump in his mission to exact revenge upon his perceived enemies with no one to stop him. my friend and colleague mehdi asawn recently discusseded the conservative activist lawyer who folks like

you testified before the fulton county grand jury. you were interviewed by federal prosecutors working with special counsel jack smith. do you feel that you've done all u can to hold trump accountable for his actions? - well, it's not my job to hold him accountable. my job is to say what happened and what didn't happen. and i think the people, if you read a lot of business books like i have over the years, but jim collins' book, "good to great" is, number one, you've got to face the brutal truth. and the brutal truth is 28,000 people skipped the presidential race. the brutal truth is republican congressmen got 28,000 more votes than president trump. the brutal truth is that's why he came up short. but once you know the brutal truth, then you can kind of grow from that and move forward from that. and so you could really build a campaign that could win based on the truth. and that's gonna really be something that's stable. if you don't face the brutal truth, it's always gonna hold you back. i also would say to everyone, whatever you run

. >> reporter: fulton county has been the recipient of numerous election-related threats over the last county where former president trump has been indicted, along with 18 others in connection with an alleged racketeering case. gabe sterling, a georgia elections official, says the fentanyl-laced letters are domestic terrorism. >> you can't think of every single threat, so this now raises it on our radar to something we can train for and plan for, but it's also another stressor for election officials that are under tremendous pressure already. >> reporter: the dangerous letters come as election officials around the country are under threat. how has the threat environment changed toward election workers, post the 2020 election? >> it's been fairly consistently high threat environment since the 2020 election, over three years ago now. we have seen abuse, threats, and harassment of election officials. >> reporter: so far, investigators believe the fentanyl in those envelopes is unharmful. still, norah, fulton county officials are making sure the facilities targeted have narcan, which is th

fulton county has been in the news a lot lately. familiar to our viewers because it has drawn the ire of the former president. it has been a target, if you will, for far right conspiracy theorists, election deniers and it was yesterday during a press conference that the secretary of state called on election officials and political candidates to denounce this activity. he went a step further and made this personal. five and a half years ago, raffensperger's son died from an overdose, and used the time to talk about how dangerous and deadly the substance fentanyl can be. >> some people like to call fentanyl a drug. it's poison. it will kill you very quickly, very dangerous. we lost our son five and a half years ago due to a fentanyl overdose. we know how deadly this stuff is. >> the suspicious letters come amid a back ddrop nationwide. rob pits was bold in a statement, saying we should be prepared for this to be a fore shadowing of more to come in 2024. we hope he's wrong. >> thank you very much. and secretary raffensperger will join

the fulton county d.a.'s office has refused nbc news' request for comment. trump's lead attorney in georgia said this about the reports. "if this is the nonsense line of inquiry being pursued and this is the type of bogus, ridiculous evidence that d.a. willis intends to rely upon, it is one more reason that this political travesty of a case must be dismissed." the former president, meanwhile, is taking advantage of a pause in the gag order against him in the federal election interference case. trump posted on social media yesterday that special counsel jack smith and the u.s. deputy attorney general would be institutionalized if he is re-elected president next year. the former president wrote they were suffering from trump derangement syndrome. the gag order against him in the federal election case is on hold at least until next monday. that's when an appeals court is set to hear arguments from trump's legal team on why that order should be removed. trump will play this off as he was joking, but, again, he's telling us what he would do if he were back in pow

. >> reporter: fulton county has been the recipient of numerous election-related threats over the pastre former president trump has been indict, along with 18 others in connection with an alleged racketeering case. gabe sterling, a georgia elections official says the fentanyl-laced letters are domestic terrorism. >> you can't think to every single threat, this raises it on our radar. it's something we can train for and plan for, but it's a stressor for election officials that are under tremendous pressure already. >> reporter: the dangerous letters come as election officials around the country are under threat. how has the threat environment changed towards election workers post the 2020 election? >> it's been fairly consistently high threat environments since the 2020 election over three years ago now. we've seen abuse, threats, and harassment of election officials. >> reporter: so far investigators believe the fentanyl in those envelopes is unharmful. still, norah, fulton county officials are making sure that the facilities targeted have narcan, which is the overdose countering treat

questions over who leaked videos over prosecutor's interviews with some of the codefendants in the fulton county, georgia, election interference case, they have been answered. in a zoom hearing yesterday, jonathan miller, an attorney for former coffee county elections director, misty hampton, admitted that he gave the videos to at least one media outlet because he thought they helped his client and that the public had the right to see them. >> judge, in -- in being transparent with the court and to make sure that nobody else gets blamed for what happened and so that i can go to sleep well tonight, judge, i -- i did release those videos to one outlet. and in all candor in the court, i need the court to know that. >> so the judge in the case has indicated that he will issue a protective order requested by the d.a.'s office to prevent the release of the materials deemed sensitive. meanwhile harrison floyd may become the first codefendant to have his bond revoked. floyd, a former leader of black voices for trump, is accused of harassing ruby freeman, who you'll recall was one of the fulton county el

sheriff, and a separate voice mail message for fulton county district attorney fani willis. as soon as he hung up that phone, he was on his way to eventually being arrested and charged with a federal crime of transmitting interstate threats. and when i read you the voice messages that he left in a moment, you can reasonably conclude that he is likely going to federal prison for those two phone calls. if arthur a hans in the second faces a judge in the sentencing hearing, the defendant or his lawyer will definitely tell the judge that he had no intention of carrying out his threats. and that won't be enough to save him from a prison sentence. but it will probably, and this is just a guess, it will probably be true. more than 99% of death threats are delivered by people who have no intention of carrying them out. i don't want to minimize death threats in any way, because the threats themselves are serious crimes. but no one i know is more relaxed about death threats than i am. the only person i ever knew who was more relaxed about death threats than i am's my father, who gave

remember, right now, in fulton county, there is a r.i.c.o.ions that has been going on for over a year. it took jury selection months and months. so, that extension means if the trial does start in august, we're talking about extensive jury selection, juror questionnaires because of the high-profile case, preach all motions and then the trial will start. so it is realistic for a complex conspiracy, multi dependent cave, that it will extend beyond six months. it starts in august, it will go into 2025, assuming that it starts. >> let's talk about judge cannon. by denying a request from the special counsel's office to schedule a routine hearing date in the mar-a-lago case until march, is she slow walking this case? >> i think she probably is. if you compare her with judge chutkan on the federal election interference case, who is just like, bam. she was like at the motion, in respond at this time, she comes up with her decisions very quickly. she sets deadlines, moves, moves, moves. for a trial lawyer, that's the kind of judge you want. unless of

we'll play that next, and later, congressman adam shift joins me on buccaneers out of fulton county, georgia. i'll ask him about the use of controversial interviews with two codefendants out tonight. we're back after a quick break. n do that now. oh, that fast? remember that colonial penn ad? i called and i got information. they sent the simple form i need to apply. all i do is fill it out and send it back. well, that sounds too easy! (man) give a little information, check a few boxes, sign my name, done. they don't ask about your health? (man) no health questions. -physical exam? -don't need one. it's colonial penn guaranteed acceptance whole life insurance. if you're between the ages of 50 and 85, your acceptance is guaranteed in most states, even if you're not in the best health. options start at $9.95 a month, 35 cents a day. once insured, your rate will never increase. a lifetime rate lock guarantees it. keep in mind, this is lifetime protection. as long as you pay your premiums, it's yours to keep. call for more information and the simple form you need to apply today. there's n