harry littman, that's one version of it. the indictment version of it is that he tried to intrude on a process of vote counting that does not allow anyone to enter that space and he had to be barred from entering, prevented from entering into the space where the audit was being conducted. the indictment says. and so when you are claiming you're just doing your job as the white house chief of staff, and you're doing something in georgia, in a state where they're auditing a vote, that no one in the history of presidential staff has ever done, how does that claim stand up in federal court, that you were just doing your job? >> less well than a lot of other things that he is going to try to say. it goes to the point of some possibility of possibly dividing the charges against him. but look, contrast this with trump and claims that have already been rejected, where he has tried to argue the same thing, in effect you can remove, if you are within, if you're acting under the cover of your office, and judges have said i don't think

but this is the first time that political speech -- >> reporter: that defense falls short, says harry littman. >> this will not fly, given the fact as alleged in the indictment. >> reporter: jack smith has yet to charge or even name the six co-conspirators listed in the indictment. >> he is charging trump and trump alone when he could have charged many more. >> reporter: clues in the indictment suggest they could be the potential co-conspirators. >> this may be just a little push toward any of the six to say okay, i didn't name you, here's your chance . come on down. you can cooperate with me. >> reporter: some legal analysts say the narrow indictment means the trial could happen quickly, possibly wrapping up by next spring. >> several of the defendants were due in court in washington dc tomorrow, as it happens, that is where mr. trump is set to appear at the same time. we can tell you those cases have been pushed to a later date. >>> pg&e is cutting a tree trimming program that is aimed at reducing wildfire risk. the power company says they have more effective ways of accomplishing their goa

. >> let me bring in now harry littman, former prosecutor and attorney general. great to see you. help us understand the significance, the gravity really, of the prosecutors having texts and emails directly connecting members of donald trump's legal team to the early january 2021 voting system breach in coffee county, georgia. >> it's big. we've known about the breach but had no idea that it could have been overseen or even the moving forces would have been so high up in the trump campaign. giuliani is about as high as you go. and it's a crime -- well, first of all, it's crimes -- many crimes when you have this sort of violation of computers, both new fangled computer laws and old fashioned trespass laws and it falls under the category what were they thinking? it's so plainly a violation. it's so plainly something that a campaign can't get involved in. and we might have thought before then it had been on the ground, people who didn't know one from the other, but giuliani, powell, that really puts it up very high. and the third point is, nothing like it is in jack smith's indictmen