Breakdown: The Trump Indictment
True crime investigations from The Atlanta Journal-Constitution. Veteran legal affairs journalist Bill Rankin takes you inside the courtroom to break down the story and the criminal justice system. This award-winning series investigates Georgia’s most important cases with fact-based reporting. Season 10 will focus on the historic indictment of former President Donald Trump in Fulton County, Georgia, led by District Attorney Fani Willis. Co-hosted by senior reporter Tamar Hallerman and editor Shannon McCaffrey. Learn more about our reporting at ajc.com/breakdown.
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S9 Ep. 20 Breakdown Bonus: It's all politics
AJC political reporter Greg Bluestein discusses the political impact of the Fulton County investigation of Donald Trump.
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S9 Ep. 19: The Referee
AJC columnist Bill Torpy interviews the judge tasked with keeping the proceedings on track for the special purpose grand jury investigating former President Donald Trump.
45 min
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S9 Ep. 18: Eastman's prophecy
AJC journalists Bill Rankin and Tamar Hallerman explore the possible ramifications of emails exchanged between attorney John Eastman and other Trump lawyers about how to overturn President Joe Biden’s 2020 victory.
31 min
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S9 Ep.17: What Trump knew
AJC journalists Bill Rankin and Tamar Hallerman explore some of the testimony from the January 6th Select Committee hearings and explains why it could help Fulton County prosecutors prove criminal intent.
34 min
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S9 Ep 16: The Phony Slate
AJC journalists Bill Rankin and Tamar Hallerman introduce you the people who attempted to overturn Joe Biden’s victory in the 2020. Now they’re targets of the Fulton special purpose grand jury probe.
44 min
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S9 Ep 15: It's Newt's turn
AJC journalists Bill Rankin and Tamar Hallerman discuss why former House Speaker Newt Gingrich and former national security advisor Michael Flynn are the latest to receive out-of-state material witness subpoenas.
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S9 Ep 14: Breakdown Bonus with the AJC's Bill T...
AJC journalists Bill Rankin and Tamar Hallerman explore court filings that suggest a criminal investigation of former President Donald Trump and his allies has reached a new, more sensitive stage. Plus a chat with columnists Bill Torpy and Patricia Murphy
44 min
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S9 Ep 13: Who's Rico?
AJC journalists Bill Rankin and Tamar Hallerman introduce you to the Racketeer Influenced and Corrupt Organizations Act, and how it’s been used by Fulton prosecutors in recent years
35 min
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S9 Ep 12: Breakdown Bonus: What happened in Cof...
AJC journalists Bill Rankin and Tamar Hallerman examine the data breach at the Coffee County elections office the day after the insurrection at the U.S. Capitol with AJC voting rights expert Mark Niesse.
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S9 Ep. 11: Will Trump be invited?
AJC journalists Bill Rankin and Tamar Hallerman examine the pros and cons of compelling the former president to testify before the Fulton special purpose grand jury.
37 min
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S9 Ep 10: Closing In
AJC journalists Bill Rankin and Tamar Hallerman examine how the Fulton County special purpose grand jury investigation is closing in on former President Donald Trump.
38 min
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S9 Ep 9: The Pinball Machine
AJC journalists Bill Rankin and Tamar Hallerman look at how the Fulton County DA's office is dealing with a flurry of efforts to delay or avoid testifying before the special grand jury, and whether these tactics are having any effect.
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S9 Ep 8: Trump’s new legal team
AJC journalists Bill Rankin and Tamar Hallerman introduce you to the local lawyers who will defend Trump before the Fulton grand jury and explain why prosecutors are focused on two members of Trump's inner circle.
45 min
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S9 Ep 7: Planting the seeds of truth
The AJC's Bill Rankin and Tamar Hallerman sit down with Ga. Secretary of State Brad Raffensperger and elections official Gabriel Sterling discuss the 2020 presidential election and its aftermath.
38 min
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S9 Ep 6: One for the history books
How do you indict a president? Despite criminal investigations, it’s never been done. AJC reporters Bill Rankin and Tamar Hallerman look back at 200 years of case law and how that will affect the Trump investigation
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S9, Ep 5: The out-of-state witness subpoenas
The AJC's Bill Rankin and Tamar Hallerman look at why Fulton County investigators want seeks statements from Sen. Lindsey Graham, Rudy Giuliani and more.
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S9, Ep. 4: A Guilty Mind?
AJC journalists Bill Rankin and Tamar Hallerman focus on criminal intent and that prosecutors must show that Trump and others knew what they were doing was illegal and that they meant to break Georgia law.
41 min
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S5, Ep. 12 The Tex McIver Case: Georgia Supreme...
Tex McIver’s murder conviction is overturned. Atlanta Journal-Constitution legal affairs reporter Bill Rankin uses this special episode to explain how, why, and what happens next?
35 min
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S9, Ep. 3: Is there a criminal case?
AJC journalists Bill Rankin and Tamar Hallerman talk to legal experts who discuss a number of incidents, including Trump’s Jan. 2, 2020, call to Secretary of State Brad Raffensperger; his lawyer Rudy Giuliani’s testimony before state legislative committees; and the slate of fake electors who met in secret at the state Capitol
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S2 Ep. 18: A Momentous Decision
The AJC's Bill Rankin follows up on the appeal to the Georgia Supreme Court about the murder conviction of Justin Ross Harris.
39 min
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S9, Ep. 2: A force of nature
The spotlight falls on Fulton County DA Fani Willis, who is overseeing the investigation of former President Donald Trump and his allies. Plus, we explain what a special purpose grand jury does and doesn't do.
37 min
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S9, Ep. 1: The January 2nd phone call
AJC journalists Bill Rankin and Tamar Hallerman start Season 9 by digging into former President Donald Trump's phone call to Georgia Secretary of State Brad Raffensperger and told him to "find" 11,800 votes to overturn the 2020 election results.
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S9, Ep. 0: Breakdown Season 9 - Coming June 20th
The Trump Grand Jury: Hosted by Bill Rankin and Tamar Hallerman from The Atlanta Journal-Constitution
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S08, Ep. 19: Life in prison
Bill Rankin and Asia Burns of the Atlanta Journal-Constitution look at the emotional sentencing hearing for the men convicted of killing Ahmaud Arbery.
57 min
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S04, Ep 7: Devonia Inman is a free man
Here are the improbable events that led to his release, and what Inman has to say about his experience.after 23 years in prison
43 min