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Politically Georgia: What is - and isn’t - in the Fulton County grand jury report

Lawyers from Fulton County D.A. office and layers representing news organizations listen to Fulton County Superior Court Judge Robert McBurney during a hearing about a petition submitted by news organizations during a Jan. 24, 2023, hearing over whether to release the final report of a special grand jury.Miguel Martinez / miguel.martinezjimenez@ajc.com

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Lawyers from Fulton County D.A. office and layers representing news organizations listen to Fulton County Superior Court Judge Robert McBurney during a hearing about a petition submitted by news organizations during a Jan. 24, 2023, hearing over whether to release the final report of a special grand jury.Miguel Martinez / miguel.martinezjimenez@ajc.com
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Feb 17, 2023

In this special podcast crossover edition, Politically Georgia host Patricia Murphy joins Breakdown hosts Tamar Hallerman and Bill Rankin to discuss the Fulton County special grand jury report into whether Donald Trump and his allies broke laws while trying to overturn the 2020 election.

The group will explain what we now know and what we have yet to learn from the nearly eight-month investigation. Plus, a look at who might be exposed after this grand jury investigation and what charges the could be facing.

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About the Authors

Patricia Murphy is the AJC's senior political columnist. She was previously a nationally syndicated columnist for CQ Roll Call, national political reporter for the Daily Beast and Politics Daily, and wrote for The Washington Post and Garden & Gun. She graduated from Vanderbilt and holds a master’s degree in journalism from Columbia University.

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Tamar Hallerman is an award-winning senior reporter for The Atlanta Journal-Constitution. She covers the Fulton County election interference case and co-hosts the Breakdown podcast.

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Bill Rankin has been an AJC reporter for more than 30 years. His father, Jim Rankin, worked as an editor for the newspaper for 26 years, retiring in 1986. Bill has primarily covered the state’s court system, doing all he can do to keep the scales of justice on an even keel. Since 2015, he has been the host of the newspaper’s Breakdown podcast.

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