Correspondent bryan llenas is at the Fulton County courthouse in atlanta, tonight, with the latest. Good evening, bryan. Bret, good evening. The Fulton County sheriff says he intends to really treat former President Donald Trump just like any other criminal defendant and that includes a mugshot, unless he is told otherwise. Mr. Trump must turn himself in by next friday august 25th at noon. I make decisions in this office based on the facts and the law. The law is completely nonpartisan. Fulton County District attorney fani willis, a democrat defending her decision to prosecute former President Donald Trump and 18 others after they were indicted by a grand jury late monday night. It is now the duty of my office to prove these charges. Trump is facing 13 criminal counts, including violating georgias antiracketeering or ricco law. If convicted, the law carries a penalty of a minimum of five years in prison, a 25,000s fine, or both. Lawyers say georgias ricco law is unusually broad and in
Pair of legal bombshells here in washington today that could have huge ramifications for the 2024 election. Last hour, attorney general Merrick Garland announced a federal prosecutor who is raiding hunter biden has been Special Counsel, at his question. David weiss requested the status change. Garland did grant that. This comes just a few hour after trumps lawyers and Special Counsel prosecutors appeared for the first hearing in the election interference indictment. A key ruling could come down at any moment. Were on top of this. Lets star with the hunter biden news. Kara, tell us about this special appointment. Merrick garland announced this a little less than an hour ago, that david weiss, overseeing the investigation into hunter biden, requested Special Counsel on tuesday. Garland said he agreed to grant that. What this Special Counsel status means is david weiss, the u. S. Attorney for delaware, will have authority to investigate this case anywhere in the u. S. Thats been an issue,
comment on this scandal. now, the first tactic, it s no big deal. this whistleblower s saying that the irs wanted actually tougher charges for hunter biden. it s not unusual for investigators and prosecutors to have disagreements before they, you know, as you go through these cases. how many times do they have disagreements along the way? all the time. all the time. yeah. all the time. this is part of the process. this is the way that it works. and it s what we want. laura: this is what we want. well, that s the only honest thing said in that exchange. that of course refuses to acknowledge the most incredible claim of all that joe was in the room where it happened when hunter was demanding money for his family from a chinese businessman, all ccp a provshgsd of course. here s how they covered that. the we have not verified it. it s based on a what s app, we don t know the verification on that, we don t know if huntr was exaggerating talking to someone if it
The park a small victory. nat. Banging fence Milwaukee County deputies pound rods around sherman park to hang the new fence. Replacing the one taken down by county employees earlier in the day. By order of the sheriff david clark closing time would remain 6 pm. M. Its definitely provacative. And i think it will be a negative sight to see residents arrested for trying to reclaim a park in their neighborhood. As word of Court Proceedings spead around a s than 30 kids played around the jungle gym. Then came word from the sheriff through a surrogate. deputy 16;57;26but you guys can stay in here and enjoy it for another half hour he would like everybody out by 7. So whats going to happen at 7 if people dont leave . Were going to ask you to leave . group member now i want to ask you a question. Are you guys prepared at the behest of the sheriff himself to come in here and personally, physically remove small children out of the park . Park . Do you think that people here today were prepared t
A retired plumber helped reroute a line to the tank. A department of Health Inspector is supposed to come check those repairs to make sure theyre up to state code meadows says he never called the health department. Whites attorney, kelsey bulger, told him not complying with state regulations is a class one misdemeanor. Meadows said he was unaware. The man who pumped the tank said there were no screws on the lid when he got there. An investigator said one screw was on the lid when the search for noah first began and her team used a metal detector to look for the other screws but none were found. Meadows said he of his own grandchildren. The two used to play basketball together. He says noah liked to climb and explore. About 12 witnesses have you learned anything new about what investigators found when that initial missing child report came in . Investigators from the Pulaski County the fbi said cigarette smoke poured out of the home when they first arrived. Some investigators had to wea