day, that is really fascinating. thank you, have a great weekend. good evening, everyone. i m abby phillip. welcome to cnn primetime. donald trump s terms of surrender. the 45th president of the united states, he ll turn himself in to the fulton county jail at the end of next week. and in a sign of just how close we are to that stunning moment, the secret service has been at the jail for weeks working with local officials to plan the forge president s appearance. a mugshot, fingerprints, the whole nine yards. and what will this mean for the first republican debate which is on wednesday? plus classroom sul tour wars in a suburban atlanta district. a school board voted to fire a gender identity to gifted fifth graders. that teacher is with us tonight. oscar nominee bradley cooper is in the middle of a controversy about maestro. he plays leonard bernstein. some of his critics say the makeup he wears reinforces hurtful anti-semitic stereotypes. others question casting s
good evening, everyone, i am abby phillip, and welcome to cnn primetime . there are doxxing threats against the grand jurors in georgia, and a death threat against a federal judge in the wake of donald trump s for four criminal indictments. meanwhile, he s now proposed a date for one of the multiple trials that he faces. this one, jack smith s federal election subversion case. and that is april 2026. yes, that is more than two and a half years away. and it comes as he is negotiating his surrender over in georgia on charges that he and 18 codefendants orchestrated a criminal enterprise to overturn joe biden s election victory. i will talk to one republican who says the rico charge in georgia is, quote, a nuclear bomb where a bullet would have been appropriate. and we have got much more on all of this to come and plus, imagine you are on a flight to cancun, and just 27 minutes into your trip, you see this outside of your window. smoke and flames shooting out of the right en
our special coverage continues now on the arrest and arraignment of donald trump. i m wolf blitzer alongside laura coates. truly an extraordinary and unprecedented day right here in washington, d.c. i mean the former president at one point was in the custody of the very government he allegedly tried to overthrow, just a mere step or two from the center of democracy of supporters even attacked on january 6th in the culmination of the plot to overture election. onald j. trump arres arraigned for the third time in four months on four federal charges including conspiracy to defraud the united states, conspiracy to obstruct an official proceeding, conspiracy against rights. the next hearing now scheduled for august 28th when the judge intends to set a trial date. and donald trump was standing up in court today, and he actually pleaded not guilty to all four of those criminal charges. and before boarding his private plane to return to new jersey, he was railing against the indi
donald trump is back at the end of another sad day for the country that he once served as president. he was arraigned for a third time this afternoon. that courthouse is steps away from the u.s. capitol which was stormed by the violent mob of supporters of donald trump 2 1/2 years ago. it was protected by members of law enforcement including from the dc metro police department. it happened also that the former president who is now charged in connection with this attack could safely enter a plea. inside the courthouse behind me he was taken into custody. he was processed and pled not guilty to the charges against him. a federal judge then set the next court date for the 28th. that is when it is expected a trial date will be set. i am learning that he left here in a sour and dejected mood. he was really angry according to those who spoke to him. he had that processing happening here then he went to the tarmac where he was expected to take questions from reporters who were h
thank you so much for joining me tonight. cnn primetime with abby phillip starts now. hi, abby. good evening, everyone, i am abby philip. thank you for joining me. this morning, hunter biden woke up thinking he had a plea deal. but tonight, not only is he without one, but he is still under active investigation. now, the president son had expected to plead guilty to tax and gun possession charges after making a deal with the justice department. but the judge today raised some concerns about the deal, calling it unusual and tangled. in fact, at one point, she asked, is it even constitutional? now, prosecutors and biden s lawyers fought back and forth. and eventually, he changed his plea when the judge said that she could neither accept nor deny the deal in its current form. so, now, after thinking a deal could put all his legal problems in the rearview mirror ahead of his father s reelection run, no less, the politics just got a little messier. it s giving republicans a n