Im paula reid. Welcome to cnns special coverage of the 2024 election. The first debate and the surrender of former President Trump in georgia. We are on the cusp of a historic week for the nation and a pivotal week for the 2024 race. First, the former president and the latest indictment. Donald trump faces a friday deadline at noon to turn himself in to authorities in Fulton County, georgia. The result of his fourth criminal indictment. A senior Law Enforcement official tells cnn trump is expected to turn himself in thursday at the earliest. That would be just one day after the first debate of the 2024 president ial race which will take place without trump, who is the frontrunner for the repuican nomination. Just hours ago, he made it official, he wont attend. Now, the eht candidates who will attend all trail trump by doubledigit margins, and all of them are running out of time if they hope to catch him. Let me turn now to cnn senior crime and justice reporter, katelyn polantz. Katelyn
Jake tapper and we start today with Breaking News and a cnn exclusive for the first time the man and only previously known as Employee Number five. In the Trump Federal classified documents case, is publicly going on the record about what he saw Behind The Scenes at maralago and how he ended up handling boxes of classified documents without even knowing it or having the clearance to do so trump Employee Number five is a man named brian butler he has worked at maralago for 20 years. He wasnt just any regular employee. We should note he handled the car service at trumps florida resort. Often directly making sure that donald trump and all of his belongings were moved from place to place, meaning he saw moments and movements and heard conversations that are now part of special counsel jack smiths indictment of Donald Trumps cnns Kaitlan Collins, Katelyn Polantz, our breaking the story for us and joining us now, Kaitlan Collins, it start with you, so you sat down with butler earlier today.
and i thank you. good to be back with you on this second hour of msnbc reports with jose diaz-balart. it is 1:00 eastern, 10:00 a.m. pacific. i m in today for chris jansing. what happens today in a d.c. courthouse could be one of the most important days yet for the former president. donald trump s lawyer facing off against jack smith s special counsel team about the durability of trump s presidential immunity argument. it is now in the hands of three judges, but could this case as trump s lawyer put it open pandora s box? a president has to have immunity. and the other thing is i did nothing wrong. and the two top figures in this case, special counsel jack smith and judge tanya chutkan have now both been victims of swatting. what does that mean for the safety of public officials as we head into a busy 2024? plus, the pentagon s investigation into secretary of to hide his hospitalization from even the white house as more lawmakers on capitol hill call for his resignation.
quarter appearance for the alleged pentagon leaker as new details emerge about how he got the classified documents and what might have motivated him. major payout the city of minneapolis has settled two lawsuits against the man who killed george floyd, former minneapolis police officer derek chauvin. almost $9 million to two people. we have the body camera video of what happened during those arrests. bowling is facing supply, setbacks and delivery delays after revealing manufacturing issues with their 7 37 max jets how that could affect the company s bottom line and what it s doing to their stock this morning. we are following these major developing stories and many more all coming in right here. to cnn news, central. this morning. we are waiting for the arraignment of 21 year old jack to share a he is the massachusetts air national guardsman arrested for allegedly leaking classified government documents online to share a is set to appear before a federal judge in boston toda
they seem to have figured out a way to do this with everything happening in speedos. watching the trailer for the new stormy daniels show, i learned the word, himbo. it s a noun. it s like bimbo but him. i had no idea. probably everybody knew this but me. i learned this today and find it helpful. himbos and here s some. anyway, so miss stormy daniels appears to be doing great and happy for that and happy to say it. today the reason it made sense to check in on that is because today in the new york times we finally got answers on the political financial legal moral public corruption scandal that started spiraling out from stormy daniels, i mean, depending on when you start counting, five, six, maybe as long as eight years ago. finally we have started to get close to the end. finally we have started to get answers. so first things first, her real name is stephanie clifford but changed it to stormy daniels and did that for a reason. she prefers to be called by the name she cho