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
Plot to overturn the 2020 election results. Military mantas, a republican United States senator from alabama holding our National Security hostage over abortion rights. What it will take and this a month stalemate on Military Promotion to hand. All of that and more is coming up. And good Sunday Morning to you all. I am katie phang. We begin with Breaking News on hurricane hilary. National Weather Service forecasters have downgraded hillary to a category one hurricane with sustained winds around 85 miles per hour. Overnight, california governor, gavin newsom, declared a State Of Emergency for most of the southern portion of the state ahead of hillarys expected landfall later today. Officials warn catastrophic and lifethreatening flooding is likely. According to nbcs weather unit, up to ten inches of rain is expected in just one day. The santa rosa mountains, east to san diego. Nbc News Correspondent, joining me now live from san diego In California. Juan, when can we expect the storm to
Happening now, Breaking News, cnn. Well, you find a central witness in the classified docs Documents Case. Now, speaking publicly for the first time, standby for details on what he knows as he urges voters out there to learn the truth about his former boss also tonight, a dire warning from the fbi director that the Terrorism Threat against the United States is that a whole new level . After the october 7 attack on israel and the war in gaza standby for more on alarming new testimony by the nations top intelligence officials. And the princess of wales now says shes responsible for editing a family photo that was supposed to ease speculation about her health after up nominal surgery instead, the image and the controversy are now raising even more questions about whats going on with the british royal. Welcome to our viewers here in the United States and around the world im wolf blitzer. Youre in the Situation Room the skis. Cnn Breaking News because thats good right to the Breaking News,
Skis, cnn Breaking News, because thats good right to the Breaking News, cnn has exclusive new interview with a key witness in the Trump Classified documents case, known only as trump employee five, at least until now . Cnns kaitlan, polands as a west palm beach, florida near maralago, kaitlan. Who is this witness . And why is he speaking out now well, if this is brian butler, brian butler worked for donald trump for 20 years at the Maralago Club at one point, running the car service for all of the gases thats coming in and out of the club. He eventually left that job in fall of 2022, but that was not before he had been privy to some major conversations and moments in this classified documents investigation. And now he is someone who has spoken to prosecutors multiple times and clearly is a key witness. For the indictment. One of those moments he recalls, wolf is June 3 Of 2022 when he was working at the club and the bodyman of donald trump, walt nauta, asked him oddly in his estimation
Retrieve clearly relate to that time period, right around the election. All those materials could be relevant. Its fairly typical for prosecutors to obtain social media from the platforms like twitter, like facebook and others. I think the only reason this is getting so much attention is that they resisted in this case, and it had to go to the Appeals Court to get timely compliance. But clearly the evidence here that is important to jack smith in the investigators. So im sure well see pieces of that during the trial. Thats right. Twitter, elon musk, resisted, and the company was fined 350,000 bucks for delaying the execution of that Search Warrant. Were also still learning more on the previously secret memo laying out a plan and a roadmap for the fake electors scheme that was to overturn the 2020 election. Theres a lot in this memo, and i think with the memo really does here is contextualize all the events we have been getting, from the january six subcommittee, and from this indictmen