shot. there is this is a little bit weird. but what is it? this is a live shot from the motor gate. and there should be a lot more traffic. you would think this part of atlanta, this kind of. they but they cleared the, roads you see, they ve got the overpasses blocked off as well. , and this is trump s motorcade heading from the airport to downtown atlanta, to go to the fulton county jail. while we re looking at the, shot i would like to get a little bit of expert advice here from robert james, he s the former district attorney, former dea from the county. he s not criminal defense attorney, mr., james thank you very much for being with us for this live coverage. thank you for having me. can you explain to us and forgive us who aren t lawyers and don t know this stuff. even at a basic level. but what is actually entailed by the booking process? and how the bill part of this works? i feel like i m still not totally clear on why 200,000 dollar bail means you only have to put up one
a celebrity. with 19 codefendants in the case we are starting to see a bluff called in the financial aspects of this. like among other things. this is a lot of legal fees, for a lot of people involved in this is him being tried along 18 other people including people like rudy giuliani who believe heals lots of money to his existing lawyers, who has this house on the, market in, new york you don t to be with ends for his financial status. we ve seen another trump lawyer publicly pleading for money because she s not getting any of the trump donor money that he s using to pay his own defense. trump s legal defense is being funded by trump s small dollar campaign. 30 cents to every dollar. when you say private plane. it s not a private plane in the way some rich business tycoon place to try to play. it s a drifter. plane it s a plane, a paper, with a small dollar notice in some places there scammed into
yesterday evening, he walked out of the jail and he told me i saw rudy giuliani as he pointed that he was in the slammer with 40 other individuals when the former new york city mayor walked by through the booking process. this is exactly what we expect donald trump to go through himself. we also expect that mugshot to be taken, the sheriff in fulton county is not suggested otherwise at this point. it is really the beginning of donald trump s georgia journey, it least the legal one, just today he brought on a new attorney ousting his previous attorney, drew findling, who had been working for more than a year on building what would amount to his potential defense in the case of an indictment. but today he brought on this new attorney, a dome trump has made it clear that he wants this trial to begin after the 2024 election. but, one of his codefendants, cheeseborough, kenneth chesebro filed a motion today that was approved by the judge to have his trial began on october 23rd, really showi
again, just for those of us who don t cover this type of criminal law on the regular, why is a private business, a bill bondsman involved in this for somebody like a defendant like president trump? sure so there are a couple of ways where you can get out of jail by posting, bond you could pick cash on which means that you could take $200,000 in cash, and give it to the court and they will hold it to ensure that your turn, you could put the property up, right? and then you don t return that property that s gonna be, taken or you can use a bondsman and that bondsman essentially goes and pays the $200,000 and you pay that bondsman a percentage of. it typically, anywhere between ten and 13% of the amount of the bond. and that is for the bounce, meant to put the money up as a security as it were to make sure that you return it to a criminal defendant to court. is there any reason why we should be surprised that mr. trump is using a bondsman rather than somebody s own money?
there were measures taken for extra protection. you could either have a federal facility created for him, you could have a solo scenario where he is alone and therefore not in the general population and the secret service agents to take shifts to be around him, so they become his guards. and you could have confinement. i should mention, officially, as of now, donald trump is under arrest in the state of georgia. we have confirmation that he has entered the jail and, as of right now, former president trump is in custody. he has been arrested. a landmark moment, and, as i said before for all the worst reasons. i just happen to have been with somebody earlier today who actually knows donald trump and we were talking about this very thing, the thing you are talking about about how he might feel. it s a close friend that knows him and said to me that he is a much better actor than people give him credit for. that he actually is good at portraying a kind of bravado