are going around the country and people understand. you have jen ellis and others as rachael reported saying that we are not being funded, which creates the notion of the fissure, and then you have the legal president which i mentioned, which is a large scale rico cases in this county and others usually involve some convictions. so, what we all understand why it is so significant to watch here, the speaker defended donald trump get his booking. the fact that people understand and know that there is, shall we say, a consequence and more on the way i think that it definitely chills or, as a former prosecutor giuliani would say with the rico cases, a deter crime. we do have confirmation, as you see on your screen, that the former president did have a mugshot taken inside the jail. you see the motorcade starting to move here. trump has been taken into custody and then released in fulton county georgia. this is his federal motorcade, the secret service protection, and an inordinate number
those barricades have been up for weeks in front of the courthouse, they have been preparing and trump has been all but calling for civil war and he has not gotten any of. it he is calling for massive protests and massive resistance, and it hasn t happened. but the atmospherics today, it is a relief to see that it has been so calm because it has been so deeply ugly and frightening. i was surprised when he used his social media accounts to re-post a call for protests today. somebody who said they were going to be traveling from out of state to it lanta, to fulton county today, and they gave the actual address, the street address of the jail. trump re-posted that himself, effectively calling on people to turn out and protest from him today in fulton county. which you might expect would have a big effect on his followers, particularly the way that he is attacked fani willis and his prosecutors, and the number of people who are prosecuted alongside him in this case. the turnout was, once
any point. we will have to see. we re watching this live but this is new. i m joined by my friends, alex wagner, nicole wallace. these are live shots. this is the fourth time that we have covered the arrest and booking of former president trump. it doesn t get less weird. i know that you guys have been covering this for your shows that have happened already and the shows about to happen this evening. i feel a little bit of suspense in terms of what s going to happen in part because of the presence of cameras and in part because it s the last, time as far as, we know that trump is going to be arrested and booked. and he is very aware of the media impact, the television impact of the sorts of moments. i feel like his, actions his potential remarks are unpredictable in an interesting way. i feel like this is the combination of trump as a spectacle, if trump did anything to our politics besides corrupt them
defense lawyers porn prosecutors all the time, it ll catch of the prosecutor unprepared and it will in a high profile case like this, where d.a. willis took a year or two and this investigation, look, when she indicted this, case she was ready to go. if you are not ready to go, then you shouldn t indict a case like this. and so the defense lawyer that asked for the speedy trial, they re the ones that are significant disadvantage because they re going to have to go through and god knows how much evidence in a short period of time in the trial. in terms of the serve ability and whether all of 19 defendants when the court made the same time, we see an indication for trump s new lawyer today in a filing that he does not, if canisters parole wants to be tried that fast, then trump does not want to be tried alongside him. am i right in surmising that it is all up to the judge whether
sympathizers wanted to testify. it looks like the committee hissed from you. they re gonna go through and say, oh, look cassidy hutchinson testified, here s away she said it slightly differently, when she had a prior lawyer lawyer, therefore her testimonies not to be believed. i think she was quite credible, but watch, i ve seen it happen with witnesses. this could energize donald trump. let me ask you this way, elie, on the legal side ellen what s different dome trump tonight than when he woke up this morning? two things, first of, all there s now a book, a bible. this document, 160 pages an executive summary, we re all in one fairly concise place, they should ve made about one quarter the length, but in one place you could look and say, here is the story of what donald trump did. the other thing is, if i can cheat a little, in two days will be different when we get all the documents, doj is now gonna have all the evidence. doj, for better or for worse, they re going to have f