A very good day to all of you from the Tom Brokaw News Center here in los angeles. Welcome, everyone, to alex witt reports. Developing this hour, donald trump and his 18 codefendants now have six days to surrender at the Fulton County courthouse in georgia, on racketeering and conspiracy charges. Three senior Law Enforcement officials tell nbc news, they are anticipating the former president will turn himself in at the atlanta jail, no earlier than thursday, but they stressed nothing is yet officially it. Democratic what congressman, eric swalwell, gave msnbc his assessment of what happens next for the former president. Here it is. Donald trump is going to get a Justice System that hes never been willing to afford to others. He always wants to try and convict people in the public square, without giving them any due process. Hes gonna get all the due process, hes gonna get every protection under law, and whatever happens to donald trump, it is going to come from his peers. And thats why
making front pages of newspapers around the country today. key players on the spotlight in south carolina s greenville news. the star press in monsey, indiana, focused on trump s request for a 2026 trial date in his election fraud case. and the new york times raising a key question today, can any of trump s trials beat the election clock? so, for the answer, we re gonna go to nbc s hayes brown, writer and editor for msnbc daily. and kristen did given feldman, former assistant district attorney in montgomery county, pennsylvania. now civil rights attorney in msnbc legal analyst. welcome to you both. hazel, a go-to first year. because the times lays it out, three different prosecutors, four different cities next year, in the midst of a presidential campaign. saying that it s gonna be nearly impossible to pull it off. what are you hearing about the potential timing? well, i mean, the trump legal strategy has always been to delay, delay, delay as much as possible. try and push back these
biden. that is where the focus is going to go here, who does president biden want to pick? how do they get this done? what s the reaction on capitol hill? and, of course, the president himself s reaction to this. and, so, kaitlan, stand by. i want to come back and talk about the process. you noted whether viewers like or dislike president trump s picks they had a process in place. from our veteran court watcher, joan, you have interviewed justice breyer several times. i have loved your interview with him a few months back where he bristled at the political pressure on him to resign. but clearly, clearly, a man on the court for some time but came out of democratic politics understood that pressure, understood the calendar, understood the mid-term election clock, and now this momentous decision. reporter: yes, that s right, john. i think he was under a lot of pressure last year to go. he resisted it plainly thinking he had this year. but by virtue of picking the last week in january
for now, long rows of empty desks outnumber the 40 or so staffers and also volunteers but as the election clock ticks down aides say they expect to use up every single inch of space. the battle against illegal immigration has now claimed the lives of two more border patrol agents. the agents were struck and killed by a freight train in arizona while trying to capture a group suspected of entering the country illegally. also their suv was pushed a half mile down the tracks. it happened early yesterday morning about 80 miles north of the mexican border. a review of the nation s nuclear plants found some serious problems with emergency equipment at some of them. the review was undertaken after the japanese nuclear crisis. problems included emergency pumps that were missing or did not work at all. also equipment that was stored in areas that could be vulnerable to earthquakes or floods. the nuclear watch dog agency says that all of the problems that were found have now been fixed. qu