travesty. reporter: former new york city mayor rudy giuliani not mincing words after his surrender. if this can happen to me, who is probably the most prolific prosecutor maybe in american history, and the most effective mayor for sure, it can happen to you. reporter: the former federal prosecutor even taking a shot at the fulton county district attorney. fani willis will go down in american history as having conducted one of the worst attack on the american constitution ever when this case is dismissed. reporter: giuliani was book order 13 charges and bond was set for $150,000. trump posting on truth social shortly after he surrendered, greatest mayor in the history of new york city was just arrested in atlanta georgia because he fought for election integrity. the election was rigged and stolen. how sad for our country, maga. along with giuliani, two more of trump s key election lawyers have also turned themselves in.
support the operations across the world. if the leadership structure collapses now, that could have a significant impact in the short term on wagner s operation. and in the long term, on those countries security status. kim? thank you so much. dave mckenzie in johannesburg. this just in to cnn. a maoscow court has extended th pretrial of evan gershkovich s detainment. he is facing up to 20 years in prison on espionage charges which he and his employer deknow. u.s. considers him wrongfully de detained. he was the first detained since the cold war. as donald trump plans his surrender to fulton county authorities later today, three of his top election lawyers have surrendered in an atlanta jail. have a look. this was the elite strike force,
indictment, who is actually working with trump center nucleus, his inner circle. it s hard to know why these individuals, who did you ever hear any reasons, any rational? i think, before the committee, folks would be willing to tell you that actually believe that the election was filled with fraud. we know that from the indictment, the allegations not to be true. they were told repeatedly by election lawyers, campaign folks, that it wasn t true that there was fraud. it s hard to actually figure out the logic behind why these folks have risked legal trouble over what has clearly been lies, the big lie that is led to all this. all right, marcus, great to talk to you. thank you very much. appreciate the perspective. in the meantime, threats against grand juries and a federal judge. the dangers facing civil servants intra cases are getting more worrisome. i ll speak with a judge who lost her son in a targeted attack on her home two years ago. that s next.
was calling giuliani for his endorsement except for trump. do you think that s why giuliani was so willing to do what trump i mean, he went to ukraine and looked into all that. trump was telling people in ukraine ukrainian officials talk to rudy giuliani, instead of the attorney general. like, you work with the justice department. trump put him put him in charge of going in pushing s election lies. rudy giuliani did all of that and then some. giuliani, after all of trump s election lawyers, campaign lawyers, united states attorney general had told trump that he had lost the election, there was only one man telling him he had one, and that was rudy giuliani. and that, of course, predictably, he put rudy giuliani in charge of the election situation with when trying to turn around the race. giuliani was there with trump when they turned off the lights at the white house. the last man standing telling standing telling him that he
how is it that all of trump s election lawyers cross that line? so, certainly everybody is entitled to a criminal defense. people are even entitled to have lawyers bring their case affirmatively as these lawyers did in civil cases. but what you can t do is make false statements in court. a defendant who is charged with a crime can invoke his fifth amendment right against self-incrimination to testify and a lawyer can support that decision. but to go in and make overtly false statements, these statements that you just played from giuliani, and powell, and ellis, about hugo chavez and other things, just absolutely no evidentiary basis and the case in michigan against sidney powell, that judge held an eight-hour hearing where she went through claim by claim of the statements she made and asked her what was the basis for each and she had none. so, these are the kinds of things that lawyers are not permitted to do. they can take aggressive legal