with fired fox tv host tucker carlson. good day, everyone. i m andrea mitchell in washington. the countdown is on. donald trump, after announcing on social media, he will surrender to the fulton county jail on thursday to be booked on charges including conspiracy and felony racketeering over alleged efforts to overturn georgia s 2020 election results. and there s breaking news now, this hour, in atlanta where john eastman, the legal mastermind of a plan to get vice president mike pence to stop the election count on january 6th, has it turned himself in at the jail to be booked. nbc news has confirmed another co-defendant scott hall, a bail bondsman charged in the coffee county, georgia, data breach was booked in jail with a bond set at $10,000. joining me blayne alexander in
agreements come in, a flurry posted publicly on the docket, we know that the heavy work is done, agreements have been reached, so that would ostensibly kind of expedite the process and expedite the amount of time they are there. this gives us a glimpse. what we re going to see over the coming days. we ve seen in the past hour or so two more consent bond agreements become public, one from david shaffer, the other shawn still, and also that means we re going to be watching to see if they it turn themselves in imminently along with others who have already had their it terms worked out. and in looking at the written statement that was issued by john eastman before he upon his surrender as barbara mcquade said, a very big risk, very aggressive statement, so certainly doesn t seem as though he s likely to become the first one to cave in, but we don t know.
my colleague ali vitali was there when he walked out and she asked him a number of questions. one of the things, if he believes that election was stolen. he said absolutely to her. he read from a rather lengthy statement that his attorneys had put out earlier in the day as he was going to surrender. i ll share a little bit of that with you. basically, he said, i ve come to surrender to an indictment that never should have been brought in the first place. he vows that he and his legal team will vigorously contest every count of the indictment i m named and every count in which others are named as well. just a snippet of the statement and really the posture that we re hearing from john eastman. all of that comes, andrea, as he is the second person we know that has surrendered in fulton county today. the other person was scott hall. he was a bail bondsman involved in the coffee county plot. it comes as we re seeing more content bond agreements being signed here at the courthouse,
atlanta, justice and intelligence correspondent ken dilanian, former u.s. attorney barbara mcquade and former dekalb county district attorney gwen fleming. take us through what we can expect over the next few days and what did john eastman say when he came out after having been booked? andrea, what we can expect over the next few days are days like this one. the flurry of activity at the fulton county jail with co-defendants coming in, turning themselves in, being booked and leaving the jail and also, likely a flurry of activity from here at the courthouse from their legal represent it tivgs, from their attorneys coming in and meetings with members of the d.a. s it team to negotiate the terms of surrender. we re seeing a one and two from the courthouse and the jail and that shows us what we can expect in terms of the frequency and the quickness with which people will turn themselves in. let s get to john eastman. he just left the fulton county jail within the last 20 minutes or so.
and right now on andrea mitchell reports donald trump getting ready to surrender to the fulton county jail on thursday, as the georgia judge lays down the law, ordering mr. trump not to post or repost threats, warnings or other interference with witnesses or the judicial process. today, john eastman, the alleged legal mastermind of the january 6th plot, turned himself in and was booked, as well as another trump co-defendant scott hall, a local bail bondsman linked to the voter data breach. this hour, our nbc news des moines register poll revealing the major impact the former president s claim that he won the 2020 election is having on likely iowa republican caucus goers. and the first republican debate stage is set with eight trump challengers qualifying for the fox event in milwaukee. who will seize the spotlight? mr. trump tries to counter program in pretaped interview