happening now, breaking news, donald trump lawyers just negotiated a $200,000 bond for the former president just ahead of his expected criminal arrest this week in the georgia election interference case. we are following all the new legal maneuvers by trump and his codefendants. also tonight, trumps republican primary rivals are preparing to debate without him. we are setting the stage for the first gop face-off on wednesday and how it will be safe by trump s confirmed the snub of the event. we are live on maui this hour for president biden s tour of the fire ravaged island amid the ongoing search too hundreds of missing people and questions about the administration s emergency response. we want to welcome our viewers here in the united states and around the world. i am well floats are here in the situation room. these are live pictures of the fulton county courthouse in atlanta, georgia, where donald trump s $200,000 bond agreement was hammered out just a short while ago
the former president s efforts to overturn the state s 2020 election, arrested in georgia today. his attorney will join us live. as we are learning new details about rudy giuliani s legal trouble as head of his arrest. plus, breaking news, a trump employee at mar-a-lago is changing his story about erasing videos now that his attorney is no longer being paid for by trump s allies, according to a new court document. now the special counsel is investigating. and 100 strikes in 24 hours. russia dramatically escalating its attacks as ukraine fires back, hitting a building not far from moscow. let s go outfront. good evening, i m brianna keilar in for erin burnett. and outfront tonight, we have breaking news. turning on trump. federal prosecutors claiming tonight that a trump worker at mar-a-lago initially lied to prosecutors about trump s efforts to erase videos at mar-a-lago. then he got a new attorney, one who wasn t being paid for by trump allies. he changed his tes
and that $10,000 each on the counts of criminal solicitation, conspiracy, filing false documents and false statements. his attorney signing off on an agreement that includes this warning to their client, quote, the defendant should perform no act to intimidate any person known to him or her to be a codefendant or witness in this case or to otherwise obstruct the administration of justice. the agreement goes on to warn that includes social media and it comes as sources are telling cnn that employees with the fulton county sheriff s office are now being threatened over the role that they will play with the former presidents surrendered this week. we re going to go deep into all of that tonight, plus, a southern california clothing store owner hangs a rainbow pride flag outside of her business and his shot to death. we have the latest on developments in that investigation, and the angry reaction to state soccer chief giving an unwanted kiss on the lips to a women s world cup soc
happening now, the first of 19 defendants in the 2020 georgia fraud case has been booked and released from jail, and in the next 48 hours, the former president is going to do the same after a agreeing to a $200,000 bond, and the restrictions that president donald trump is facing. new threat, the fulton county sheriff s department and several employees threatened for doing their job as donald trump prepares to surrender on thursday. one day until the first republican debate, and which candidate is planning to make the biggest splash? who is planning to take the biggest swipe at donald trump or someone else? we have brand-new reporting and snacks. i m john berman with kate bolduan and sara sidner. this is cnn news central. right behind me there a live look at fulton county jail in georgia where the first of 19 defendants has been released after being booked into jail. within the next 48 hour, former president donald trump is going to go through the same process. it is goi
justice correspondent evan perez, cnn special correspondent jamie jungle and cnn legal analyst, elliott williams. evan, i want to start with you so, the days went to be thursday. do you know anything more about what that s going to look like what the plan is for him? it s not going to look like any of the others and that s kind of a strange thing to say. the former, president this is his fourth time being arrested and processed as part of an indictment part of answering chain charges. in this case, the sheriff s office in atlanta says they re going to treat him like any other defendant. he s got a lot of different when he turned himself in in new york and certainly in the federal system that then within a mugshot. and this, case they are going to take a mugshot and fingerprints, they re going to do all the things we normally. do that s a choice, they don t necessarily have to do. it right, they ve chosen to do it like they ve done others. and, importantly, he s going to b