survey the scene and to gather. it s nearly 100 degrees and he s not going to be here for quite some time. but people still gathering here along with the world s media ahead of this historic surrender. now, the former president is expected to travel this afternoon from bedminster, new jersey here to georgia to surrender to the fulton county sheriff s office, which means he will go inside the building and be processed just like any other defendant. the district attorney is adamant that even though he is the former leader of the free world that he will be treated just like everyone else in this case. that includes fingerprints and possibly expected right now it is expected that he will have his mugshot taken. that s significant because in his federal cases and in his manhattan cases he did not have a mugshot taken. they decided they didn t need it because they re usually used if someone goes on the run to identify them. he s obviously one of the most famous people in the world and they w
your party s choice? please raise your hand if you would. [ cheers and applause ] just hold on. so just to be clear, governor christie, you were kind of late to the game there but you raised your hand? no, i m doing this. look, i m doing this, not this. whether or not you believe that the criminal charges are right or wrong, the conduct is beneath the office of president of the united states. i m joined now by two cnn political commentators, van jones. former obama official scott jennings. former special assistant to president george w. bush. good to have you both. much to discuss. i want to begin with that moment on the stage but i don t want to purely focus on that moment because to be clear you had several candidates on stage, pence, haley, christie,
so we saw supporters walking up and down this street with signs. others honking in support of the president. they have since shut this street down to the public. you only see security vehicles coming up and down here. the crowds, however, have moved to the other side of this facility. and in response to that, we saw several tactical teams of police respond to those crowds. the environment, though, has been controlled. there s been no issue there so far, but there are certainly crowds out there. look, the reality of this is that many of those attached to this case have received death threats. first, it was the fulton county district attorney who got death threats, so much so that she had to change her personal security detail. then the fulton county grand juries. they themselves were threatened with violence, and even the leadership here of the fulton county sheriff s office has seen death threats themselves and threats to their personal homes. all of that contributing to this heightene
white house chief of staff now has a $100,000 bond agreement. he will have to post a small percentage of that in cash. he s also subject to a list of specific restrictions if he wants to continue to be a free man and not be detained. among those restrictions, and we ve seen these with other defendants, he cannot discuss the case with other defendants, only can discuss it through counsel, also cannot discuss it with any witnesses, and he s also barred from trying to intimidate anyone involved in this case. now that he has his bond all settled, dana, we expect mark meadows could show up here at the fulton county sheriff s office at any time. he had actually been trying to avoid all of this. he had asked a federal judge to give him a reprieve from this deadline of tomorrow at noon to surrender because he s currently trying to get his entire fulton county case moved to federal court. he believes if he can get this moved to federal court he can get it dismissed. and he asked a federal judge
attorney here asking for an october 23rd trial date. a special request that they re putting into the court just today. because one of the defendants in this case, ken cheseboro, he had said that he wanted a speedy trial. that would have put things around november. but now the d.a. s office is coming into court and they want to move fast. quite clearly. that would be a very aggressive timeline but one that they seem to be prepared to argue would be within reason for them at least to get to trial for these 19 defendants. now, of course trial dates move, even once they re set by a judge, and there s a lot of things that would go into the questions on whether the trial would actually happen at that date if it were to be set that fast. it s a really sprawling case with 19 defendants. a lot of arguments to be made. potentially a really aggressive jury selection that would take a lot of time to get through. and so all of this remains to be seen how it would play out. but they are asking for o