nikole hannah-jones, and more, who will talk about their books and why it matters that people are able to read them. the first two episodes drop this coming thursday. the 11th hour with stephanie ruhle begins right now. tonight, a historic week of legal woes for the former president. started off with a fourth indictment, what comes next is donald trump is expecting to turn himself into georgia authorities next week. trump s decision to skip the first republican debate, instead to upstage the big night. then, the devastation and destruction left by the wildfires in maui, what it is like on the ground for the people there needing most right now as the 11th hour gets underway on this friday night. good evening, i m alicia menendez in for stephanie ruhle.
bait as far as the president? there are two kinds. the former president could turn himself in to the georgia authorities. he is under criminal indictment with georgia and time it to coincide with the debate. you would get a split-screen situation. you and me and everybody else would try to be figuring out what s going on at the same time. the other thing as has been suggested, he might go on twitter and to something with one of their hosts, which is a tricky and risky idea. if you remember, president trump launched his presidential election campaign with elon musk on twitter and there was a 20-minute delay. there was a technical disaster and a hoet of people dropped out. and a lot of people no longer use twitter. he s got a lot of choices. it s a question of when, where, and if he s goepg to do it. twitter is now referred to as
all while he s running for the second term. so, what should the gop do, if their front runner has been now indicted four times over? we will talk to new hampshire governor, chris sununu, one of the former president s most vocal critics in the republican party. and it was one of the most defining images of the civil rights movement, a 15 year old elizabeth école, or one of the little rock nine, making her way through an angry mob as they integrated in the whites only high school. now, 66 years later, there is a new battle over black history in the state of arkansas. we ll talk to little rock school board member tonight about all of that. let s begin now with trump, and the world scrambling with just ten days to surrender to the georgia authorities. here with me now, cnn special correspondent, jamie gangel, former fbi deputy director, andrew mccabe. former federal prosecutor, elliott williams. former trump attorney, tim parlatore. tim, i want to start with you. you have the special insi
martha: breaking news. moments ago, a proposed trial date has now been announced for former president trump in georgia. the fulton district attorney proposing march 4, 2024, that is smack in the middle of primaries and super tuesday, around there as well. that is coming from reuters. the gop frontrunner was indicted with 18 others monday night. he has until august 25 to voluntarily surrender to georgia authorities for arraignment and processing in that particular case. tough to keep track of all of these. that one is she s pushing for march 4. we ll see what happens. so we have a lot of new numbers to chew over this afternoon in the fox power rankings showing us the republican candidates stack up one week before the first debate here on fox. here s a closer look. former president trump, the clear frontrunner. no big surprise there. he s been ahead all along. so in numbers 2 and 3, down
welcome back to cnn newsroom live from atlanta. i want at a break you up to date on our top story this hour. donald trump and 18 others have been indicted in georgia s 2020 election interference case. the former press faces 13 criminal counts and racketeering and acting like a criminal enterprise to allegedly try to change the state s election results. fulton county district attorney fanny willis said that they will try all 19 defendants together and they must surrender to georgia authorities by august 25th. this is what she had to say about a trial date. what is the timetable for the trial? as you know, in this jurisdiction trials are set by the judges. and to it will be the judge that sets the date of the trial. this office will be submitting