in our county, so she knows what she s doing. i ve worked with fani for many years. as young attorneys we started out together at the kendall law firm. very young attorneys, we worked together as prosecutors in the solicitors office, so she has grown into this role, and she s prepared for this. and at the point that fani sought an indictment i thought that there was struggle for the former president of the united states. reporter: why d you think that? i knew she wouldn t pursue an indictment if she didn t think there wasn t something there. reporter: how do you think she endures the level of veecveitreal not just from the president who s spoken about her publicly but also his supporters. well, fani was built for this. fani was raised primarily by a single father. i ve heard her joke that his idea of daughter-daddy time was for her to go work on files and help him with his cases.
of legal challenges, he would likely appeal if he didn t succeed. whether it would make it to the supreme court, is it an issue of first impression, it s always possible? we ve seen a lot of issues around the former president make their way close to the supreme court, if not make it before the bench. but the other thing is if he wins, right? potentially the u.s. attorney could be the same district attorney he s facing now. they could waive the d.a. fani willis, it would still be a case under state law, but it would be another jury pull. that s another thing the former president is angling for. fulton county is predominantly a democratic district. they believe even if they can t get the case dismissed at the federal level, if they could get the broader jury pool, that could be more favorable for the former president or any of his codefendants. but it s a very unique situation, and it s pretty fascinating to see how the legal system works and how everybody s trying to game it out here. b
and i think most of them have had these bond agreements in place. reporter: one thing they had also is a mug shot. i should note we re waiting we do have trump s mug shot we believe. we re waiting on it to be able to post that. but he is just without the doubt of the motorcade and what you re seeing now, he is treated like most other criminal defendants in what happened in the sense of that jail. yes and no. most other criminal defendants wouldn t be out that quickly. most defendants would come in and it would take hours to process them. i think it s going to be interesting to watch what happens to harrison ford who showed up without posting a bond today. he very likely will be there at least until tomorrow morning because he will need to have a first appearance hearing. i don t know if he s out or if the district attorney did something to process him out quickly, but under normal circumstances you show up, usually you don t have a bond,
the infamous call the former president trump and the georgia secretary of state raffensperger. that appears to be what the district attorney really wants to focus on based on what cases the mic of, that gonna be the crux of her case trying to keep that in state court. it is not the only one who is try to make this argument, jeffrey clark has a hero schedule for this and others including trump and giuliani have said they will try this to. just game it out for us, let s imagine a judge on monday and the future, any other judges want this to be heard in federal court instead of on the state level, let s say the judge disagrees with them, does this get appealed all the way up to the u.s. supreme court? is that where this is headed, ultimately? it s certainly possible these are unique questions, i would expect someone particular like mark melrose who has some of the best double-team in this entire group of people, the appears of the resources to get
surrendered, and they scheduled the first hearing before the judge. the district attorney fani willis says she would like to do the arraignment the week of september 5th. the former president at his 18th codefendant will have to come back to fulton county for the arraignment. we could also expect pretty much some ultimately to continue to see legal challenges. we know mark meadows and jeffrey clark have filed challenges trying to move their cases to federal court, we expect the former president will likely tried the same. rudy giuliani has suggested on one of his podcast that he intends to do that. jake, we have to see the legal team solidify, this may be wide to four presidents secured his new attorney because they only have a finite amount of time after the arraignment to file certain challenges to the indictment. someone please ample rudy giuliani, to figure out who is going to represent him throughout the trial, because of course the lawyer who helped with this body has been