As the Secret Service prepares for an historic moment with 18 other codefendants also surrendering. Biden targets trump. President tearing into his predecessor on Foreign Policy, while holding his own historic summit with two of americas closest allies. Returning to ukraine. An american held captive by russianbacked soldiers for months and finally freed has once again returned to the battlefield. Why . Hes my guest. Lets go outfront. And good evening. Im erin burnett. Outfront tonight, negotiating trumps surrender. Discussions taking on a more urgent tone tonight as sources tell cnn that the former president is now expected to surrender on thursday or friday. Now, sources tell cnn that the Secret Service has been camped out at the Fulton County jail preparing for this historic arrest. Because, keep in mind, its not just trump who will be turning himself in. There are 18 others who must also surrender, including a whos who of trumps orbit. That means trumps former chief of staff mark me
trump because they said they use those mugshots in case somebody goes on the lamb. he s one of the most recognizable people in the entire world so he didn t do that at the federal level. one of the other big differences is that in his federal arraignments, he had the processing, the initial appearance, and the arraignment all at one time. this is going to be a little bit different. he ll be processed and then a judge will set a court hearing date for him. the district attorney has said that she wants all of those initial court appearances to happen the week of september 5th. all right, paula, thank you very much. and obviously not wasting any time in terms of trying to get it started. let s go now to ty cobb, former trump white house lawyer. you heard paula s reporting, right, that it s expected that trump will negotiate on monday for what his actual surrender would look like. because if you show up without doing that in fulton county, the typical situation is you could be booked for
but i do think they will insist on the mugshot and the fingerprinting, because that does seem to be routine there, and fani willis has said that s going to happen. so, i would expect that that will happen. i would expect that the mugshot will be immediately forwarded to trump s pr people and they ll be raising money off of it before he leaves the jail. right. well, i mean, certainly they ll seize it as something they can use in their advantage if they can. so, you ve got the possibility of a mugshot, or the probability of a mugshot. i think that s probably the accurate word at this point, probably. being taken of a former president of the united states. that s momentous. but he s also going to be going to this jail which has a reputation of bad conditions. you heard how that defense lawyer had described it. it s obviously under doj review. so, even just being there, going
only 1 mile per hour above category 3 at 129. we are 130. as we get farther north into the colder water, things begin to die off. but because it is so much, there is going to be so much rainfall. we are still going to get a significant flood threat. i mean, historic-like flood threat with this in places that don t get 5 inches of rain a year. they might get 10 in two days. all right. here s to hoping everyone heeds the warnings of officials in the coming hours and days. thank you very much. i m alex marquardt here in the situation room. thank you so much for watching. erin burnett outfront starts erin burnett outfront starts right now. captions by vitac www.vitac.com outfront next, trump s arrest. cnn learning when the former president is expected to turn himself in to fulton county officials.
of staff mark meadows, his attorney general rudy giuliani will be there. now, all of this coming as the fulton county sheriff has told us that trump will be treated just like any other defendant. now, what that would typically mean is being thoroughly searched by a jail deputy, receiving a medical screening, fingerprinting, and a mugshot. now, this is something trump has so far avoided in the other three indictments he s faced. but trump negotiating his surrender before he actually shows up at the fulton county jail is something he won t most certainly want to do, because if he doesn t he could be faced being put in jail for up to 72 hours. that is typically how it happens in fulton county. and the jail there of course is notorious. a longtime defense attorney who has had a number of clients booked there telling the new york times today, quote, it s miserable, it s cold, it smells. so unpleasant that the justice department s actually investigating the dangerous conditions there after