of his bail amount, so his bond was set at $200,000, so he ll pay him $20,000 cash, presumably out of a big bag marked with a dollar sign on it. with a bandit mask on. and that should expedite his release. rachel, this is why we have been reaching for mobster movies and gangster stories and hip-hop of which there are many in atlanta. it s not a coincidence. it s relevant. mr. sadow represented rick ross. as we await donald trump walking out, rick ross said, i kiss you on your head and tell you everything is great. even though i m out on bond and facing eight. this is what career criminals talk like and face, and the fact that he needs a bail bondsman and needs to show up and he can bring his money in his plane. other rich people have, of course, tried to buy up a better deal in our system. we have all covered those stories. but it doesn t always work. i think tonight is very different because this is the
a pool camera in the motorcade with him. so we ll have some images of what happens there. we believe we ll be seeing him as he goes into the jail, as he arrives at the jail. and heads in to be booked and fingerprinted. we do not believe that the pool camera will be allowed to go into the jail with him. i say we don t believe that because again, anything could happen, but our expectation tonight is our images of him on the ground in atlanta at the fulton county jail will be of him entering and leaving the facility. he ll then motorcade back to the airport. again, he may make remarks to the press or to passers-by at any point. we ll have to see. we re watching this live. but this is new. i m joined by my friends alex wagner, nicolle wallace, joy reid, ari melber. these are live shots. this is the fourth time that we have covered the arrest and booking of former president trump. it doesn t get less weird.
rappers in atlanta, who the same lady, fanny what is her middle name, fani tiefa willis. if she was going to treat a group of hip-hop artists like a gang, she needs to treat them like a gang. because they are a gang. and they re sharing lawyers. there you go. one of the things that s important on this point about wealth and being a symbol of ostentatious wealth, the big plane is part of this and his self-proclaimed billionaire status is a major part of his political heft in this country as well as his just celebrity. with 19 codefendants in this case, we re starting to see the sort of bluff called in terms of the financial aspects of this. like, among other things, this is a lot of legal fees for a lot of people who are involved here. this is him being tried alongside 18 other people including people like rudy giuliani who we believe owes lots of money to his existing
because it has been so ugly and frightening. i was surprised when he used one of his social media accounts to re-post a call for protest today. somebody who said they were going to be traveling from out to atlanta, to fulton county today, and they gave the actual address, the street address of the jail. trump re-posted that himself, effectively calling on people to turn out and protest for him in fulton county, which you might expect would have a big effect on his followers, particularly the way he has attacked fani willis and the prosecution and the number of people prosecuted alongside him. the turnout, again, was none to say the least. he is not able to turn out people on the street to defend him. that doesn t mean we haven t seen people so doing other things. a lot of people were arrested. a few instances of violence where people say they are acting in his name or out of anger in terms of the way he s
otherwise at this point. this is really the beginning of donald trump s georgia journey. at least the legal one. just today, he brought on a new attorney, ousting his previous attorney, drew findling, who had been working for more than a year on building what would amount to his potential defense in the case of an indictment. but today, he brought on this new attorney, donald trump has made it clear he wants this trial to begin after the 2024 election. but one of his codefendants, chesebro, kenneth chesebro, filed a motion today which was approved by the judge to have his trial begin on october 23rd. really showing the fact that these codefendants are at odds about their way forward in the trial. when you guys were talking about the money of his campaign here, i think it s notable there was a last moment email sent out earlier in which donald trump told his supporters over email and also text message, this is my last email. let us watch this scene unfold as the motorcade of donald trum