little bit. a former president has not had to surrender himself to the fulton county jail. so far the two that have surrendered have been treated like any other defendant in any other criminal case. we shall see. it will be extraordinary, if that s the case. zach cohen live for us from the fulton county jail. we want to take you a few minutes down the road to the courthouse in atlanta with kaitlyn. negotiations have been going on all day behind closed doors, behind you. walk us through the agreements that have been hashed out. reporter: at this point we have seen about half the people that are charged in this case have some sort of negotiations with the prosecutors. we re starting to see how the bonds are being set for each of these defendants, and they re essentially two groups. there are the groups that are getting six-figure bonds and there s the group that is getting lower bond amounts. the group with the six-figure
election interference indictment against former president trump and 18 of his allies. this morning, two co-defendants turned themselves in at the fulton county jail. two filed to get the case kicked over to federal court and defense lawyers for a host of others have been shuffling in and out of the courthouse for meetings with d.a. fani willis s team. looming over all that activity is the biggest surrender of all, that of course, by the former president. trump said he will turnly. in on thursday and this will be his fourth time being booked on criminal charges. cnn s zachary cohen is posted outside the jail where all of this is going to be happening. zach, wasn t trump but we did see a high-profile defendant surrender today. tell us about this. reporter: conservative attorney john eastman is really described in the indictment from fani willis as one of the architects of the broader effort to overturn the 2020 election. today, he surrendered to the jail behind me and was treated
in trying to overturn the i two 20 election, at least publicly. that s right. and she has resorted to crowd funding to pay her mounting legal fees. she s publicly questioned why trump and list super pac that he formed are not helping her out. have a listen. so far, president trump and the campaign have not given me anything for my legal defense. i have also not personally asked him. i have not asked the campaign. i don t know what if any he has given, or the campaign has given to other attorneys or other people who have been attacked through this. cnn reporter marshall cohen joins me now. a sad fact is, for many of the folks who participated in this and are now facing criminal charges, they re not getting help from the former president, although he has raised many tens of millions of dollars to cover his own legal fees. they ll have to fend for themselves. most of the key players in this
the case that trump can t win. that trump carries too much baggage. that he s too concerned with the past and the future. having said that, everybody does it and he leads by 46 points. i m not sure there is any way to break through and beat donald trump. maybe the only person who can is donald trump. quickly, you ve moderated before, including on fox. a key question you would ask. the first thing you have to ask, who won the 2020 debate? secondly, you have to ask, what happened on january 6th? and if people aren t willing to answer those two questions truthfully, i don t see how they ever beat donald trump. i understand there are a lot of people in the republican party who, voters who feel, who go with trump on all that. unless you re willing to stand up and say, here s the truth. and more importantly focus and sargs we have to stop talking about 2020. let s talk about your future in
fulton county at this courthouse behind me? and there is a question, what happens with donald trump? all the arguments around this are about these people being somehow connected or protected by the mission of the federal government. things that they were doing either in david shafer s case as an elector, mark meadows, as top officials are working on behalf of the president. but then there is donald trump himself. the president of the united states at that time, and all of them are trying to invoke this clause. this law that allows them to say we would like to take this over to federal court because that is where we can do this, because we were federal officials at the time regarding these allegations that the prosecutors are making here. so how that plays out and what the law is going to be here, we re really in uncharted waters with a case like this against the former president. we certainly are.