any current or former president of the united states. good morning, everyone. we're glad you're with us on this friday, august 25th. new, overnight, there are several fast-moving developments tied to donald trump's case in georgia, the trump campaign already raising money off this mug shot and sources tell cnn that trump made the decision to intentionally look defiant in that photo. >> also new overnight, three more of his co-defendants have turned themselves in over the last few hours including jeffrey clark, he's the former doj official accused of playing a key role in the effort to overturn the election. we're now awaiting two more of those co-defendants to surrender. the deadline is just six hours away. the first trial in the case is now set for october 23rd. one of the defendants, kenneth chesebro, asked for a speedy trial and d.a. fani willis said let's go. she also wants to try all the defendants beginning that day. >> georgia's secretary of state has been subpoenaed to testify against mark meadows this monday. that's when a hearing will be held to discuss whether trump's former chief of staff can move his case to federal court. >> and there is one co-defendant who had to spend the night in jail, harrison floyd, he's the leader of black voters for trump. he slept over after he failed to negotiate a bond agreement before surrendering. we're going to cover all of this, this morning. "cnn this morning" starts right now. if you think about it, it was just five months ago that we were talking about maybe one indictment, maybe two, maybe three. and now it has been four and this one is different because this comes with a mug shot. >> fingerprints. >> inmate number. >> yeah. >> quite a night. >> a moment of history. >> for sure. this morning you're waking up to that moment of history. former president trump's mug shot is splashed across newspapers and television screens. his booking photo at the fulton county jail on all of these front pages. not only in the united states, but around the world. trump was only at the jail in atlanta for about 20 minutes. he was arrested. he was booked as inmate p01135809. >> trump is flaunting his mug shot. he made a surprise return to twitter known as x for the first time since he was banned after the january 6th insurrection and then reinstated by elon musk last year. two hours after he surrendered, trump posted his mug shot with the caption never surrender. we have a lot to get to, let's start with nick valencia at the fulton county jail where the former president actually surrendered. nick, good morning to you. >> reporter: good morning, victor. the scene outside the fulton county jail was one for the history books. donald trump has been called many things in his lifetime and you can now add inmate to that list. a mug shot and inmate number p01135809 will forever be associated with the former president. donald j. trump was arrested on state charges related to election subversion in georgia thursday. he was booked and released on bond at the fulton county jail. the former president took to the right wing network newsmax to discuss his surrender. >> terrible experience. i came in, i was treated very nicely, but it is what it is. i took a mug shot, which i never heard the words mug shot. that wasn't at the wharton school of finance and i had to go through a process. it is election interference. >> reporter: ahead of his surrender, trump agreed to a $200,000 bond and other release conditions including not using social media to intimidate co-defendants and witnesses in the case. this is the fourth criminal case filed against the former president this year. >> what has taken place here is a travesty of justice. we did nothing wrong. i did nothing wrong. and everybody knows it. >> reporter: trump continues to deny any wrongdoing in this case, and the others. >> it should never happen. if you challenge an election, you should be able to challenge an election. i thought the election was a rigged election, a stolen election, and i should have every right to do that. >> reporter: trump shared his mug shot on his truth social and x account, formerly known as twitter, with the words election interference and never surrender below it. it was his first tweet on x since january 8th, 2021, two days after the insurrection. the former president was not the only high profile person to surrender on thursday. former white house chief of staff mark meadows surrendered himself to the fulton county jail. he's been charged with violating georgia's rico act, and soliciting a public officer to violate their oath. he denies any wrongdoing. >> a fulton county grand jury returned a true bill of indictment. >> reporter: just last week, fulton county district attorney fani willis charged trump and 18 co-defendants with meddling in the 2020 georgia presidential election loss. on thursday, the district attorney filed a motion requesting a trial date of october 23rd, 2023. that date was set after kenneth chesebro, the co-defendant, considered the architect of the fake electors plot, requested a speedy trial as his right. his trial is set to begin on that date. and more activity overnight as the co-defendants continue to turn themselves in, including former department of justice official jeffrey clark. two co-defendants remain and they have just hours left to surrender. fani willis has given the noon deadline today for that to happen. victor, poppy. >> nick valencia outside the jail for us, thank you. a lot to get to with our team, national politics team leader for bloomberg mario parker with us at the table, with political reporter for the atlanta journal constitution patricia murphy, former manhattan assistant district attorney jeremy solan and cnn contributor and former georgia state senator who testified in this probe before the grand juror jen jordan. great to have everyone. thank you for being here. jen, full circle for you. you were a state lawmaker in the room when people like rudy giuliani came down and perpetuated lies and falsehoods about what happened in georgia. then you testified before the grand jury and now you see trump arrested, booked, mug shot. surreal? >> well, it feels a lot better -- >> or too real? >> it feels a lot better on this end than it did in the beginning. the surreal part was when they actually came down to georgia and presented basically a false narrative. and so now, you know, for -- feels like for two years there has been kind of this national gaslighting that what you saw wasn't real, you know, i didn't say that, but the video doesn't lie, and we all know what we saw and what we heard and i was just glad that the grand jury agreed, you know. that there were laws broken. and now he's going to be held accountable and no matter what happens, with respect to a jury trial, at the end of the day, he's been indicted. that is a huge thing. it is such a big deal for the prosecutor to have even brought this case and took an immense amount of courage. it is very real and it is something that we need to keep watching, but yesterday was a really historic day. and not in a good way, right? >> we should note there is a presumption of innocence for any defendant before they go through a jury trial of their peers. >> and, mario, this morning there will be news anchors around the world reading over that mug shot in a myriad of languages, reading that inmate number, and the president's campaign, they're exploiting it, they're selling it, they're making some money off of it because he will need it. put the photograph into context for us. >> yeah, well, they're going to try to rwring as much juice out of this as they possibly can and signal to their supporters he's fighting for you, this is a political -- there is a double standard here, this is election interference. he needs your help, he needs you to galvanize and get behind him as well. so, again, the campaign is taking lemons, trying to make lemonade out of this, trying to -- this is the hand they have been dealt. so they're trying to use it for whatever they can, just to try to capitalize off of it. and so far it has been working if you look at the polls at least. >> i think our colleague stephen collins as he always does frames this so well. let me read part of his column this morning. for a man who built his legend through paparazzi snaps and prizes time magazine bearing his face, the georgia mug shot for all its indignity represents yet another new frontier of notoriety, but for a nation still entangled in recriminations and fury whipped up by trump, the photograph, which flashed immediately around the world, represents a special kind of tragedy. quite a juxtaposition of then and now. >> yeah. it is incredible. and it is just another piece of this story that i think many of us never expected to see. just feels so surreal having covered the trump campaigns in 2015, his early support, how much his crowds just adored him, but then watching the completee because of the trump campaign. seeing this mug shot feels like another chapter in a book that just will not end. this campaign has not ended here in georgia for the last three years. obviously we see it is going to continue. but in terms of how iconic that photo is, we now have supporters in georgia photo shopping themselves into mug shots, fulton county mug shots, putting those on twitter and calling them maga mug shots and saying that now it's on. he galvanized his supporters even further. that's going to be a huge problem next to a general campaign, but so far right now his base is sticking with him, more than they ever have. >> we could put one of those up. mar marjorie taylor greene had a shot called maga mug shot. what do you think? >> it is deploradeplorable, it mockery of justice, it shows the insanity for lack of a better term for people so lost in their obsession with donlald trump in the theory that the election was stolen. it is really sad. he as you pointed out, he's innocent until proven guilty. that's not the issue here. but to stand behind in such a way to make excuses in such a way blindly, that's not what this is about. hold the prosecution to the burden. don't just jump on this bandwagon for political future gain. >> all of the focus, understand understandably is on trump. and mark meadows after that. let's not forget jeffrey clark surrendered overnight too and he was working at the department of justice and within government. the department of justice. and yet he's accused of working to perpetuate these lies and undo what the voters had done. >> that's treason. >> that's not what he's charged with. >> no, no, that's not. from a general thought process here, yes, you know, again, everyone is innocent until p proven guilty, but now he has to face the charges, he's trying for removal to get this to federal court and as we discussed earlier, yes, he was a federal officer at the time he's alleged to have committed these acts, but the next question is what he did, was that in furtherance of his role in the department of justice, and the argument is that it was not, therefore it stays with the state and can be prosecuted and in this case for a larger rico crime. >> we heard from -- control room, let me know if we have the sound of the former president describing his terrible experience ready and i'll bring that to you, jen. i want you to listen to what the former president said about while he was there at rice street and we'll talk about the contrast with the experience of some of the people he targeted over these last several years. let's play it. >> terrible experience. i came in, i was treated very nicely, but it is what it is. i took a mug shot, which i never heard the words mug shot. that wasn't in the wharton school of finance, and i have to go through a process. it is election interference. >> he was in and out in 20 minutes. but if you contrast that with some of the people he focused on, the individuals, ruby freeman, shaye moss who said that they could not go to grocery stores, they were afraid to go out, people came to their homes what do you hear there, the president's description of his experience? >> i just don't think he gets it. i think, you know, when we see the marjorie taylor greene maga mug shot, there seems to be a real disconnect from reality. look, rice street is -- is a jail that is awful. >> no question. >> people are dying there because the conditions are so absolutely deplorable. so the fact that he basically got this great treatment, he comes in, 20 minutes, in and out, right? done and done. and somehow that was awful and bad, when the reality is people that get booked every day there and have their mug shots taken and that have to be in jail there, this is very, very serious. and so, you know for all of these people doing maga mug shots for whatever reason they're doing it, they have no understanding what this really stands for. i mean, this is not good, right? he is in significant legal trouble. and so whether he thinks this is more of a political thing that he needs to massage or not, as a lawyer, he needs to stand down and really focus on his defense because he is facing serious allegations that could end him up with serious time in prison. and that mug shot is not going to really mean anything at the end of the day if he's locked up. >> you know georgia so well, if trump is convicted on these charges, in state court, if it doesn't get moved to federal, would he go to that jail first? 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"wall street journal" there, smaller on "the times," "washington post" same thing. let's push forward to monday, mark meadows goes before a judge, wants to get this thing moved to federal court. and that would -- and trump would want that too. so where does that go on monday? >> meaning -- so there will be -- >> what happens monday and when do we know the outcome? >> there will be a hearing on monday and witnesses called on monday. this is not going to be just some light hearing, it is going to have substance for georgia. so the issue is going to be as i noted many times before, not whether or not these folks, meaning meadows, for example, and clark and trump, were actually serving as officers, although whether trump is an officer is a separate question, it is more of whether or not their actions while they were serving were furthering their roles as whatever role they had, not doing something beyond the scope of their duties in that position. so i think it is going to be difficult for the defense to articulate that, and it doesn't have to be proven beyond a reasonable doubt. that's not the role anyway. it has to be colorable enough to get them past that threshold. even that low threshold is not going to be so easy. what are they doing in the state of georgia? why are they mingling in the state of georgia and the rights of those residents to vote and have their vote counted. that is a difficult hurdle. when will the answer be? not that day. not that day. >> what do you think we'll learn from the indictment that we don't already know? >> you will hear from witnesses that were not heard from in the grand jury. you will likely learn more because you're going to have an opportunity to hear directly from them. >> i mean, two of the attorneys that were representing trump world, right, and that were on that call with raffensperger and meadows have been subpoenaed as well. as was the investigator, i think francis watson, and so the whole point is to show exactly what did meadows do, who did he talk to, what was he asking, because just because he was the chief of staff for the president just doesn't mean, well, he gets this special treatment, right? and really what fani willis' office, what their argument is is what he was doing was really in violation of the law, not in terms of the indictment, but the hatch act, right? when you are -- >> can't use your public office. >> right. you cannot even be -- >> for personal gain. >> or any kind of electioneering or political activity. you can't say i was doing this political activity and electioneering but i was the chief of staff, therefore i get the protection. it falls outside of that. >> given your extensive experience of fulton count why as a prosecutor there, october 23rd is the trial start if they get it because one of the lawyers wants a speedy trial, which defendants have a right to, fani willis' team all ready for that, no problem? >> listen, after 25 years of experience in that office, and having worked personally with fani willis, i can tell you that her team is ready and prepared to go. they were ready for trial when the indictment was handed down. those folks have got their witnesses lined up, and they have got their trial notebooks all set and when october comes, they'll be prepared. and a bit of quick insight. the fact that there are 19 people on this indictment, under rico, this is not unprecedented for this office. d.a. willis and myself, a few years ago, had a rico case in which 35 individuals were indicted under rico. 21 of those individuals entered into negotiated guilty pleas and accepted responsibility and testified during the trial with 12 that actually will try together, the longest criminal jury trial in georgia history, a little more than eight months. but the complex was able to accommodate all those defendants, all those lawyers, all the evidence and we were able to present a comprehensive case to the jury and 11 of the 12 received guilty convictions and so the prospect of this case is not overwhelming or unprecedented for this defense team and this office. >> they have a lot of experience in rico, including an ongoing one right now. appreciate it. very good to have all of your perspective. next, hear from vladimir putin as he make his first remark since the man who led an armed rebellion against him reportedly died in a plane crash. we'll take you live to russia. also this morning, cnn grease on the ground there reporting four arrests have been made as police investigate what started those massive wildfires in the western part of the country. they're looking into whether arsonists are to blame. right now, across greece, firefighters still battling dozens of flames. ...the massage chair at the mall. but...he w wasn't. gain flings with oxixi boost and febreze. - [narrator] this is my coffee shop. we just moved into a bigger space, brought on another employee, and ordered new branded gear for the team. it was so easy. i just chose my products, added our logo, and placed my order. bring your own team together with custom gear. get started today at customink.com. it's because of tiktok that i had to go out and get a website. i'm at a point now where i've outgrown my house. growing up, every time i'd get out of the shower, i would itch. my first experience with goat milk soap, it kinda was like a light bulb moment. tiktok is a fantastic platform for diy. if you'd have told me three years ago that i would own my own business and be expanding into a separate building, i would've told you you'd lost your mind. how can you sleep on such a firm setting? 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>> well, the beginning of november. the second term. but, you know, we were discussing before, the expectation likely was that there was no way d.a. willis and her team is going to be ready to proceed. >> expected to be a bluff. >> a bluff. and when that bluff is called, that's problematic. i was a prosecutor as well and criminal defense attorney now, very often with these felony indictments, the time is your friend. what can happen is many intervening factors, a witness doesn't become available anymore or a change in that testimony or some intervening factor we can't even contemplate, so time is often your friend. there is no advantage, especially with this magnitude of evidence that testimony and what is presented from discovery that will push that forward so aggressively. >> what is the strategy behind a bluff even? >> you hope they're not ready and prepared even if they're not ready and prepared and so many moving pieces, that can favor you as a defendant. >> part of the issue is that this is a particular thing under georgia law. if fani willis' office wasn't ready and could not go to trial, mr. chesebro would be acquitted as a matter of law. >> explain that more. if she can't get this -- >> if she can't get this by october, by the 23rd of october or by the 1st of november, if she can't start trial by then, he automatically gets a pass. >> that is so interesting. >> statutory. >> it is statutory. so it is meant to mirror kind of the protections under the constitution. so whether she -- >> for a defendant. >> right. whether she was ready or not, they're going to have to go. and so that's why it is kind of an interesting move by her attorneys, specifically her attorney scott grubman. >> is this the -- is this the preview then, mario, to what the bigger trial will look like? chesebro is a different defendant, but he's part of the alleged fraud. part of the alleged conspiracy. >> yeah. and for at least for trump at least, trump would love to -- his legal strategy has been to delay, delay, delay, right? that gives him time, the closer we get to the presidential election, that kind of gives him even more juice if you will to say that this is election interference, to put prosecutors in a tough position. >> his lawyers can watch what those prosecutors do in this case against chesebro and they're going to see a lot more that maybe very useful for their case, when their client is tried. >> yeah, that would -- i mean, essentially giving him more ammo, that would help, right? but, again, i think from at least talking to sources within the trump camp, they would like to see this go as far back as to the -- the 2024 election, at least closer to it, to help their political argument as well. >> patricia, out to you, the mark meadows of it all, former chief of staff here, he's trying to have his case, first step, removed to federal court and then he lost his appeal to -- his attempt to try to stop from getting that mug shot and being booked. the larger picture and the influence on this story, this is a member of congress who could have kept that seat for as long as potentially he wanted, went to the white house, was on this call, the line is were you just connecting the president to the secretary of state, or were you advocating and were you part then of this conspiracy? >> yeah. that also was not the only time that mark meadows was involved in this entire process. he actually showed up in cob county unexpectedly when they were doing a signature audit, showed up outside the doors to the point that election workers had to say i'm sorry, mr. meadows, we can't let you in to see this process because you're part of one of the campaigns. he also was a part of connecting people behind the scenes, we feel like he played a very large role behind the scenes, connecting trump campaign people with state senators, state representatives, all trying to move their case forward to overturn the election here in georgia. he was acting at the behest of the president, whether or not that was in a federal capacity or a campaign capacity, fani willis already said he was violating portions of the hatch act, which would have kept him out of a role of the campaign, even while he was doing that. all of this needs to be sorted out. it was in the at all just limited to the phone call with raffensperger. >> thank you, all, for your expertise, your perspective. i learned a lot. thank you. >> in louisiana, wildfires are forcing people to evacuate their homes. >> from this fire, they already found embers that are still lit 20 miles away. >> a look at the efforts to contain those flames ahead. next, what u.s. intel is saying about the russian mercenary leader prigozhin and the plane that crashed near moscow. right now get a free footlong at subway. like the subway series menu. buy one footlong in the app, get one free. for free. that's wt i'm talking about. order in the subway app day. i'm patrioc kenny. and, hi, i'm amanda on tiktok. my scooter broke down. i went into a depression. how do you feel about that? 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>> reporter: well, i mean, he said there was going to be an investigation under way and that that investigation was under way and it would be a full one to try and get to the bottom of what actually happened. you know, the incident that brought that plane down where yevgeny prigozhin, the leader of wagner, apparently on board, according to the passenger manifest. and so there is not absolute confirmation yet, you know, officially that he's dead, but clearly his name is on the list and everybody on board was killed. look at this makeshift memorial that sprung up here in st. petersburg, where prigozhin was from. it is outside the building which is the headquarters of the wagner organization. and people are streaming through, laying sort of flowers like this, putting photographs of prigozhin as well, people saying in this hell, he was the best. people talking about him in the past tense over here. if we look, wagner arm patches, wagner chevrons here that have been put all over the place. you're seeing a lot of people, family members of people who are in wagner, wagner soldiers themselves coming here to pay their respects. this woman here, i don't know if she speaks -- [ speaking in a non-english language ] she's not -- she doesn't want to speak to us. it is quite solemn situation. another photograph of prigozhin over there. this is very interesting because somebody here, look, has put this really heavy, really heavy sledgehammer here with wagner written on it. the sledgehammer, of course, a potent symbol of the extreme violence that wagner represented and it is with a sledgehammer like that, someone they regarded as a traitor was brutally executed with and on camera and it really kind of like bolstered this reputation that wagner had as being this completely ruthless organization that did whatever it felt it had to, to fight for russia. so you're seeing a whole stream of people, someone doing it right here, look, a whole stream of people that are coming out now, paying their respects to yevgeny prigozhin, a man who was, you know, i think for lots of russians, he said a lot of things about the incompetence of the russian military. that many people in russia agreed with. so i think one of the big questions right now is -- come a bit closer, one of the questions right now is, you know, to what extent his death when he's confirmed to be dead will actually bolster his reputation. or whether, you know, this will end up to be a forgotten chapter in russia's recent turbulence in history. that's a question we don't know the answer to yet. >> some important context and really interesting to show us around where people have brought there too to the memorial. it is early on into the investigation of the crash. what do we know right now? 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