the finger at trump. another defendant in the georgia election case, now claiming, she was simply following trump's orders when she agreed to be a fake collector. >> reporter:'s legal team is now scrambling to stop the trial from starting in two months. plus, trump's former coping after becoming the first president to face criminal charges and have his mug shot taken. brought down by a bomb. that is one 30 into what caused the plane for prigozhin to crash according to u.s. intelligence. who could have done it? let's go "outfront ." >> good evening.embryonic you are in for erin burnett. "outfront" tonight, blaming trump. another defendant in the georgia election case, now claiming she was just following trump eye orders which he signed on to be a fake collector. in a new court filing, kathy latham's attorney rights,, mrs. latham was acting pursuant to the guidelines of the constitution at the direction of the president of the united states. latham's claim comes as trump is trying to distance himself from some of his 18 codefendants. >> i look at some of the other people, and i don't know a lot of those people. i don't even know that i have met a lot of those people. >> those people have now all turned themselves into authorities, as has former president trump, who made history last night, becoming the first president to have his mug shot taken. trump, wasting no time trying to capitalize on a picture. his campaign is now selling t- shirts and other merchandise featuring the mug shot with the slogan, never surrender.as the world witnessed, trump did surrender to authorities yesterday. not long after his former chief of staff, mike meadows. tonight, meadows is gearing up for a major hearing. monday, he's trying to move the case from fulton county to a federal court, and it could have major implications for trump and the case as a whole. we'll have much more on that in a moment. sara murray is "outfront." sara, just got a court district attorney funny willis' report. what's the latest? >> reporter: that's right. keeping with the posture that she wants to move quickly with this case, she's informing defendants and attorneys that she's ready to go in may to september to begin showing discovery in this case but again, she has asked for a rather large usb drive to provide so that she can share this initial batch of discovery. look, she's already told the judge in this case that she would like to see it go to trial in october of this year, a date that many lawyers involved and not involved in this case think is unrealistic. >> reporter:'s team has already weighed in on this, saying, they oppose that october date, although they have not offered an offensive. most importantly, we still haven't heard, yet, from the judge, in terms of what he thinks is a reasonable schedule for this case. in the meantime, though, you got 19 defendants. it's a little bit like herding cats. you're watching people make moves in their best interest and not necessarily together. today, we also saw sidney powell, one of those attorneys working with donald trump in the aftermath of the 2020 election say that she wants a speedy trial in the fulton county superior court. another one of these defendants, ken chaz roe, previously told the judge that. he had his court date set for october of 2023. the judge, though, made clear he was setting that for chaz roe, not everyone.we will see what he does for this. >> sara, i mentioned the next major hearing in this case monday. tell us what we expect to see them. >> reporter: this is going to be interesting, because it's an evidentiary hearing for mike meadows to try to move his case to federal court he's also asked the federal court to just dismiss all the charges against him. so, we've seen people work flying ahead of this area, and we've seen the district attorney's office lining up potential witnesses that they could call as part of the case that they want to make. among them is brad raffensperger, the georgia secretary of state, the person trump pressured to find the votes needed for him to win the state of georgia. there's another secretary of state official on there that got calls from donald trump, as well as medications with meadows. and two attorneys who were also on the call, working on behalf of the trump campaign on the call between trump and raffensperger. again, the da's team is going to make the argument that meadows was not working in his official capacity as a federal officer when he was meddling in the election in georgia, and that he should not move it to federal court. we'll wait to see how meadows makes his case, but you can bet, rihanna, even though this is a hearing that is focused on the fate of mike meadows in all of this, there are going to be a lot of defendants who are watching to see how this plays out, including the former president too. >> they surely will be. sara murray, thank you so much for that. "outfront" now, former trump white house attorney, ty cobb. i want to thank you for being with us and get your reaction to this new filing from sidney powell asking for a speedy trial for this, of course, comes after another codefendant, kenneth chaz roe, made the same request where do you see this going? >> thank you for having me, briana. nice to be on with you. i think this is a problem for chaz roe. he had made a creative, gutsy move, where his lawyer, who, by the way, is quite a talented lawyer, you know, seemed to believe -- and i think gets paired off by himself -- you know, he might have a shot by himself. i'm not sure i agree with that, but it is a strategic move, and i admire those. but now, he is in a situation where he may have to go to trial with sidney powell, which i have to say, of all defendants in this entire case, the last person i would want to be alone in a courtroom with if i was another defendant. >> and why is that? >> well, you know, because everything -- the problem she has is everything that she did was a lie. the evidence of it, as to her claims, you remember she is, so far, a field, on the constellation, voting machine side of this. she had a theory about money, dark money moving through cuba, and china, to impact the election. you know, even rudy. you know, having some of the theories as to crackpot theories. so, you know, she's -- and she went to federal court on behalf of, you know, the trump campaign and trump and sold these lies, intended to sell them. there were no buyers, but she has, really, in my view, you know, the most difficult case to defend of all the defendants. >> yeah. and very interesting, he may have to then be linked to that here. so, the next hearing -- we were watching this, you're watching this -- monday, mike meadows, moving to push the case to federal court, saying, he was acting as a federal officer. the a funny willis in a federal filing this week, quote, meadows has not shown how his participation in an enterprise that conspired to overturn a recent election had any relationship to official duties, much less how his participation in such an agreement was necessary for him to perform as chief of staff. what do you think? >> so, i think that, as well as her arguments, you know, make sense, on the other hand, they don't necessarily direct themselves to the actual standard that's going to be applied. you know, judge steven jones, he had those arguments, is a very, very talented judge. you know, very strong judge, and i think he's going to be listening very carefully to ms. willis' factual claims, because superficially, at least, meadows makes a compelling case that arranging calls, attending meetings, even visiting federal facilities, you know, is part of the things that are within his job description. now, there are problems with his argument, including some emails that he wrote, and the fact that he wasn't a mere listener on the call to raffensperger. remember, he strongly objected and argued with the state officials about their claims of very few dead voters, having voted, and he was insisting, you know, the numbers were much higher, in the thousands, and so, he was not a passive participant in those calls, and that may hit willis over the hump on this. >> then, that's something we're looking for on monday, for sure.so, trump is now the first former president with a mug shot. our sources are saying he wanted to appear defined in his photo, that he put a lot of thought into this. he chose not to smile. obviously, that was very purposeful here. jail records listed him as 6'3" and 215 pounds. those are numbers that were self- reported. what is your reaction? >> well, i notice he didn't include his 40-not dash time in the 4.3 range. i'm glad he could hole on that. 215? no way. >> what do you think about, though? does that have any material value if you believe he is not telling the truth? >> no. not really. it's just another insight into trump's psyche, you know, and how driven he is by whatever facts that he can get out that he thinks will make it -- make them more appealable to others. >> so, ty, when you think that all this will wrap up? obviously, we're looking at a couple cases moving very quickly, but the larger tranche of defendants here? >> i do think, in the georgia cases, i mean, there's a good chance they could still be arguing about what court this would be tried in, federal or state court, a year from now, after appeals. i think this is an appealable issue. i think jones, you know, even if it isn't an immediate interlocking for an appeal, i think jones might certify this. you know, this is the first time a former president and, you know, his colleagues, who have been charged with a heinous crime like this, this is the first presidential -- former presidential mug shot -- you know, we have ever seen, and will he looks like a bad man, bill and, in the mug shot, he is still entitled to all the rights and privileges of a criminal defendant, so he will get a hearing on all these issues, and i think it could take, as i've said, in these two years, before willis gets the bulk of this trial, to court. i do think, under georgia law, which is quite demanding, that it is highly likely that powell and jonesboro do go to trial quickly. i'm not sure how that would work out. i think they're in great danger, but clear choice. >> yeah. that is a long way off. ty cobb, thank you so much. we appreciate your time tonight . >> my pleasure. nice to be with you. 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[ engine revving ] ♪ ♪ made it! mom! leave running behind, behind. the new turbocharged volkswagen atlas. does life beautifully. new information tonight on team trump's game plan. sources, telling cnn, donald trump's team has had multiple conversations about how to navigate his 2024 campaign and his growing court schedule. let's go right to christian holmes, who broke this story. christian, what are you learning? >> i talked to a number of trip advisors, and starting four, they don't believe this will happen. the trials rights are going to happen while he's campaigning, but as the trials mount, they have come to the realization that this is a possibility. look at this, or here. again, this is subject to change, but if you look at the camping schedule, and the trial schedule, particularly, let's look at january. the second we have this potential client for the 2022 election >> reporter: on the 15th is the iowa caucus andy eg and carol civil trial. march 5th, super tuesday, as well as the 25th disorderly daniels hush money trial for stormy daniels. this could be a clear campaign for president and be sitting in these trials. they point to a media strategy, which is somewhat of the mind of all publicity is good publicity. something of the donald trump, himself, believes. look at the cupboard on thursday. they liked the way that that went, particularly because it was the day after the debate, and it really took all the oxygen out of the race. everything was focused on him and his arrest. they believe they can manipulate the media and spin the media that way if he is having this kind of extensive coverage during a trial now, it remains to be seen whether or not, of course, that is true, but they say, donald trump is somebody who has the capability of doing so, looking at last night, and his decision to coast on -- host on x, formerly known as twitter, a moment when he was already the center of attention, and essentially building on that. his team had had multiple discussions about what was going to post on twitter for the first time since he was banned in 2021, and then reinstated. this was out of the blue. this was trump himself deciding that he was going to take control of this media narrative, but i will tell you that even if this does happen, even if they do believe that they can capitalize on this with voters and try to take the oxygen out of the race, i have spoken to a number of trump's allies and public operatives who worry this kind of extensive media coverage is actually just going to exhaust voters and turn them off. of course, brianna, as we know, this is all unprecedented. this is completely new. we're just going to have to watch it unfold to see how this really plays out, particularly with the election. >> yeah. hard to know how it will influence voters. we haven't seen it before. kristen holmes, thank you for the great reporting. we appreciate it. "outfront now, right goodman, with sara matthews as well, deputy press secretary in the trump white house . she met with special counsel jack smith's team and also testify before the january 6th select committee. jonah goldberg, editor in chief of the dispatch with us as well. jonah, you just heard christian's reporting there. we saw trump wasting no time last night trying to capitalize off of his arrest. i think that's not really a surprise. he had this fundraising email, and he had the mug shot that he can feature, which was a future unlike any other time before here. what do you think about what you saw? >> yeah. look, there's a well- established trend with donald trump, where he always tries to double-down, re-intensify his bond with his base, which is also his donor base. the problem with that is, as a political matter, it's sort of like the salesman says, sure, we lose money on every sale, but we'll make it up in volume. right? he turns off the actual swing voters, independence, republicans were decided they already don't like him. they just intensify their animosity towards him when he does all this stuff. but the feedback he gets in the bubble of twitter and people who tell them the things he wants to here is that he's just doing it. that's what gets social media worship of trump this otherworldly field, because the feedback loop reinforces a lot of bad decisions. >> really interesting point. you know, sara, trump, houston to brag about how much he could campaign, how much he loved to camping, and how he would do multiple campaign rallies each day as a candidate. right? do you think that he could kind of keep that up, anything close to that, if he's also facing these legal obligations, these trial dates at the same time? >> i don't think that's going to be possible, just given the schedule. it's going to be more difficult for him to be out there, campaigning on the road, but also, you have to look at it from a financial standpoint, too, you know, because i think the campaign's fundraising to help fund his legal fees. you know, and in the rally that you would want to put money toward, that's taking away from the legal defense, and it's not just trump's legal defense, it's the legal defense of his codefendants, especially in this georgia case. so, i think that while he is going to want to be out there, he's basically the energizer bunny. he could be on the go constantly. i witnessed it firsthand during my time at the white house. i think that he is going to face some difficulty in the 2024 campaign, being able to keep up that same pace. >> look, you don't want any campaign dollars to be bled off, because it's going to be quite the fight if he is the nominee. brian, it's clear that trump doesn't want a trial to happen before the 2024 elections for local reasons, maybe also financial reasons there. would there be any upside for him for it to happen before then though? >> i think there's a significant upside if the trial of kenneth cheseboro proceeds without trump as were the codefendants. if kenneth cheseboro gets this october 3rd trial date, which is the current order of the court, then trump, as a legal matter, does get to preview the entirety of the prosecutor's case against cheseboro, and in his lawyers will be able to much better prepare themselves in the eventuality of when he's tried. of course, they also get to see all the witnesses. they can figure out if there are any discrepancies between the cheseboro statements and the witness'. of course, if that trial were to result in an acquittal, they would be very significant results for him, but if the trial were to result in a conviction, that would put him in significant jeopardy. of course, the other question for him, and any trial, is jury notification. whether or not the jurors, even if they seek help, would say, no, not for him. anyone of them doing that would prevent a conviction, and you can imagine they might be morally able to nullify the presidential election them post- presidential election. >> jonah, not a coincidence, likely, here. president biden, sending out a fundraising email last night. the title was apropos of nothing, and it said, inside, i think today's a great day to give to my campaign. here's biden's answer today when asked if he saw donald trump's mug shot. >> have you seen donald trump's mug shot yet? mr. president? >> no. not on television maybe. >> what did you think? >> what did you think about how he's relating to this moment? >> i think he's going to walk a fine line here on this. and i thought the campaign thing was a little too cute by half, but, you know, he's got this double-edge problem, that i honestly think -- and i think there are a lot of democrats would agree away from a television camera -- that any other nominee -- on the republican side, within reason, you probably beat biden. biden thinks that he's the guy who knows how to beat trump, and that he's the guy, and he did it once before and all that kind of thing, leaving out the fact that it was during covid , and his popularity was much higher back then. i think it's a much dicier proposition that he can beat trump this time that last time, and so, he kind of needs to run against trump on the proposition that there are a lot of voters who don't like either of them. but if you forced them to choose, they're going to go to biden. if it were, say, nikki haley, that would be a real problem. they are in this sort of mutual, codependency kind of thing. trump says, i'm the only guy who can be biden, biden says, i'm the only guy who can beat trump, and will get a replay of 2016 with two candidates so popular, each has a chance to lose to the other. >> yeah. maybe he does want to do, then, in that case. sara, trump was on newsmax last night, where he was asked how well he is sleeping in the middle of all of this, and this is what he said. >> i do sleep soundly, and i don't let it bother me, because it is what it is. it's a harmful thing. >> you know, what do you think about that answer? >> i imagine that he knows that, politically, this benefits them. i would say, in the short term, at the very least, i think that this is going to solidify his standing in the primary. he's the clear front-runner, but i think he knows, from a personal standpoint, this is a really bad thing for his legacy. he's been indicted four times. now, this mug shot is out there. i think that, all, of course, his team has capitalized on it, try to spin it into a positive, fun raised off of it -- which is good -- i think he also knows that he is in trouble here . i mean, look at the facts of the case in georgia, for example. he's on audiotape telling the georgia secretary of state to find him 11,780 both when there have been multiple recounts already. i mean, it's going to be really hard for him to prove that he wasn't trying to overturn the election, and for them to claim that he didn't know these people who have been charged in this case, i think that was something else that he said recently in that interview, was that he didn't recall meeting any of these folks, and didn't recognize them. we've heard that line before. he was that line on me when i testified before the january 6th to monday, claiming that he had never interacted with me, never seen me. so, i think that he knows he's in trouble, even if he is going to display a false sense of ravato. >> we know that is a divisive him when he clearly even does know someone. brian, three codefendants now in oldham county who say, look, i was just doing what trump told me to do. i was acting on his orders. you have latham, still, they were fake electors, now have the former gop, chairman of georgia, david chafer. how problematic is this for trump? >> it's not good. it's a bad legal fact for him that you have three of the codefendants, saying, they acted at the direction of trump. so, that's what they say in their legal briefs. that will hurt him in georgia, and it will hurt him in the federal case as well. i remember reading that line in the federal indictment. it says that the false electors acted under the -- at the direction of -- trump and giuliani, and that is very bad for him. now, we have the three individuals themselves, saying, that's exactly correct. so, the prosecutors will be up to use that, and this is one of the instances in which the codefendants' interests do not agree line.they're ketanji brown jackson say, they're acting under his direction to get into federal court that's a good argument there for them, but it's a pretty bad argument from. >> yeah. and we'll be watching that, because it certainly is. ryan, sara cardona, thank you to all of you. "outfront" next, u.s. intelligence says, prigozhin's plane may have been brought down by a bomb. if the was, who could have planted d the exposure? it appears ron desantitis' takeover of a liberal arts college has backfired. a storore you will see first on "outfront.t." businesses need 5g solutions today. that's why they choose t-mobile for business. mlb partners with t-mobile to not only enhance the fan experience, but to advance how the game is played. aaa relies on t-mobile's network to stay connected nationwide, so they can help get their members back on the road. and we're helping pano ai innovate, to stop the spread of wildfires. now's the time to see what america's largest 5g network can do for your business. tonight, an onboard explosion, one theory, that the u.s. intelligence community is exploring, as it evaluates what caused the plane believed to be carrying wagner chief yevgeny prigozhin to fall out of the sky. this, as russian officials say, they've recovered the plain's flight recorders as part of the investigation into the crash. melissa is "outfront pretended to have covered the wagner group, interviewed wagner fighters. what is the reaction to prigozhin's apparent death? >> a good deal of grief, brianna, and a great deal of shock . this, after all, a man who had cheated death so many times, cheated justice charges, even in the wake of his failed march on moscow. for those wagner fighters, the ones that had been with the group for a long time. of course, ma committed a distinction, when you see a lot more experienced fighters, compex, even to adjoining the rank and file of wagner to try to help it make progress here, in ukraine, but if you take those original wagner fighters who were very experienced fighters, the elite, they had a great deal of respect for yevgeny prigozhin. this was not just a founder of wagner. he was very hands-on. whether it was from the battlefield of syria in 2015 to more recently, in so many of those african countries, where wagner has been part and parcel, not just for the medical and skip, but the security landscape for so many countries. what many of the spiders saw was a man who was hands-on, and they, themselves, found themselves at the heart of a group that had a great deal of allure and repetition for being a fine-fighting machine. now, of course, then, there is what camila six represented to those beyond his immediate fires. i think you're seeing a lot of that in the brief your sink adriana, at the makeshift memorials that have popped up in st. petersburg. what the 2022 envisioned it was essentially exposed his form, his group, he, himself, found himself thrust into the limelight, and he seemed to enjoy it a great deal. and that, of course, you saw, spoke to that part of the russian population that, frankly, was appalled by what they saw happening in ukraine. still, shock for him everyone that this was so brutal, even as we await the results of those investigations. brianna, this was not a poisoning if, indeed, this was done on purpose. if this was an assassination, this was an expulsion designed to show that there is one man in charge in russia. that is important. >> it's in the very loud message. melissa bell, live for us from ukraine, thank you so much. for jones, director of the adjuster program at the center for strategic and international studies and george beebe, the former cia russia analysis chief, who spent a lot of time living in russia as well. seth, this bomb theory, i know you have been talking to your sources.what are you learning about this? >> well, i think we have right now is a lot of circumstantial evidence that this was some kind of a bomb attack that took down the airliner. we have motivation here, in this case, prigozhin had thumbed his nose at the kremlin, conducted an insurrection against vladimir putin, and second, from talking to my sources with the u.s. government, the u.s. has no evidence that any kind of surface-to-era missile was shot at the airplane, which strongly suggests that something on that aircraft to get down. the reality, of course, is that because it was over russian territory, it's the russian government that will control the investigation of it. >> that's right. george, russian authorities say, to that point, the flight reporter, this other relevant material, that's going to be forensically examined to determine the cause of the crash. you know, for sure, about russia, how the system operates. what are you inspecting will be the outcome of that investigation? >> well, brianna, i think the outcome of this investigation is going to be inconclusive and has strong reason to want to send a signal to russian elites that he was responsible for taking prigozhin down. he wants to reestablish his authority, show them that he is in charge, but he also doesn't want to put himself in legal jeopardy, or put the russian government in legal jeopardy. so, i expect that the results of this investigation will either be inconclusive, or they will try to pin the blame for this on ukraine or the united states. >> seth, as you are seeing -- and we see in pictures -- people are visiting these makeshift memorials to wagner in major cities. they're laying flowers in st. petersburg, also in moscow. there's video that is surfacing of a man purporting to walk through a desecrated wagner cemetery in russia, saying, that the site has been demolished. the graves have been raised to the ground.how important is wagner to put in, and will it remain as valuable and productive for him with prigozhin and his other top leaders gone? >> well, i think private military companies with wagner as the largest will still remain important for russia in places like the central-african republic in mali, sudan, libya, syria. they play an important role in site security. they play an important role in the attraction of resources, but i do think there are some lessons that the criminal probably take away, including limiting the power of any one organization, the way wagner had got in the way. i think there are steps we will see the kremlin take to try to reestablish control over private military companies like wagner. >> george, do you think that putting comes out of this stronger? we talked a little bit about the elites. we talked a little bit about just regular, ordinary people in russia with melissa bell. what about with them? >> well, i think, within the elites, putin has definitely strengthened his position. ironically, i think a lot of the elites are going to welcome this action. they don't trust each other. these are people that fear such a return to a situation like the 1990s, when they were at war with each other, and they lacked someone with a firm hand in the kremlin that could protect them against each other. now, putin has said, i'm in charge. he's shown that he will deal decisively with a rebellion, and i think that will be a source of comfort within the russian elites. as for the russian people, i think they're going to want to know that there's stability and order in the country. i think a lot of the more shocked by this uprising, and i think the degree that putin can show that stability is back, it will serve his cause with the russian people as well. >> very interesting, george, seth jones, thank you so much to both of you. 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" >> reporter: with botner -- wagner boss yevgeny prigozhin now present death in a plane crash, the wagner says, the kremlin had nothing to do that, but western leaders on so sure. there is no evidence that russia's leadership may have brought down the jet, but prigozhin is the latest of many figures harmed after crossing the russian president. in 2006, former russian intelligence agent turned putin critic turned ill in the uk and soon died. doctors found he had been poisoned by a radioactive substance. although, denied involvement, an inquiry came to a different conclusion, saying, russia's intelligence service, the sfv, was behind it. >> the sfv operation to kill mr. libnamenko was approved, by the then head of the sfv, and also by president putin. 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