Defendants interests. and doesn t have an illusions towards some pack or the former president. téa, let s turn back to the georgia case. d.a. fani willis has given 19 codefendants until friday at noon to turn themselves in. with only seen to surrender. donald trump says he s going on thursday. we don t know what time on thursday. are you surprised we have not seen more people surrender given that we got this conversation on tuesday evening, basically wednesday? kind, of. no because i think they re all getting their ducks in a row. some of them we don t even know if they ve reached agreements on bond amounts, for example. most of them have, but not all. and i think, you know, just like anyone else, you kind of wait until the last minute sometimes. so i think we re going to continue to see also, a lot of people are working around donald trump. nobody probably wants to show up around that circus that
With only seen to surrender. donald trump says he s going on thursday. we don t know what time on thursday. are you surprised we have not seen more people surrender given that we got this conversation on tuesday evening, basically wednesday? kind, of. no because i think they re all getting their ducks in a row. some of them we don t even know if they ve reached agreements on bond amounts, for example. most of them have, but not all. and i think, you know, just like anyone else, you kind of wait until the last minute sometimes. so i think we re going to continue to see also, a lot of people are working around donald trump. nobody probably wants to show up around that circus that donald trump will court on
Participant friendly for these defendants. their lawyers will go over and prenegotiate their bond amounts. then they will be booked, they will be fingerprinted, they will have their mug shots taken, there will be conversation about what they must and must not do until they appear during the week of september 5th for arraignment. this happens in every criminal case. our hyperfocus here is allowing us to understand how this process works. for every other defendant in the criminal justice system, to the extent that people like rudy giuliani are suggesting that it is something remarkable or unusual, the only thing unusual is that they re receiving a little bit of extra deference to speed the process through. and, blayne, three of the trump co-defendants, we were just talking about that, mark meadows, jeffrey clark and david shafer are trying to get their cases moved to federal court. what is the latest on that? reporter: it is a race against time on several fronts.
Power. remember giuliani is also co-conspirator number 1 in the justice department s january 6th investigation. i want to get straight to katelyn polantz, who is at the courthouse in atlanta. katelyn, it was a busy day in fulton county ahead of trump s surrender tomorrow. reporter: seven of these 19 defendants in this case against donald trump related to after the election. those people, seven people went to jail today to be arrested to have their mugshots taken, to be fingerprinted and to be put into the system as criminal defendants. one of them, of course, was rudy giuliani, the former mayor of new york, that prominent attorney after the election, and other lawyers, too, who were seen very closely working with donald trump trying to advance his goals to sow disinformation about the election. and they got steep bond amounts. six figures for each of them, just like donald trump did. trump s was a bit more at