and forced to go to trial in less than two weeks without qualified counsel in a death penalty case. glenn kirschner last night on this show, pointing out the absurdity of the idea that donald trump is just like a persecuted black teenager in the 1930s. as the right pushes a laughably racist narrative that being an accused felon gives trump street cred with the blacks. also tonight, tennessee state representative justin jones is again silenced by republican house leaders for passionately fighting for gun reform, after a mass murder at a nashville school. representative jones joins me tonight. but we begin tonight with a weird trend that we have noticed coming out of maga republican world. this is a party, after all, whose base is overwhelmingly the same demographic that gets its news from fox, so let s say not super diverse. but since trump came along in 2016, they keep insisting that because of him, republicanism is booming among black people. despite there being no evi
wonder why that was all needed in there? the agreement ordered him to not make any threats against any witnesses or codefendants, including threats made on social media. the ex president s ordered not to discuss the case with his 18 codefendants. one of those defendants, trump attorney and fake electors schemer, kenneth chesebro, had his bond package set at $100,000 today, after his attorneys were spotted meeting with prosecutors at the courthouse. meanwhile, codefendant and fake electors, john eastman, also had his bond set at $100,000. all 19 defendants, trump included, including him of course, have until friday to surrender. and all of this is happening as the majority of republican candidates seem to be on a whole another planet, pretending like this isn t actually the weirdest and the most unprecedented debate week in history. just to look at the last few days. a few of the candidates seem to be having a hell of a time at the iowa state fair this weekend, good for them.
with fired fox tv host tucker carlson. good day, everyone. i m andrea mitchell in washington. the countdown is on. donald trump, after announcing on social media, he will surrender to the fulton county jail on thursday to be booked on charges including conspiracy and felony racketeering over alleged efforts to overturn georgia s 2020 election results. and there s breaking news now, this hour, in atlanta where john eastman, the legal mastermind of a plan to get vice president mike pence to stop the election count on january 6th, has it turned himself in at the jail to be booked. nbc news has confirmed another co-defendant scott hall, a bail bondsman charged in the coffee county, georgia, data breach was booked in jail with a bond set at $10,000. joining me blayne alexander in atlanta, justice and intelligence correspondent ken dilanian, former u.s. attorney barbara mcquade and former dekalb county district attorney gwen fleming. take us through what we can expect over the ne
do we have any idea what they might be doing? well, logic tells us if they re working on behalf of their biggest and most important client, donald trump, they were on the same floor as the d.a. s office, likely working out the details of what we have seen already from some of these other defendants, bond consent agreements, which is essentially getting the process of, you know, fulton county, it s not an arraignment, but post booking release details worked out. in the case of the other folks whose consent agreements have been posted, it s something like a monetary bond, an agreement not to break the law elsewhere or to talk to or try to intimidate witnesses. the same kinds of things we saw in the special counsel case in washington and in florida. likely with donald trump, as we have seen in all of these other cases, there are other elements to this. there are secret service elements, protections, how he goes to the courthouse or county jail in fulton county. all of these ne
so far we have seen two of the 19 defendants turn themselves in. first was scott hall, a georgia bail bondsman charged in the coffee county election database. second, the grand architect of the coup donald trump s former law john eastman, a key figure in the attempt to overturn the 2020 election. a potential criminal conviction seemingly not deterring eastman from continuing to repeat the lies about the election that led to him being indicted in the first place. outside after he was processed our colleague asked if he believes the election was stolen. he said, yes, absolutely, no question, no question in my mind. eastman surrendered proving that the warning from a white house lawyer was all to press yent. i only want to hear two words out of your mouth from now on, orderly transition. eventually he said, orderly transition. now i said, good, john. now i will give you the best free legal advice you are getting in your life, get a great criminal defense lawyer, you are going