federal court to throw out the state charges there in georgia. what s his argument? what s the rationale? reporter: well, he s arguing that he was working as an official and the only reason he did anything after the 2020 election for donald trump was because he was chief of staff at the white house, that he was a public official. right now mark meadows has been very aggressive in getting into court, specifically trying to get his case moved to federal court and also asking over the weekend for his case and his charges in georgia that he now faces to be dismissed. he s pointed out to the court he s not charged in the federal case in d.c. where the justice department has charged donald trump. he s not even a co-conspiritor there and, thus, because what he was doing for trump in the white house was part of his official duties, that all should get tossed. this mark meadows situation is important to watch because we could pick up on how he may split from trump and already is not in coordi
turn themselves in at the fulton county jail. we re told trump is expected to show up either thursday or friday. caitlyn polan is live. it will be a long week, i suppose, waiting for him to come, but also just imagining 19 people coming to be processed for this. reporter: it s a lot of people, but we re going to be watching for all of them to report to the jail ultimately to turn themselves in on the grand jury arrest warrants. poppy and victor, thursday and friday are not going to be the only activity if they were to wait to that deadline of when they must turn themselves in to the jail to be arrested, processed, have some wait time inside the jail getting fingerprinted, getting searched, all of the things that you do when you are a criminal defendant now in the system here in georgia. before that, we re likely to see activity as soon as today because there will be lawyers
that want to negotiate on behalf of their clients even before their clients come in so that can be as seamless as possible when the arrests do happen at the jail. this jail is a very populated jail. it has about 2500 people in it. it s also a place that s been quite beleaguered over time. it has quite a bit of issues historically with the treatment of different people who are being held there in detention and so nobody wants to spend very much time in the jail at all so to get around that or make that as seamless as possible, there are going to be different lawyers coming in to meet with the district attorney here, fani willis, near the courthouse where her offices would be. that s what we expect at least. whenever they negotiate, they will negotiate essentially bail terms to make everything go very smoothly and also to get them to that arraignment as quickly as possible as well. so, caitlyn, one of the 19, trump s former chief of staff, mark meadows, is asking a
former boss. interesting to see how many people follow his move to do that, not just the move to federal court but trying to get it dismissed. caitlyn, thank you. brand-new poll just came out in iowa ahead of the first republican primary debate. have criminal indictments had any effect on donald trump s latest commanding lead? president biden and the first lady prepare to visit the scene of america s deadliest wildfire in over a century. so as we stand overlooking the town, we were seeing clouds of dust coming up from some of the heavy machinery. it s so heartbreaking to realize that dust holds people s children, parents, neighbors, loved ones. and this futurure champ. and if we proffer it, we knonow you ll proffer it to. he s cocky for a nineteen year old.d. hit it it takes two to make a thing go right it takes two to make it outta sight
house and that the house was going after for months and finally won that supreme court case that gave them access. just incredible. never mind the presidential records act violation there, just the image of some soul that has to piece back together all of these documents is just incredible. caitlyn, thank you. to the tensions now between russia and ukraine. u.s. secretary of state antony blinken about to have a crucial phone call with the russian foreign minister sergei lavrov. he ll hopefully dial down those tensions over russia s military buildup which almost surrounds ukraine. that tension on public display at the u.n. translator: since our american colleagues convened yesterday, let them show us any evidence apart from bogus narratives that russia is ip tend intending to attack ukraine. if russia invades ukraine, none of us will be able to say we didn t see it coming and the