glad you re with us. it is a big day. glad i have victor black well by my side. we re here. we have a lot the to get to. five things to know for this thursday, august 24th. donald trump is expected to surrender in georgia. this will be the fourth time he s turning himself in to be arrested. he faces charges to overturn the georgia election. the fist gop primary debate, 6) of the 8 candidates rauzed their hand when they would ask if they would support trump;í a the nominee. vivek ramaswamy finds himself in the spotlight. he was the center attention at center stage last night and sparred with a lot of candidates and contentious exchanges on issues including the war in ukraine. nikki haley challenging her rivals on abortion rights, clashes with mike pence and arguing a federal abortion ban is not politically realistic. there are new questions about
in the cards. and new questions about wagner chief yevgeny prigozhin presumed dead in a plane crash just two months after he led a rebellion against vladimir putin. new eyewitnesses sharing accounts about what they saw and heard during that crash. cnn this morning starts early right now. so we ll get to the debate in a moment, but there was so much energy on that stage and trump wasn t even there. a lot of energy and they didn t really get to trump until maybe the midway point. an hour in. 9:58. i was counting. all right. in we ll get to all the highlights from the debate, the news made. we have some of the candidates on the program this morning. but we begin with this, just hours from now, donald trump will be arrested for the fourth time after being a no-show at last night s republican presidential debate. take a look. before the sun comes up, these are live pictures of the fulton
abortion rights, pence and haley clashed oifr the best way forward. let s be honest with the american people and say it will take 60 senate votes, a majority of the house. so in order to do that, let s find consensus. to be honest with you, you re my friend, but consensus is the opposite of leadership. when the supreme court returned this question to the american people, they didn t just sendóxt to the states only. it s not a states-only issue, it s a moral issue. reporter: thing to note, ron desantis, his team really set the stage before last night s debate saying he was going to be the one taking all of this incoming because of his second place standing ing5te polling, but really you saw in the story there we just aired, it was vivek ramaswamy who took so mucht ron desantis was allowed to stick to hissp mess skpaj what wanted to talk about. and not have to get out of that or take those attacks.
not just last night, but what will happen today in georgia. veh let s start with five things to know. just hours from now donald trump is expected to surrender at the fulton county jail in georgia, this will be the fourth time that he has turned himself in for arrests in a criminal case in just five months. this time he faces charges for efforts to overturn joe biden s victory in georgia. trump s gop rivals addressed his legal battle last night at the first gop primary debate, six of the eight candidates raised their hand when asked if they would still support trump as nominee if convicted. this morning vivek ramaswamy finds himself in the spotlight. he was center stage last night and sparred with a lot of the candidates. some contentious exchangeses on some of the issues including the war in ukraine. nikki haley challenging her rivals on abortion rights, crashing with former vice president mike pence arguing a federal ban is not politically
taken out critics for much lesser offenses than that prigozhin was guilty of. the fact he was at liberty for two months startled many. this is putin thinking that prigozhin remained a threat and deciding risk angering those who believed in prigozhin by this particular decision. the final facts are unclear, but a remarkable moment in putin s russia. certainly is, thank you. prigozhin s plane crash up last night. here s nikki haley. look at what putin did today. he killed >1i■eprigozhin. when i was at the u.n., the russian ambassador suddenly died. this guy is a murder. joining us is foreign affair4 columnist bobby gauche and national security analyst david sanger. welcome to you. i ll start with ):you, bobby. the president says he doesn t