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
jansing reports. the scene outside the georgia jail, so much happening already today, that of course where donald trump will surrender just a few hours from now. the sheriff promising no special treatment, arrested, booked, finger printed, height and weight noted with a new lawyer ready to fight charges that he tried to overturn the election. plus, the fulton county d.a. reveals the date she wants for trial as a parade of trump codefendants continue to turn themselves in. and new developments with two big names charged in the case. mark meadows and jeffrey clark losing their bids to avoid arrest with their bonds now set at $100,000. and the elephant not in the room, how eight republican candidates responded when asked would they support trump as the nominee if he s convicted. our nbc news reporters are following all of the latest developments. we begin with the breaking news from the d.a. s office about a proposed trial date for donald trump and his codefendants. vaughn hi
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
developments. we begin with the big reprieve. lowering donald trump s bond in the landmark civil fraud case. nbc s tom winter is following that for us. we know why this decision is made, and how big of a deal is it for the former president, tom. right, chris. it s the first appellate division who will ultimately hear his appeal of that big 450 plus million dollars discouragement that he is facing. they re the ones that have lowered this down to $175 million and given him ten days to be able to try and get that bond. there s also some other decisions that were associated with it, as far as who can do business and when in the state of new york. there s some indication from the filings here, chris, that they re not going to hear arguments on this, perhaps until the september 2024 term. this will not be sussed out until at least then, at least it appears in the initial reading of this document. as far as what it ultimately means for trump, certainly the ability to get 175 milli
now part of trump s rogue s gallery of georgia codefendants who are being booked, fingerprinted, and getting lovely mug shots to place above their mantles. courtesy of the fulton county sheriff s office. also tonight, stunning news out of russia. as yevgeny prigozhin, the man who led the june mutiny against the kremlin is now believed to be dead in a plane crash. plus, debate night in milwaukee. trump won t be there. can any of the others prove they are legitimate threat to his renomination? we begin tonight, however, with the truth and consequences. the truth being that there was no wide-spread voter fraud during the 2020 presidential election. and that the actions taken by donald trump and his gang took a long walk off a short pier going from the legal to the criminal. that leads us to the consequences that we are now seeing play out this week, as one by one, the 19 co-defendants in the georgia case are making their way to a fulton county jail to surrender. as you can