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
be placed under arrest. i m jake tapper in washington, d.c. and this is the lead. this hour i m joined by my colleague kaitlan collins who s down there outside the fulton county jail. we expect mr. trump to surrender at 7:30 p.m. eastern. that s what he announced he would do, anyway. his motorcade arrived at the newark, new jersey airport in the last hour for his private flight down to atlanta. a number of trump co-defendants also surrendered today including former white house chief of staff and former north carolina congressman mark meadows. and the first trial date in the court has been set. pro-trump lawyer ken cheseboro, who is the alleged architect of the fake electors plot, we re told, cheseboro set to go on trial october 23rd. his team asked for a speedy trial, which is his right in georgia, although donald trump s lawyers oppose the speedy trial. kaitlan, you re down there in georgia outside the jail, fulton county. what is the environment like there? are there a lo
lots and lots. i will be watching. thank, you alex. we now have the first mugshot ever taken of a former president of the united states. here s donald trump s mugshot, which will instantly become the most famous mugshot in the history of photography. the mugshot of the 45th president in the united states will go from tomorrow s newspapers into our history books, where the only presidential mugshot will live for ever. american high school history students will be looking at that photograph for hundreds of years. that mugshot will define the low point in the history of the american presidency. that mugshot will soon be everywhere in our lives. it will be on t-shirts, coffee mugs, napkins, toilet paper. this christmas, you will see people give and receive gifts with that mugshot on them. artists will create their own andy warhol like renditions of that mugshot. we are still publishing biographies of abraham lincoln, 158 years after he was assassinated. we will still be publi
this. good evening, i m rachel maddow. here on msnbc as we begin the special coverage of the arrest and booking a former republican president. donald trump at the fulton county don t atlanta georgia. historic, historic moment. in american politics, american, life and for all the worst reasons. he was indicted two weeks ago. he was given until noon tomorrow, noon friday to surrender or face arrest. he s expected to surrender tonight to be fingerprinted, to have his mugshot taken at the county jail. one of the unexpectedly convenient thinks about having official business to conduct out of jail is that they are open 24/7. 365 days a year. for local jail, they never close. so tonight s events were effectively scheduled at the convenience of the former president himself. he could ve come in at anytime, as long as it was before noon tomorrow. for whatever reason, he chose tonight. and perhaps not coincidentally in primetime. less than 24, hours after all the other candidates runnin
and the atlanta journal-constitution senior editor trump grand jury coverage shannon mccaffrey. i want to get to mark meadows and the jail, but lisa, i have to start with you, these dueling filings, talking about a trial date, october 23rd. d.a. fani willis and kenneth chesebro are in agreement, yeah, that s fine. does that mean we might see a trial with just him or him and a few others as soon as october? reporter: possibly, but in order for donald trump to get out from under that trial date, a judge is first going to have to decide that his case should be severed from the rest of them, and the standard for zef whether state court or federal court, that the prejudice to you in having to sit next to another defendant is so high that you can t get a full and fair trial sits next to them. the fact that trump would rather be on the campaign trail, for example, doesn t constitute that kind of prejudice, nor does the fact that he has other indictments going on simultaneously.