And right now on andrea mitchell reports donald trump getting ready to surrender to the fulton county jail on thursday, as the georgia judge lays down the law, ordering mr. trump not to post or repost threats, warnings or other interference with witnesses or the judicial process. today, john eastman, the alleged legal mastermind of the january 6th plot, turned himself in and was booked, as well as another trump co-defendant scott hall, a local bail bondsman linked to the voter data breach. this hour, our nbc news des moines register poll revealing the major impact the former president s claim that he won the 2020 election is having on likely iowa republican caucus goers. and the first republican debate stage is set with eight trump challengers qualifying for the fox event in milwaukee. who will seize the spotlight? mr. trump tries to counter program in pretaped interview
Made public, and really, that kind of shows that more surrenders are imminent and the terms have been negotiated and now we just have to wait for them to show up at the jail. andrea? and barbara mcquade, focus on john eastman. he s a central figure in the january 6th committee hearings and an unindicted co-conspirator in jack smith s d.c. case. where do you think he stands? could he potentially cooperate, lessen the severity of the charges he s facing? well, today s statement makes him sound quite defiant but cooperators are often defiant before they change their minds and cooperate. he could be a valuable cooperator but i don t know that they need him. the fact that he indicted him suggests they have the evidence they need to prove the case against all 19 defendants. nonetheless statistics tell us 90 to 95% of defendants enter guilty pleas and prosecutors would love to have the assistance of someone on the inside to serve as narrater to bring it all it together and