donald trump and his team are preparing for his arrest. reporter: yeah, jake. this this is going to happen a matter of hours from now. he is hyping the time on his own account. it will happen around 7:30 p.m. jake, one thing, though, that still seems to be not clear to trump s team, is that the idea of whether or not he will have a mug shot. the sheriff has insisted all along every single day that trump will be treated like every other defendants is, which include processing, fingerprinting. we have seen it for everybody else, but i was told as of this morning there were still two people involved in those discussions who said it was not yet clear whether or not there will be a donald trump mug shot. they had been having these ongoing conversations on that. whether or not it happens, if they stick with what the sheriff has been saying, that that will be the case when he arrives in just a matter of hours. that s one detail to remain to be sorted out. and this afternoon, the
the secretary of state, brad raffensperger, who got that notorious phone call from trump to find more votes, released a statement saying quote, the most basic principles of a strong democracy are accountability and respect for the constitution and rule of law. you either have it or you don t. nbc s blaine alexander is following all of the developments out of atlanta. laura jarrett is here along with andrew weissman, former fbi general counsel and former senior member of robert mueller s special counsel. also an msnbc legal analyst. blaine, i want to ask you about the judge in this case. what do we know about him? reporter: yeah. a couple of things, one, this came as a surprise to those of us who have been watching and following this case for quite some time because there has been a single judge who all along had been handling all of the developments from top to bottom. he was the one who was on the bench last night when the indictment was unsealed. that judge is not going
do i tend to try the 19 defendants, yes. the calendar is getting quite crowded. you see some of the lawyers on whose advice she this is disgraceful and abuse of power by angry democrats who decided the rule of law it s much bigger than watergate. it goes to the foundation of democracy. this is very different and much more serious and much more troubling. if you are just waking up this morning, we re glad you re with us. you re waking up to significant, historic news. it s true. donald trump has been indicted again, this on felony charges for trying to overturn his 2020 election loss in the state of georgia and has 18 codefendants have also been charged. including some of the prominent names, mark meadows, rudy giuliani. they re all facing rico, racketeering charges. fulton county district attorney fani willis ordered trump and his alleged coconspirators to surrender voluntarily by next friday and turn themselves in. rather than abide by georgia s legal pro
i don t think spying is the right way to describe it. i have seen no evidence that the chinese government has access to the data. they ve never asked us. i find that actually preposterous. american data has always been stored in virginia and singapore in the past and access of this is on an as required basis. as required by engineers for by engineers, bytedance and the communist party. no, no. lawmakers grilled tiktok s ceo over hours on user data and the company s connection to the chinese government. we ll have much more from that contentious hearing just ahead. plus, while no movement from the grand jury, there was a busy day outside the courtroom in manhattan during the hush money investigation with the d.a. s office calling out house republicans and donald trump ranting about the prince harry prosecutor and also ahead, the latest on a drone strike in syria that has killed at least one american and injured a handful of u.s. service members. good morn
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