for these alleged crimes? well, remember that eastman is unique among all these defendants. his role was 100% that of a lawyer, trying to come up with creative ideas that push the margin of the law in order to reverse the electoral college count. so he s unique. he is on trial for being a lawyer who is coming up with creative ideas. he is unique. and he doesn t and of course trump might say he relied on eastman s advice because he did. eastman was his lawyer. so, i wouldn t call that throwing anybody under the truck. he certainly is making the case that he was unique. today your client said he was targeted for, quote, zealous advocacy on behalf of his client, something that attorneys are ethically bound to provide. i m sure that you are familiar with the federal indictment of former president trump that says
now, if he was to not surrender by friday, yes, he could potentially be detained. that would be something. so we ll be watching to see how this plays out. what are we finding out about what may await former president trump on thursday based on his codefendants who surrendered today? reporter: we saw two of his codefendants surrender today. the cog orify down here in fulton county is that you negotiate a bond agreement and then go through that process of surrender. we saw a bail bondsman and conservative attorney john eastman, they both went through this process. and as part of this process, they were fingerprinted, had to fill out a lot of forms. and then each of them had a mugshot taken. and any minute we could get those mugshots. the former president, his process will be similar with a caveat that he has secret service protection. so it s likely that the facility, the fulton county sheriff s office will be restricted during the time he s in there. that could help him move just a
that on december 31, 2020, your client, john eastman, submitted a filing on trump s behalf, affirming false election fraud allegations in georgia, and that before that eastman, before he filed that according to the document, he acknowledged in an email in writing that he had, quote, been made aware that some of the allegations and evidence proffered by the experts has been inaccurate. and that signing a new affirmation with that knowledge and i m quoting here an incorporation by reference, would not be accurate. does eastman think that he was ethically bound to make those knowingly inaccurate statements in court on behalf of trump? first of all, you used the word knowingly and accurate a little bit loosely. these were way-out theories that could change the result. and eastman was throwing them out. and nobody was threatened, nobody was bribed, nobody was coerced. it is not a crime to try to,
little bit quicker. but the d.a. is adamant that he will be treated like any other defendant. paula reid, thank you so much live for us from atlanta. outfront tonight, john e eastman s attorney is with us. harvey, thank you so much for being with us. can you give us a sense of how it went today as your client turned himself in? completely as predicted. he turned himself in and put up a bond and was released. that is all that was supposed to happen and all that did happen. he had a mugshot taken. any other details you can share with us about the process? no. it was completely unremarkable. eastman made clear in his comments today that he still believes the election was stolen. he is very loyal still to president trump. why is he confident that trump will not hang him out to dry and try to make him the scape goat
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