Right now save up to 900 off mattress sets during purples labor day sale. Visit purple. Com or a Mattress Firm near you. Deadline to surrender. Donald trump and his 18 codefendants in georgia must turn themselves in to the Fulton County jail this week. What were learning about when they will actually show up in atlanta as the former president says he will not show up to this weeks gop debate. A wet and muddy mess in california. The southwest cleaning up from rain and flooding after historic tropical storm. We are tracking the impacts and the lingering threat. And soon President Biden will arrive in hawaii to see the aftermath of deadly wildfires. Some residents criticizing the official response so far, with hundreds of people still missing on maui. Were following these major developing stories and many more all coming in right here to cnn news central. We begin this hour in georgia. Today Donald Trumps Defense Attorneys are expected to negotiate his bond terms with the Fulton County d.
That allows the process of removing a case from state court to federal, sure, you have to basically prove that you re working in your capacity furthering the interests of the government, so to speak. and i think that s going to be very difficult for him to prove. i think ultimately this may just be a strategy that he s using for jury shopping. i think he s trying to say all right, well, if i stay in fulton county we know that typically atlanta may have blue, may not necessarily be in their favor, whereas you go to the northern district, the federal forum, you re going to have a much wider jury pool to choose from. he is here in atlanta. i believe he still has to turn himself in at jail. there are a couple of other defendants who haven t been turned in in the process. i do think one of the interesting things seeing all of these folks try to move their case to federal court or what we saw from ken cheseboro today, which was moving for a speedy trial, it s going to be really hard for fa
Already at odds with one another for the reasons i just said. the other aspect of this of course is the jury you might get. you might want demographicwise, maybe the district of georgia the north as opposed to the primarily democratic-voting fulton county perhaps as your motivation for that. that s jury shopping, though. and we don t want that in our system of justice. also, to prove that you actually could be removed, remember, you ve got to prove to the judge, and that federal judge is far more seasoned, frankly, than the new judge that s been assigned and appointed nominated by governor brian kemp more recently that has the case right now. it would put the prosecutors in a bit of unfamiliar, uncharted federal territory although they are able to do both. but there s really a rock and a hard place. federal courts are not meant for the faint of heart. the laws, the evidentiary burdens, all that s going to be very, very important. so if you choose that, it might be out of the frying p