fantastic job, i have to tell you. fantastic job. but it s a very sad experience, and it is a very sad day for our country. donald trump talking about his arrest last night in fulton county. he s now officially inmate number pz1135809. we ll have all the new developments out of georgia. good morning. welcome to morning joe. it is friday, august 25th. for the first time in american history, a former president of the united states has taken a mug shot. donald trump surrendered at the fulton county jail yesterday where he was given an inmate number and fingerprinted. he was weighed. trump was processed on 13 felony charges over alleged efforts to overturn the 2020 presidential election. the former president was released on $200,000 bond shortly after. he is now using his mug shot to solicit campaign donations. on x, formerly twitter, trump posted the mug shot and links to his website. the campaign is selling shirts saying, never surrender, with the picture on it, even th
defendants up to and including violent crimes where stabbings are frequent. actually three people have lost their lives over the last month. that jail is where the disgraced ex-president of these united states is heading right now. just let me get one, two, three, four times in four months that the ex-president of the united states will walk in and out of a jail house to begin the process of answering for his alleged crimes. this one is a little different for a few reasons including nis. we are very likely to see a mug shot of donald trump sometime today or tomorrow. mere hours ago he replaced the lawyer that previously led the defense in georgia. you can make up your own mind whether that s a good or bad defense for him. and what about the chief of staff. mark meadows surrendered himself to authorities in fulton county a short time ago. remember as meadows is still seeking to bump this trial up to the federal level to take it out of district attorney fani willis hands argui
conduct was problematic enough, if she does say, nathan wade has to go. quote, an odor of mendacity remains, as long as wade remains on the case, this unnecessary perception will persist. what will the d.a. fani willis say to that? we re waiting on her response. what we re not waiting on is donald trump s legal response. his lawyer is vowing to keep fighting for willis removal or the end of the case entirely. which he says, quote, should never have been brought in the first place. our reminder, the sweeping indictment accused trump and 18 codefendants of collaborating to overturn georgia s 2020 election, through a pressure campaign, fals claims about voter fraud, and fake electors. joining me now, nbc s blayne alexander who is outside of the court in atlanta, former assistant director, the manhattan district attorney s office, msnbc legal analyst katherine christian, and msnbc legal correspondent, lisa ruben. everybody, welcome. blayne alexander, i will start with you. you
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
happened. he shouldn t be surprised and no one else should be surprised. he shouldn t be surprised, nobody else should be surprised, anybody that has followed this story at all, unless they re reading about it on, i don t know, websites run by chinese cults, would know that. everybody around donald trump warned him at the time, if you do this, if you keep moving forward, you are going to be fighting the law for the rest of your life. that was former attorney general bill barr, knowing something about that, making it clear that donald trump has nobody to blame but himself for his many legal troubles because he was warned all along that all of this could happen. good morning. welcome to morning joe. i want to jump right in here. it s friday, august 18th. we ve got the host of way too early white house bureau chief jonathan lemire, former white house press secretary under president biden, now a host, jen psaki and former white house press secretary under president obama ro