it is surrender day for donald trump and first on cnn we ve learned the ex-president has replaced his top georgia attorney just hours before he s going to head to atlanta to be arrested. request denied. a federal judge tells two of trump s georgia co-defendants they will be arrested in the state s election subversion case, no way around it. and they have just one more day to surrender. who won? who lost? what is the one line people will remember? what is the one line a candidate most wishes he or she could forget? we re starting to see the impact of the first republican debate. i m john berman with kate bolduan and sara sidner. this is cnn news central. quite a day ahead. hours from now former president donald trump is going to leave his bedminster golf club in new jersey, travel to a jail in georgia where he will surrender to charges accusing him of running a criminal enterprise to stay in power. 964 days have now passed since trump demanded of that man, brad raffe
Another criminal indictment but i am told they are going to, once again, capitalize on the mediaairive, taking the wind out of the sales of the candidates on the debate stage. however we know he s going to pass us by in a few hours. he s going to be processed in the evening in atlanta, straight trip is in this and out and possibly talk to reporters traveling with him. great to have you there thank you so much, kristen. donald trump s former chief of staff and exjustice department official will be arrested in georgia s election subversion case. a judge rejected the request by mark meadows and jeffrey clark to be booked at the fulton county jail. they now have just under 27 hours to turn themselves in. katelyn polantz has been following this story. they were doing two things one trying to keep themselves from being booked but two trying to move their case from the state