Correspondent bryan llenas is at the Fulton County courthouse in atlanta, tonight, with the latest. Good evening, bryan. Bret, good evening. The Fulton County sheriff says he intends to really treat former President Donald Trump just like any other criminal defendant and that includes a mugshot, unless he is told otherwise. Mr. Trump must turn himself in by next friday august 25th at noon. I make decisions in this office based on the facts and the law. The law is completely nonpartisan. Fulton County District attorney fani willis, a democrat defending her decision to prosecute former President Donald Trump and 18 others after they were indicted by a grand jury late monday night. It is now the duty of my office to prove these charges. Trump is facing 13 criminal counts, including violating georgias antiracketeering or ricco law. If convicted, the law carries a penalty of a minimum of five years in prison, a 25,000s fine, or both. Lawyers say georgias ricco law is unusually broad and in
So humiliatingly so they had to abandon it in open court when that one question was asked. the man s whose office green lit that plea deal after sham investigation is now the special counsel. that underscores, i think, the problematic nature of that appointment by merrick garland ohio suspect did exactly what he meant to do and knows what he is doing. bret: reporters in the white house briefing room have asked these questions, a couple of them. francesca, the president has not talked about this at all. shouted questions and kept walking. this also goes back to what we were talking about. he doesn t want to talk about this either. they don t want to get involved in this. they referred questions to president biden s personal attorney. bret: one had to step away because he is a potential witness about this plea deal agreement situation. sorry to interrupt. that s absolutely right. they referred it to the personal attorneys. we also heard them take a slightly more aggressive tone ove
Betsy, what do we know about the two developments? more documents and executive privilege denied. and some facetime with miller. we know that in recent months the committee just gotten inundated with documents that the white house counsel s office green lit to be sent over. just the volume is extraordinary and it is something that s unusual even by congressional investigation standards. they have to go through them with a solve basically. it is a ton of material and it is going to give them a lot, lot, lot of work to do. what we know about miller, of course, is that the chairman of the select committee has signaled a biggest thing to ask him about is the alternate electors scheme and the viewers are familiar with. the idea of sending sort of parallel electors to vote for trump instead of biden for the