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for eight people gathering to debate in milwaukee. we ll get insight into the political mountain those candidates will have to climb from someone who has been on that debate stage. and a story out of tennessee that is both heartbreaking and creating a political fire storm after republican lawmakers cleared the room in the midst of a tearful legislative session on guns. the latest on their increasingly aggressive efforts pitting them against the families of murdered children. but first, we knew this was coattlming.between the political and legal, and here it is. the first republican debate of the year is tonight. but being overshadowed by what s happening 800 miles away in georgia. that s where the front runner, donald trump, boasts that he ll be, quote, proudly arrested. and using it as a prime time event, planning his arrest at night tomorrow when more people are able to watch it. and even before that, working to pull eyeballs away from the debate tonight. nbc news h ....
correct. tim scott, not a fire breathing mega candidate, to have tim scott got up there and say, they won, i m gonna fire merrick garland. i mean if i or kris wright. first of, all everybody gets their own attorney. also, that s weird. firing the fbi director, who s trump s appointee, okay, also little weird. the reason he asked a peacock on that issue, as irrationally as he did, it s because, in the republican party, there s now, even among non-mega people, this appetite to somehow subject the criminal justice system in the legal system too partisan influence. using this canard that this is joe biden s prosecution, or persecution of his political enemy, and you see even very responsible republicans playing with that particular fire. and it s consequential, and that s the soul of the nation stuff, regardless of this individual man s soul. i should just, say it s also, just for reset purposes, it is nine pm. in atlanta. nine pm on the east coast, where today, former ....
police now identifying the man they say was yelling about a pride flag outside a business, tore it down and killed the store owner. plus smoke billowing across the pacific northwest as wildfires rage in washington state with more than 100 buildings destroyed. and new data on the challenge of fulfilling what is for many the american dream. owning their own home. our nbc news reporters are following all of the latest developments and we start in atlanta where ali vitali has been watching the action at the fulton county jail. you just caught up with one of trump s co-defendants, john eastman give us the latest. reporter: this as eastman was coming out of the jail after surrendering ahead of the friday deadline that fani willis laid out for all defendants here. trump said he won t turn himself in until thursday but we can tell there s progress being made in terms of seeing the co-defendants set consent orders which sets the bond amounts they have to pay once they surren ....
friend, ana cabrera. right now prosecutors have given the ex-president and his codefendants until next friday to surrender. 19 men and women charged with 41 counts in a sweeping 98-page indictment accusing them of trying to overturn georgia s 2020 election results, and accusing them of violating georgia s riccio act, something reserved for gangs and mobsters. it could be the televised trial of the century. if convicted, this could be the only case that trump s indictment so far he could not pardon himself for if he takes back the white house. we have a jam-packed hour filled with reporters and legal analysts, and it starts right now. let s get right to our reporters on the ground in atlanta. msnbc news correspondent, blayne alexander, and garrett haake, and senior legal correspondent, laura jarrett here with us in new york. you have been so closely following this investigation. what unanswered questions are you still looking into? reporter: well, josé, we are l ....
saying this is politically motivated. mr. trump says this politically inspired indictment could have been brought close to three years ago was tailored for placement in the middle of my political campaign, where i am leading all republicans. the former president and various others face charges, including violation of oath and filing false documents, all have been charged with violating georgia s racketeering law, which carries 20 years. defendants include handwriting former white house chief of staff, mark meadows and former attorneys, including rudy giuliani and sydney powell, lists scott mccaffey to preside over the case and join the fulton county superior court earlier this year. hours before the indictment, incomplete document listing the same charges briefly appear said on the fulton county court website before being taken down. my colleague bryan llenas pressed on what happened? i don t work that system, i will not speculate. next question. moved on to the nex ....