Im paula reid. Welcome to cnns special coverage of the 2024 election. The first debate and the surrender of former President Trump in georgia. We are on the cusp of a historic week for the nation and a pivotal week for the 2024 race. First, the former president and the latest indictment. Donald trump faces a friday deadline at noon to turn himself in to authorities in Fulton County, georgia. The result of his fourth criminal indictment. A senior Law Enforcement official tells cnn trump is expected to turn himself in thursday at the earliest. That would be just one day after the first debate of the 2024 president ial race which will take place without trump, who is the frontrunner for the repuican nomination. Just hours ago, he made it official, he wont attend. Now, the eht candidates who will attend all trail trump by doubledigit margins, and all of them are running out of time if they hope to catch him. Let me turn now to cnn senior crime and justice reporter, katelyn polantz. Katelyn
Right now on Andrea Mitchell reports, crossing the line. The judge in Donald Trumps Hush Money Trial Admonishing the former president s legal team during a hearing today to determine whether mr. Trump repeatedly violated a gag order when attacking witnesses and jurors. The judge has not yet ruled on whether to fine the former president as prosecutors are requesting. Plus, back on the stand. The first witness answering more questions today as prosecutors try to establish the timeline of what they call Donald Trumps orchestrated Criminal Scheme to turn the 2016 election. How mr. Trump is reacting while sitting just feet away. And the u. S. Supreme court preparing to hear mr. Trumps claims of president ial immunity. Retired Justice Stephen breyer joins me on his new book Reading The Constitution as well as the conflicting legal philosophies now dividing the court. Good day, everyone. Im Andrea Mitchell in washington. At the Hush Money Trial in new york today, judge juan merchan coming dow
about our democracy and the need for a peaceful transfer of power. you know, we use largely venezuelan voting machines in essence to count our votes. if we let this happen, we ll become venezuela. he is too smart to believe some of the non-sense that he s been spouting. you know, the monkey business with the ballots and venezuela being involved. i mean this is just nutty stuff. fast forward to hair dye running down his face. and so the only evidence that rudy has uncovered is he s not a natural brunette. i can tell you the second he saw that line of makeup or hair gel or whatever the hell it was oozing off of his head, that donald trump, a man with more than a passing acquaintance with makeup, immediately wrote rudy off. you know the legal strategy
we haven t seen a lot of appetite by the doj to actually look to the inner circle of trump. they charged 700 people but those were lower level people, so we ll see about that. the other thing is what they were doing was certainly an attempted coup. what these texts are about is the legal part of it. in other words, they re actually trying, within the processes set up to certify the voters, to stop that from happening. they won t be charged based on that. they would have to, instead, know about the illegal way to do the attack. are there legal underpinnings? what jim jordan forwarded onto mark meadows, is there something legitimate there? no, that memo was a piece of garbage. nobody with a passing acquaintance with the law, and jim jordan, as far as i can tell, i don t think he s a lawyer. i was told he went to law school but never passed the bar, sbut he s a lawmaker and could bypass the code. alexander hamilton at one point said something that is
he will deal with a new team. came in and hillary clinton secretary of state, inherited bob gates of secretary of defense and kept him. inherited petraeus. chris: as someone who has more than a passing acquaintance with scandals where do you think the so-called libya scandal is now? i think there are serious unanswered questions. that they should have watergate style independent commissions to investigate this, i don t see it yet. the question is what did susan rice know and when did she know it? that is not high on the scale of we need to get to bottom of this. i think we will find out what happened. i think we should. you never know what this is