this. good evening, i m rachel maddow. here on msnbc as we begin the special coverage of the arrest and booking a former republican president. donald trump at the fulton county don t atlanta georgia. historic, historic moment. in american politics, american, life and for all the worst reasons. he was indicted two weeks ago. he was given until noon tomorrow, noon friday to surrender or face arrest. he s expected to surrender tonight to be fingerprinted, to have his mugshot taken at the county jail. one of the unexpectedly convenient thinks about having official business to conduct out of jail is that they are open 24/7. 365 days a year. for local jail, they never close. so tonight s events were effectively scheduled at the convenience of the former president himself. he could ve come in at anytime, as long as it was before noon tomorrow. for whatever reason, he chose tonight. and perhaps not coincidentally in primetime. less than 24, hours after all the other candidates runnin
Some people on both sides, and lots of media around at the fulton county jail today. you are not seeing disorder around this. i was worried about that, i have to tell you, personally, when we saw rudy giuliani yesterday. when he turned himself in and then tried to make remarks to reporters and there is a physical rush around him and chaos, it is not an entertaining thing to see and there is no justice in that for anybody. it was not good, and it did not vote well for this much higher stakes moment. what you are describing is requiring a lot of communication. it doesn t just happen that there is order. it means they were talking all day every day. trump has advanced people and we re talking around the clock to fani willis s team. fani willis made public facing statements to the authority in fulton county about making sure that there are not other trials in the courtroom, talking about court staff, district attorney staff working from home, setting out the timeframe well in advance
Whether he can move this out of state, quite into federal. quite a, and fani willis is calling it brad raffensperger to be a part of that. hearing and two other lawyers, or on the infamous january 2nd call with donald trump. she is amassing her people to make the case that mark meadows was absolutely not functioning in any sort of federal role when he was involved in, whatever we want to college. the potential racketeering down in georgia. and that he very much belongs in the state court. but you could see just with the speed at which he has called these witnesses to testify in this hearing that s not all happening on monday that she is not messing around. and by the way, she got it all locked away to. go and most people, who have come, in have bonded out immediately. and then we get there mugshots, and then their mugshot are famous. it s all over social media. and one guy did not find that immediately. i m not sure what if we can update. that but harrison floyd, he is the black ve
You re gonna walk in that, jail just like any other person that s accused of being criminal in my jurisdiction. you re gonna get that mugshot. meadows fabio hot to not get the mugshot guess, what everybody gets the mugshot. she s been winning in court. he s had to go to court, 2 to 3 times. early, and she s prevailed on the date or kenneth chesebro should she went off. she proposed, october 30, first, today and will dinner. faber and she s, prevailed so far in the middle. skates and he wanted to wait until his proceeding with this. case so she is already, i, mean, along long process. she is betting 1000 in front of judges. and you know, we don t know, you can t tell what s going on inside of a prosecution, or inside. out any criminal investigation except for what they say in court. except for what they publicly right. which is the way it should, be it s part of the process. but there was a, sensor fani willis s investigation that she was telegraphing a very long time in advance t
Coming, and that she was prepared, and she described it as imminent a long time before she finally brought her probably gave a lot of imminent. yes, exactly, but i think it probably gave people a lot of, oh boy, they acquired what. boy is this ever gonna happen? i keep hearing it s gonna happen. but part of that may have been that she was getting ready to try the case. not just to start the process of indicting, and start the process of motion. because she knew that this was gonna happen. we re gonna talk a little bit later on this hour about the other sort of peace in the, hold that republicans have given themselves and. georgia for the potential way to remove fani willis from this case. something they ve already signaled, they re going to try to do as early as october. so, that may also be part of why she s thinking about the clock ticking. her and why she may be ready to move faster than anybody else was expecting for all of this process. she is absolutely coming to. play ther