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Hey, good morning. I'm Playbook Deputy Editor Zach Stanton. It's Friday, August 25th, and here's what's driving the day.

Last night, former President Donald Trump surrendered to Georgia authorities at Fulton County

Jail to be booked on racketeering and other criminal charges related to his efforts to overturn

the 2020 election.

Unlike the other three times he's been booked this year on criminal charges, a mugshot

was taken, which you can expect to see repeatedly in the days and weeks ahead wielded for political purposes

both by Trump's critics, who will point to it as further evidence of his unsuitability

for high office, and by his supporters.

Trump's own campaign already used fake mugshots from prior bookings in fundraising appeals

and campaign merchandise, and you can expect to see

the actual mugshot on Trump T-shirts someday very soon. Meanwhile, on the campaign trail,

initial assessments of the fallout from the first Republican debate suggest a couple things.

First, that there was a genuine interest in the debate.

Fox News announced yesterday that across its platforms it notched around 12.8 million viewers,

which is more than many initial estimates thought was likely.

And you could look at that number and say, you know, oh, that is less than, say, the first

primetime January 6th committee

hearing, which got around 20 million viewers. But unlike that, the debate was only carried

live on one channel, Fox News, which is a cable channel, not a mainstream network like the Jan 6

hearings, and it deprived it as a result of that same sort of level of ubiquity.

12.8 million viewers is a very strong number for any show really nowadays, but certainly any

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