Mark Meadows asks for court order to avoid arrest in Georgia

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🗓️ 23 August 2023

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Former president’s ex-chief of staff Mark Meadows has asked for an emergency court order that would prevent District Attorney Fani Willis from arresting him if he doesn’t surrender to the Fulton County jail by the Friday deadline. Meadows is one of the 19 co-defendants that were indicted, along with the former president. Trump is accused of being the head of a “criminal enterprise” that was part of a conspiracy to overturn the 2020 election. Former Assistant U.S. Attorney Elie Honig tells Anderson Cooper how this Georgia indictment could complicate things if Meadows is cooperating with special counsel Jack Smith’s election interference investigation. Plus, CNN Political Commentator Van Jones and former Republican political consultant Stuart Stevens join AC360 to discuss the first GOP primary debate.

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0:00.0	Good evening, tonight on 360, there's breaking news, new subpoenas go out as the first two
0:05.6	defendants surrender in Atlanta and the former president prepares to upstage the Republican
0:09.5	debate and turn himself in Thursday.
0:12.0	Also tonight, what a new filing in the Mar-a-Lago documents case reveals about a key witness
0:16.2	is a key witness, apparently, changing testimony.
0:19.4	Later, what could have been a cable car catastrophe?
0:22.8	One of the cables snapped and the carful of kids was dangling hundreds of feet above
0:26.2	ground for hours.
0:27.8	The remarkable rescue caught on tape.
0:30.2	Good evening.
0:31.2	Thanks for joining us.
0:32.2	We begin in Georgia with breaking news in this week's surrender of 19 defendants.
0:35.4	Late today, we learn that Rudy Giuliani, the man who once served as U.S. attorney for
0:39.0	the prestigious Southern District of New York, has not been able to find a lawyer to represent
0:43.8	him in Georgia.
0:45.1	So far, two people have turned themselves in, John Eastman, an attorney who allegedly
0:49.0	devised the fake electroskeam and Scott Hall, charged in connection with the voting machine
0:53.4	breached by Trump supporters in January 2021.
0:56.8	The woman who let people in to breach those machines, Kathy Latham, seen here on surveillance
1:01.8	video, opening the door for them, she reached a bond agreement today.
1:06.1	Eleven other defendants have now done the same.
1:09.0	Two others took action today trying to derail the entire process.
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