We have to stop meeting like this. Good evening. I'm Rachel Maddo here at MSNBC as we begin

special coverage of the arrest and booking of former Republican President Donald Trump

at the Fulton County Jail in Atlanta, Georgia, a historic, historic moment in American

politics and an 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 things about having official business to conduct at a

jail is that they're open 24-7, 365 days a year. Your local jail, they never close. So

tonight's events were effectively scheduled at the convenience of the former president himself.

He could have come in at any time as long as it was before noon tomorrow. For whatever

reason, he chose tonight, perhaps not coincidentally, in prime time, less than 24 hours after all

the other candidates running against him for the Republican nomination for president held

their well-watched first debate. The former president is facing a felony racketeering charge

and a dozen other felony counts in Georgia all related to what the indictment described

as a conspiracy to unlawfully change the outcome of the 2020 election in favor of Trump.

Now, if you're keeping track at home, that's a Republican presidential frontrunner who

has been impeached twice, whose business was found guilty of criminal tax evasion and fraud,

who paid $25 million to settle a fraud suit about a fake Trump university who had his fake

charity find $2 million in shutdown for fraud, who was ordered to pay $5 million to a woman

that a jury found he sexually abused, and there may be more to come there. This fall, he's

facing a $250 million civil lawsuit for additional alleged business fraud, and he is personally

facing 91 felony criminal charges in four jurisdictions, including this latest one, where

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