Trump expected to skip debate and do interview with Tucker Carlson instead

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🗓️ 19 August 2023

⏱️ 43 minutes

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Sources tell CNN that former President Trump is planning to skip the first Republican presidential debate and instead do an interview with former Fox News host Tucker Carlson. The debate falls in the same week that Trump will turn himself in to the Fulton County jail after being indicted for a fourth time, this time in Georgia. Conservative lawyer George Conway tells Anderson Cooper if he thinks the former President skipping the debate is a good idea for his campaign and legal troubles. Plus, CNN Chief Climate Correspondent joins AC360 from Lahaina, Hawaii where the search efforts continue. At least 111 people have died from the wildfires in Maui and there’s a possibility of more than 1,000 are still missing.

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0:00.0	Tonight on 360, first, a cancel press conference now, apparently a debate no-show, what's behind
0:06.8	the former president's sudden attack of reticence, that and news on when he'll surrender
0:11.0	in Georgia.
0:12.0	Also, tonight, a CNN exclusive meet the Trump advisor who took the fifth when asked
0:15.7	what he was doing January 6th, well, tonight, we know what he was doing and with whom.
0:21.1	And later, what Hurricane Hillary could have in store for Southern California, which
0:24.5	is bracing for its first storm, this magnitude since 1939.
0:29.7	Good evening.
0:30.7	Thanks for joining us.
0:31.7	The former president is expected to turn himself in at the Fulton County Jail in Atlanta
0:34.5	next Thursday or Friday, that according to a senior law enforcement official with knowledge
0:38.8	of the surrender.
0:40.4	Friday is the deadline for all 19 defendants.
0:43.4	Trump, his former chief of staff, served with his lawyers, a top justice department official
0:47.0	and others all being booked, fingerprinted, and with probably the exception of the president,
0:51.8	former president photographed.
0:53.5	In the last two days, the former president is backed out of opportunities to be seen
0:57.1	by millions of television viewers.
0:59.0	Yesterday, canceled that press conference.
1:01.0	He denounced for Monday to repeat lies about election fraud in Georgia, what he calls
1:05.4	irrefutable evidence of fraud.
1:07.5	Today, we learned he's planning, as of now, to skip next week's Republican debate on
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