Welcome to the lead, I'm Erica Hill in for Jake Tapper. We begin this hour with breaking

news of flurry of activity in Georgia today, including a brand new legal filing just moments

ago from former White House chief of staff, Mark Meadows. These are live pictures here

of the Fulton County jail. Today, the first of Donald Trump's co-defendants surrendered

and were arrested among them former Trump lawyer John Eastman, who was released after

being processed, fingerprinted, and having his mugshot taken. Scott Hall was actually the

first to turn himself in this morning. Hall was charged over his alleged involvement

in the breach of voting machines. As for Eastman, as you may recall, he served as Trump's

lawyer and advised the former president on ways to stop Congress from certifying the

2020 election results. And as we just mentioned here at the top of the hour, a moment ago

another co-defendant, Mark Meadows, filed a request for an emergency court order. He's

trying to avoid being arrested while he fights to have this case moved from Fulton County

Georgia into federal court. Meadows, Trump, and the other defendants all have until

noon on Friday to turn themselves in. We do expect the former president, though, to do

so before then. In fact, he announced on Truth Social. He'll be going to Atlanta on Thursday

to be arrested. CNN's Caitlin Polens is outside the Fulton County Courthouse talk about

a busy day in Atlanta. Bring us up to speed on all these developments today, Caitlin.

A flurry of activity here, Erica, is putting it likely more like a blizzard, even though

it's quite hot out here in Atlanta. What's happening is that there are 10 defendants that

we know at the least who are negotiating their bond or have negotiated their bond already

with the District Attorney's Office here so that they can be arrested quite smoothly or

hopefully for their hope, smoothly, as they go through the jail system for their arrest.

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