Good morning, I'm Taylor Wilson, and this is five things you need to know Friday the 25th of August, 2023.

Today I look at Trump's surrender in Atlanta, plus mortgage rates reached their highest since 2001, and the Idaho murder trial has been delayed.

Former president Donald Trump was arrested last night at Fulton County, jail in Atlanta on charges that he tried to steal the 2020 election.

It's the fourth criminal case he faces while campaigning for president again next year.

I caught up with USA Today National Political Correspondent Philip M. Bailey after Trump's surrender in Georgia.

Philip, welcome back to the show. How are you? Hey, man, how are you? Good, thanks. So local authorities had said Trump would be treated like any other defendant.

Was that true yesterday in Atlanta? Well, look, as far as the process is concerned. Yeah, I mean, Donald Trump.

It was treated like all of his other co-defendants and pretty much anyone else who is arrested or booked in the Fulton County jail.

He was processed. He was given plenty of opportunity to turn himself in. He went through the fingerprinting process. He took a mug shot.

But let's be honest, he isn't like anyone else who's ever turned themselves in. He's a former president of the United States, and he's facing now 91 different criminal counts across four jurisdictions.

And this was the first time his booking photo was taken in these other situations. It was not not in the one in Manhattan.

Not the two federal charges he's facing. This was the first time where you see a mug shot of him.

Again, we've said this before how unprecedented these moments are. They keep happening over and over again. But this is another one. I mean, we have a booking photo of a former president of the United States. That's never happened.

But during the process, it was unlike others because even the other co-defendants and other regular American citizens. I mean, there was heightened security every law enforcement agency in the area. I mean, I saw the Morehouse police were down there, right?

Not just the Atlanta police and the sheriffs, but multiple agencies. The level of attention on this and how much this system is now being stretched because I think of it this way.

I think of the legal justice system like an anaconda. I've seen an anaconda swallow a deer. I've seen it swallow a rabbit.

And I even reports that swallowing the alligator and a human being. I've never seen an anaconda swallow an elephant and a former president going through our legal justice system.

Yeah, he's being treated like everyone else, but the weight of a former president right going through this process is unforeseen.

So I don't know if we can say he was treated like everyone else in the way that it happened.

And Philip, you're there in Georgia in terms of the scene outside the jail and across Atlanta, you've painted some of this picture for us. But I mean, were there protesters, a media frenzy? What was the scene like?

I think that frenzy, bedlam, mayhem, circus, do not adequately describe what I've witnessed both on the day that Rudy Giuliani turned himself in and when president Trump turned himself in.

And this is a a seriousness to this, but also a kind of circus atmosphere to it as well. Many people who were down there, pro and against Trump.

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