watch highlights from today's show online. thank you for the privilege of your time. andrea mitchell picks up with more news right now. right now on "andrea mitchell reports," the mug shot that made history. a defiant donald trump at the notorious fulton county jail. an arrest that took just 20 minutes, but it clearly left its mark. >> what has taken place here is a travesty of justice. i did nothing wrong. everybody knows it. the political fallout as the president -- the former president's primary rivals react to his latest legal bombshells. the trump campaign tries to cash in on that mug shot. in russia, the kremlin denying any involvement in the catastrophic plane explosion that vladimir putin says killed prigozhin, as the kremlin says it is investigating.

u.s. officials say it was no accident. new video shows the wing of the plane found two miles away. ♪♪ good day, everyone. i'm andrea mitchell in washington. we have passed the noon eastern deadline set by d.a. willis for president trump and his 18 co-defendants to surrender at the fulton county jail. the former president did his motorcade arriving quickly, got his mug shot inside, after his team posted his description saying he is 6'3" and weighs 215 pounds, considerably less than his last revealed white house physical. he was out the door in 21 minutes. before taking off, denied any wrongdoing. >> we did nothing wrong at all. we have every right -- every single right to challenge an

election that we think is dishonest. >> blayne alexander is in atlanta. have all 19 of the co-defendants turned themselves in? what happens next? >> reporter: they have. all 19 have officially been booked in the fulton county jail. the last one just within the past hour. steven lee was the final to turn himself in. we have officially head the deadline. there are no arrest warrants that need to be issued. that closes a chapter. you see the mug shots. that closes the chapter. the next step we are looking toward is arraignment, when that happens, how that happens and in what format. willis requested those to happen the week of september 5th, after the labor day holiday. a judge hasn't rules whether that will be the case. there are a number of ways that could happen. it could be together, separately. we are told that virtual is on the table as well. what we are trying to figure ou

and whether it will go forward on the 5th. i want to talk to you about specific co-defendants we are watching, one of them is steven lee. he is the last person to have turned himself in. he just left the fulton county jail with his attorney just a few minutes ago. i don't know if we have the video. we saw him leave with his attorney. his attorney told reporters who were gathered there, including our gabe gutierrez, that he did nothing wrong. you are looking at some of the video. this is very different than what we have seen from the previous surrenders. one, our media cameras and reporters weren't allowed into the jail parking lot before today. before we were only allowed to be across the street. we could only talk to people as they stepped out of their car, if they chose to talk to us. now it's easier to access them. that's why we are hearing from steven lee and his attorney. the other piece is we haven't seen many of the defendants as they come out.

to hear from him and his attorney in real time is different than what we have seen previously this week. >> blayne alexander, thanks to you. let's bring in our panel. ken dilanian, former u.s. attorneys joyce vance and harry litman. what are the next steps? there's a hearing on monday. >> yeah. the next steps are, how is this case scheduled? one of the co-defendants, ken chesebro asked for a speedy trial. we talked to legal experts. they don't believe this will be the first case that goes to trial. the new york case is scheduled for march. on monday, the judge in d.c. will set a trial day for the election suppression case brought by the special counsel which only donald trump is a defendant there. that can get to trial faster than this massive racketeering case in atlanta.

>> joyce vance, let's focus on mark meadows. there's a hearing monday on mark meadows, former chief of staff, his efforts to move the case to federal court. what do you expect to happen on that monday hearing? >> this is an evidentiary hearing. when the judge looked at meadows' notice of removal, he wasn't able to determine on the face of that document that meadows was entitled to move his case from state court to federal court. something that federal employees can ask a court to do. meadows will bearvining the jud entitled. he will have to prove he was a federal official. he clearly was. he will have to show the conduct he was charged with in court was conduct that he was committing in that official role. the distinction between presidential function on behalf

of american citizens and the work of the campaign to get the former president re-elected will be the focus of monday's hearing. >> harry, wasn't to look ahead to the d.c. election case. the judge expected to hear from trump lawyers and the special counsel over the timing for the trial. how do you think she will react to the request that it take place in 2026? not just after the election but several years after the election. >> it will be telling. there's no way to construe that other than a provocation. very trumpian move. not just 2025, but 2026. she could give it back and say, i have one serious proposal and one joke. i will take the serious proposal. my best guess though is she is making a record of general

forbearance, general down the middle reasonableness until he forces her. i expect her to nudge it forward somewhat. but not without commentary as she did last time on the overall sort of political driven tactics of the -- what really is a ridiculous proposal by team trump. >> ken, is there any insight into why chesebro wants a speedy trial when president trump and the others want to delay this as long as they can? >> none other than -- that's his right. he is entitled to do that to clear his name. he will argue he was simply practicing law. he is an interesting character. at one point was a democrat, turned hard right and was one of the architects of the false elector scheme and wrote a lot of memos laying out how it can take place. he will say that that was legal advice. he wants his day in court. >> joyce, we now have all 91

felony counts. that legal process is playing out. which of the cases do you think that donald trump is most concerned about over the course of the next year? we should point out that bragg in new york said he will defer to the feds and the others that are arguably more important than the case in new york city. >> they are all serious cases. what trump should be most concerned about is the cumulative affect of these cases, because if he is con convicted -- the second conviction carries with it the prior conviction, it elevates his sentence, whether in the state or federal system. that's a little bit getting out over our skis to assume there will be convictions. it seems likely to me that he will be convicted of some of this conduct. at the end of the day, this looks a lot different than it does walking into it.

when you are a multi-timesed fe can get steep. >> harry, it strikes me it had to be sobering to walk into the jail. previously, he was walking into the courthouse. he is walking into a jail that has been investigated by the feds for terrible conditions, infestations, deaths, fights, all kinds of things. he wasn't in a cell. but as he walks in, he sees signs that say, inmates this way or prisoners this way. that just had to certainly sink in a little bit with the former president of the united states arriving in a long motorcade. >> can you imagine? i suspect joyce has toured jails. they are hellholes. this one is in particular.

the smell, the noise. it has this visceral quality that had to come home. people will be talking about and describing this mug shot. he looks so tense, so angry. it's got to be the biggest indignity of his life. his life has been in luxury. here he is just another defendant ina not very hospitable climate. >> the judge is a short timer on the bench, appointed by the governor just this year. he has a serious background as a prosecutor in the state and the federal systems. he is highly regarded in the local community. i think it's tempting for us to say, he is a new judge, he may not be up to it. but judges grow into their

roles. they rise to occasions. they consult with more senior judges on the bench. by the time this case goes to trial, this is a judge that will have a handle on how to move forward. >> harry, what about the fact that he hired another attorney down there? he switched lead lawyers in georgia. both are described as being very well qualified, leading, experienced litigators. do we know anything about the back story there? >> i think they are. i think the new hire is somewhat more aggressive. very respected. to me, i do think there have been initial signs of nerves by trump. even though the piece you played where he said, we had every right to do it if we believe. that's because lawyers have gotten to him and said, stop with these total categorical lies. cushion it by saying it was your opinion. i think he is beginning to flinch when he is in the court

system and showing some nerves. it happens, of course. you change lawyers. just as the trial starts, i think he feels, i need to change strategy. here i am. i have done my best. i am face to face now with the real deal. i want someone new. he can't be comfortable about the situation he is in. >> of course, there is the mug shot. they move so quickly. he went on twitter or x for the first time since 2021 to show it. then they branded it. t-shirts, mugs, merchandise. it's going to be -- the reporting is it's going to be a thematic image of the campaign. i think they think it shows defiance and strength. we will see. ken, joyce, harry, thanks to all of you. happy friday. the russian denial. the kremlin dismissing any

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that it's likely prigozhin was killed. we're continuing to assess the situation. we don't have any information to indicate right now, the press reporting staying there was some type of surface to air missile that took down the plane. we assess that information to be ina inaccurate. no information to suggest there was a surface to air missile. >> new images on russian social media appear to show that the aircraft's wing completely ripped off from the plane mid flight, reportedly landing nearly two miles from the crash site. the leading theory that a bomb or some other explosive was planted on the private plane, which explode the at 28,000 feet, soon after takeoff. joining me is the executive head on a national think tank on

national issues. we don't know the cause of the crash. what was your initial reaction to prigozhin's death? >> i was troubled by the scenario that this was revenge served by putin. i know that he likes his revenge served cold. this was not even remotely cold. maybe just barely not scalding. there was a "wall street journal" story that came out last night. this wasn't personal. it was strictly business. what happened is that after his mutiny, i think the message was sent to prigozhin that you have to divest of your interests, particularly in africa, where he had the wagner company deal with dictators all over the continent, mine resources like precious stones and oil and gas in countries as ranging as sudan and central african republic and mali and elsewhere.

what we know is that putin and his cronies were trying to take away, trying to muscle in on that business. prigozhin resisted. after he staged this mutiny against the defense ministry and confronted putin in june, he not only didn't go away into the sunset, but he kept trying to keep his business. that was a step too far. >> it seems awfully unusual that he was so comfortable, so confident, perhaps after showing up at that african summit with putin not that long ago, that he was coming from moscow. he was -- not that all of russian -- it's not putin territory. but he was going back to st. petersburg where i'm told by u.s. officials he felt very comfortable. it was his home base for so long. that's where he met vladimir putin, became known as his chef after being a small-time caterer. was coming in the last flight from moscow to st. petersburg. did that surprise you? >> no.

he never actually left. a lot of people assumed that he went to belarus as a supposed deal was worked out between him and president lukashenko and putin after the mutiny. he never went to belarus except for a short period of time. >> that i knew. most recently he was in moscow. >> he was shuttling in and out of moscow constantly. putin in his speech yesterday said he was meeting with senior government officials while in moscow. >> that's just remarkable. was spending most of his time in st. petersburg where he felt safe. interesting that he -- if this journal reporting is correct -- it makes a lot of sense that it was about money, because there were billions to be made in africa. he was making that money, the diamonds, minerals, the way they were probing for opportunities, having not penetrated there previously before the so-called

coup, which the u.s. has not called a coup for a lot of reasons of humanitarian aid and other security aid. >> you are right, andrea. i have to say, the one critical thing to understand in putin is that he is not really running a country. he is running a massive mafia state. it's often if not always about money. >> finally, how brazen this was. russian airspace, clearly worldwide focus on this. every spy agency, the brits, ours, everybody will try to find out what they can about the circumstances of the so-called crash and the fact that it was catastrophic. this was not some small mechanical failure. >> just like in the "godfather" is important. not just to prigozhin, he is dead now. but to his associates and any others that may think that putin does not have ultimate control

and the kremlin doesn't have ultimate control of what business is allowed to be -- continued to be held by oligarchs or what businesses taken by the kremlin because it decides it wants it. >> it's great to talk to you. you know the russian account so well. thank you very much. >> thank you. fast track, will fulton county have a jury seated in time for the latest proposed trial date less than two months from now? you are watching "andrea mitchell reports." this is msnbc. mitchell reports." this is msnbc.

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the presiding judge in fulton county requested a request for a speedy trial by one of donald trump's co-defendants. the judge set a trial date of november 23rd. she wants to try them all together. moments later, donald trump, moved to separate his case. it's one of many legal hurdles and delays that willis will have to face in this racketeering case. joining us now, two experts, greg blustein and charlie bailey. charlie, to you. how do you read the move? it seemed to be he is the only one asking for a speedy trial.

what does that mean in terms of how willis is going to conduct the trial? can she do it in two months? >> without benefit of understanding exactly the conversations between mr. chesebro and his attorney, i will say it's a bold move when you don't have discovery. the defense attorneys don't even have all the evidence that the prosecution will use at trial. time will tell whether it will pay off. as we sit here right now, willis and her team, they have been investigating this for 2 1/2 years. they know the case better than anybody. it's not the fault of the defense attorneys. they haven't gotten the information. it's a bold move. i think fani showed that like any good prosecutor, when you indict, you better be ready to go to trial. she and her team are. that's why they responded quickly with, okay, let's do it on october 23rd. we will see if mr. chesebro

stands by that demand. he can always withdraw it. >> at the same time, i guess she's calling his bluff. charlie, "the new york times" is reporting another major racketeering trial being prosecuted by her in atlanta, a rapper and his associates, they were indicted more than a year ago and a jury is yet to be seated. the jury selection process started seven months ago. what does that tell you about potential complications in the trump case? >> jury selection, that process is controlled by the judge. the judge has a lot of discretion as to whether question jurors individually or in groups. that jury selection is taking some time. i will give another example. the cheating trial, a rico case that fani led nine years ago, that started with 4 defendants. by the time it went to trial, there were 13.

jury selection there took about five or six weeks. people are saying, it's going to be months. that's not necessarily the case. i would say that's on the long end. if it starts october 23rd, that is when jury selection starts, at the beginning of the trial. i wouldn't expect it to last months. i think we are probably talking weeks. >> greg, what about the political environment that she's facing now, not only in georgia but the exclusive nature of leading republicans, the candidates as well as a state senator down there wants to oust her and now the house republicans are launching an investigation into her, according to jim jordan, the judiciary chairman. >> yeah. the d.a. is facing all sorts of political pushback. it's not going to go anywhere. you mentioned the federal probe, which is seeking information not only on how her office is funded

but also any interaction that willis or her other attorneys in her office have had with federal authorities. i think the big thing she's watching is a new law in georgia that gives the state new powers to either punish, investigate or even oust district attorneys who are considered not following the state law. it's a broad law. it's very broad definitions. there are a number of lawmakers in the gop who are vowing to bring complaints against her using this new law, which effectively starts in october. she knew this was a concern even during the debate over this legislation, even though sponsors never mentioned her name. she knew it could be used against her. there's a lawsuit challenging that saying it is a power grab that threatens the independence of the judiciary. >> governor kemp signed that law? >> the governor backed the law. it was one of the early supporters. never mentioned willis' name.

he mentioned the names of other d.a.s, republicans and democrats, who were found derelict of their duties or being claimed -- accused of being inept or ineffective in their jobs. republicans were careful not to make this a fani willis bill. as democrats and attorneys pointed out throughout the debate process it could be weaponized against her. that's what might be happening right now. >> what about the voters in georgia? georgia is a pivotal state if donald trump is the nominee and if he wants to win, he has to win georgia. what is public opinion there? where is that headed regarding this trial? >> exactly. georgia is a must win for republicans. democrats probably still have a path without winning georgia. but republicans can't win the white house without winning georgia. that's from several candidates who have said that. donald trump still dominates in all the polls that we have seen

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the 2024 republican primary candidates had a hard time escaping the shadow of donald trump and his legal troubles. they are trying to find their own lanes. ron desantis counter programming donald trump yesterday by showing up in iowa with his family. >> if republicans let it overwhelm, then it will. we don't have to let it. we can talk about people's future and focus squarely on that. the reality is, whatever happened then isn't going to change. it is what it is.

it's not however you want to talk about that, isn't going to cause gas prices to go down, make groceries more affordable. >> joining me now, former florida congressman david jolly and brendan buck, former senior advisor to house speakers boehner and ryan. nbc's team is saying this was the most consequential week of the 2024 contest yesterday. where do things stand for the republican party and the primary candidates after all of that? >> it's hard to say a lot changed. you have ron desantis saying the words, it is what it is. the frontrunner has gotten himself indicted or arrested for the fourth time. this shows you these people are not taking a serious effort to go after him. this is an enormous

vulnerability for donald trump. but it only matters if someone is going to exploit it. clearly, they're not going to do it. the more important thing to focus on is the general election at this point. i'm convinced at this point that people running in the primary are not putting in much of a serious effort. look at this in the context of a general election. donald trump is most likely going to be the republican nominee. what happened this week is clearly significantly damaging to him in a general election. yet, they are leaning into it. they are putting his face on t-shirts. i think they need to take this a little more seriously. i get why they're doing it. republican voters love the ethos of never backing down. this is a very significant long-term problem for donald trump if he wants to be president again. >> what about ron desantis, david jolly? you know florida politics. he goes to iowa, the field of dreams. everybody's favorite baseball movie. he is throwing softballs at the

kids there. he has the whole family. was that a good move? we used to praise ronald reagan for his photo ops. >> it is. ron desantis since the beginning of his campaign has done all of the things that a traditional candidate does. it's not resonating. you have seen him do the foreign trip, the early states, his family on the ball field. if you are not willing to deliver a message about the vulnerability of donald trump, then you are really going to have a hard time catching him. at this point, the reason the field is so handicapped in trying to chase donald trump is they raised their hands and said even if he is convicted, i will still vote for him. how do you make the case when ramaswamy says donald trump is the best president and everybody else says even if he is a convict, i will support donald trump, how do you tell republican voters, but you should support me instead? ron desantis is going through the motions of a heavyweight candidate. his message is not working in a

way he can catch donald trump. >> i'm wonder, brendan -- i know you said -- it makes sense that the general election voter will not take so kindly to the donald trump criminal problems, the allegations, the arrests, the surrender. but he is so leaning into it. we talked about the mug shot. look at the "new york post." this doesn't have a headline. the merchandising, he went on twitter for the first time since 2021, even though he said today that truth social is still his platform. going back and trying to find more people to look at it. they say that's going to be the theme of the campaign. >> it's classic donald trump. i think he believes that it could work for him. donald trump made a bet in 2016

that you don't need to worry about the middle. you can rally republican voters and turn out new voters and that can be enough. i think that's a dubious proposition. i think it's a failed look at why he actually won in 2016. so many republicans have internalized that as the way forward. that's what donald trump is going to try to do. make this existential for him and his supporters, that this election is about whether or not donald trump stays out of jail, but whether he is there to protect you. he will make this an emotional plea and turn out as many voters who are concerned about elites in power and things he talks about, and try to drive turnout that way. i don'the is capable of going any other way. it's the only thing they could do at this point. >> do you think, brendan, looking at the candidates on that stage, that anybody can break out of the pack? vivek is going to appear on

"meet the press." he was on fox this morning. he seemed to be moderating some of his really controversial foreign policy positions regarding vladimir putin and protecting taiwan and other allies. he was softer in his criticism against nikki haley. i don't know how he will take sitting on -- going on "meet the press" and explaining some of those positions. >> he doesn't know what he is doing in a lot of these things. it's what you see with first-time candidates. they are exploring issues for the first time. they don't know what they are talking about. i think it's only a gift to donald trump that vivek is a person who emerged from this debate. he is the person who has been defending donald trump the most. i don't understand why so many of the other candidates were attacking him and elevating him this way, other than just being annoyed by him. the more you lift him up, who is not a serious candidate, the more it helps donald trump. for that reason, i can't imagine

donald trump showing up at the next debate. this was a very good week for him in terms of the -- of winning the primary, which seems all but certain at this point. >> david jolly, you served in congress. what about jim jordan and the judiciary committee? now investigating fani willis or say they are launching an investigation into her. >> look, andrea, house republicans are intent to try interest to fear with the criminal prosecutions of donald trump. you have seen that in the alvin bragg case in new york. you will see that in georgia. there's little they can do. what we do know is they will use every tool at this disposal as a campaign arm of the republican nominee likely donald trump. you can expect them to try to continue to investigate the investigators. then i do think you will see jim jordan and other committee chairs probably pursue an impeachment inquiry like kevin mccarthy said despite the fact the evidence doesn't lead them there. >> david jolly and brendan buck, thanks to both of you.

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your reporting? >> reporter: we have been trying to follow the twists and turns over the last three days now of this highly suspicious plane crash. u.s. officials in their initial assessment believed that this was an act of sabotage, no accident, that aircraft don't just break apart in midair like that and spiral down uncontrollably to the ground. there's new images that emerged today that -- on russia media that appear to show the wreckage of the wing. the wing -- this is confirmed by eyewitness accounts -- was torn off the plane at around 28,000 feet and landed just short of two miles away from where the rest of the debris landed. clearly, a catastrophic incident took place at altitude. the russians are saying that they are investigating. and the spokesman for the kremlin and for vladimir putin personally urged people to have

patience while the investigators work through their findings and dismissed any reports or suggestion, like many, many people have suggested, including us, that this was more than just an accident and the kremlin could have been involved. he said that's pure western he said that is pure western speculation and absolute lies. but the working theory, the main working theory that u.s. military officials are working on right now is that it was not a surface-to-air missile that brought it down. they would have seen that on satellites, and other surveillance, but it was potentially a bomb smuggled on to the plane and there was some sort of explosive that detonated as this plane was about 30 minutes outside of moscow. >> richard i was talking to dmitry earlier, and he was flagging the "wall street journal's" reporting that after they had reached this accord that he would not be operating

in ukraine, he was trying to reassert his control over the african engagements, you were reporting on all of that. you did a whole special on that, and that that money issue that putin military were trying to get him out of that as well. it was a money deal that blew up and literally led to the blowing up of the plane. if it was revenge, it was not for the rebellion but for the aftermath. >> reporter: i think it's a bit all together. his operations in africa, prigozhin's operations in africa, wagner's operations in africa are valuable for political reasons in russia. putin effectively subcontracted africa out to the wagner group, and the wagner group and prigozhin personally were making money in africa, particularly

the central african republic, mining for gold and diamonds, in exchange for propping up dictators. we spoke to an adviser to the african republic, is this going to continue, are your operations going to go on as they were before now that prigozhin is likely dead, and he said makes no difference to us. we have a deal with russia and that deal with russia will continue with or without prigozhin. to go back to your question, what blew up after the deal that led to the plane blowing up. when prigozhin launched this mutiny, his african network was in disarray, was under question, and prigozhin, it seems, was fighting against moves by the russian state to try and absorb wagner, and absorb the africa operations into the russian military and the russian intelligence, and there have been some reporting that he was

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12 years after the disaster at japan's fukushima plant, authorities are releasing treated waste into the pacific. how safe is it. nbc's janis mackey frayer has our report. >> reporter: the first of more than a million tons of treated radioactive waste water being pumped into the pacific ocean a half mile from the shore. the discharge from the fukushima die xi nuclear power plant where reactors melted down after the tsunami. the contaminated water used to cool melted fuel has been stored in holding tanks that are now nearly full, enough to fill 500 olympic size swimming pools. japanese officials say there's nowhere else for the water to go. and so begins a long process to discharge all the treated water which will be pumped into the ocean off fukushima's coast for the next 30 to 40 years. the filtered water still contains tritium at levels

experts say aren't dangerous, and the u.n.'s nuclear watchdog is watching the plan. it's making waves with fear of environmental health risks, china slapping an all out ban on imports of japanese fish and seafood. japan will immediately pollute the waters said this chinese vendor. a lack of trust is why these volunteers set up their own lab. they're not scientists but a group of mothers. saying their children should know what they're inheriting. >> translator: if the treated water is discharged, she says, she feels the tragedy from 12 years ago could be repeated. radiation concerns linger here. even now this town near the crippled plant remains deserted. releasing the water is raising economic concerns too with the fisheries industry here now worried japan's image may never recover. >> our thanks to janis mackey

frayer, and when the u.s. open tournament begins on monday, it will be celebrating the 50th anniversary of women's tennis pioneer billy jean king's iconic victory over bobby rigs, as the battle of the sexes viewed by 90 million people worldwide. bill lee jean king crushed rigs in straight sets, as she was the first grand slam to award women equal prize money to me. in that same year she won three slams, the triple crown. i went to see her last night at the tennis center to talk about her incredible role in sports history. what did you need to prove in that match 50 years ago for women? >> i knew the match was much bigger than a tennis match. i knew it was about social change, and it did accomplish that, and every day since that day, if i'm out of the apartment, if i'm out in the public, every day someone has brought the match up. so i know that it affected a lot of people. so i think it did help change

the hearts and minds of people to believe in women more, to help them more. to just get in there. >> people still come to you 50 years later, people remember this in. >> they do. and it's vivid for them. >> and you can catch a lot more of my interview tonight, and monday right here on msnbc. and i bought a t-shirt, this graphic, just to commemorate the incredible influence that she has had over women's sports. transformational. before we go, another historic moment, marking 60 years since the reverend martin luther king jr. led thousands of people to lincoln memorial in the historic march on war. tomorrow, thousands of civil rights activists are expected to gather in the nation's capitol to commemorate the pivotal 1963 march that led to the passage later that decade of landmark civil rights legislation and a call to action to catalyze fulfilling dr. king's great dreams and one of youngest

advisers on the stage, right there at the memorial, one of the speakers, the late congressman john lewis. tomorrow's march will be led by members of the king family, by civil rights leaders, including reverend al sharpton, and jon jsh jonathan green plat. and kamala harris sitting down with reverend al on politics nation here on msnbc. and that does it for this edition of "andrea mitchell reports" "chris jansing reports" starts right now. >> good morning, i'm chris jansing, live, 19 charged and 19 booked. each defendant has officially been through the doors of the fulton county jailhouse, their fingers printed, their faced immortalized in a mug shot, and this is just the beginning. at this hour, one of the codefendant, harrison floyd is