excuse me, 370 million dollar civil fraud trial. he s got a lot. now let s get smarter with the help of our leadoff panel tonight. jon allen is here, or senior national politics reporter for nbc news, and prize winning reporter for the new york times, former new york prosecutor and fizzle civil rights attorney, our friend charles, and katie, i turn to you first because it is your colleagues at the new york times that had the scoop on this new filing. trump s lawyers seem to be new attack plan on jack smith classified documents case in florida. what s this all about? this is a pretty typical filing that happens before a trial begins when the defense is trying to figure out what kind of information it is going to get. however, it s really telling because it always gives the prosecution a sense of what is the defense interested in and of course, that means what might they want to use to buttress the government s argument? in this case, we are looking at a couple of things, including t
spoken like a true lawyer. but the reason why is we do not have a trial date from scott mcafee in fulton county, that could go before november. we will get a ruling from the supreme court on the presidential immunity and double jeopardy issues that donald trump has raised before november. we will not have a mar-a-lago classified documents, trial which i spoke to molly about on her amazing podcast. it won t go before november. but then, because of the maga judge, but then you shift the burden to the dea, alvin bragg, who is able to take a backseat for the federal case. but now he s up for trial. it s not case in new york, the alvin bragg case, the stormy daniels, is that really going to take trump out no matter how it goes? he will be found guilty of his crimes, but do you gamble and take that one first? the least compelling of all of them. i think that they re all solidly on for, legs but i think it is the least compelling of all of them. so do you gamble and take that one? i would
break? i don t know. because that is what mitch mcconnell thought was going to save it. mitch mcconnell dislikes donald trump more than anything i can think of. they all secretly dislike him. i m not going to so, the answer is, maybe. spoken like a true lawyer. but the reason why is we do not have a trial date from scott mcafee in fulton county, that could go before november. we will get a ruling from the supreme court on the presidential immunity and double jeopardy issues that donald trump has raised before november. we will not have a mar-a-lago classified documents, trial which i spoke to molly about on her amazing podcast. it won t go before november. but then, because of the maga judge, but then you shift the burden to the dea, alvin bragg, who is able to take a backseat for the federal case. but now he s up for trial. it s not case in new york, the alvin bragg case, the
witnesses, and donald trump is convinced it huge swath of the country that they are completely untrustworthy. that is one thing that is filed, and then he talked about what kind of evidence he would not like to admit. but i really think that the fbi agents as witnesses, something totally typical, something that would never raise a brow in any other moment in history, this will be a really interesting thing to see, as you say, in a jury pool that is inclined to believe the things that donald trump says. charles, trump s immunity appeal, his latest appeal, i want to share what he said on tuesday night, right after the appeals court hearing. watch this. if this case were on immunity, and i did nothing, wrong absolutely nothing wrong, i m working for the country. and i worked on very hard on voter fraud, because we have to have free elections. yes, we have to have free elections, but there was no
already highly classified in a way that they should not have been, and therefore, the fact that donald trump should not be something that results in them being a convicted criminal. the problem with that is what you look at when you see jack smith and the government filing today. what they filed what they wanted to get information around sulfone data from the codefendant in this case, because when they are trying to do is basically say, look, we are going to line up, or all of these documents will be moved, and hidden, and moved, and hidden lucky government was trying to recover them. and that directly undercuts the notion that you believe that having them wasn t a big deal, that you are trying to assert that now that it wasn t. and that is a problem that donald trump has not been able to escape. john, how does this new legal strategy if it into the narrative that he s using on the campaign trail? and at this point, the campaign