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, then vice president elect kamala harris called it a bald face bold abuse of power by the president of the united states. the day after that democratic members of congress wrote to the fbi, asking for a federal probe , and that same day, a funny willis, the fulton county district. attorney indicated that she was willing to investigate it herself. she she said. she said she saw the report. she found them disturbing and she said, i will enforce the law without fear or favor and she continued once the investigation is complete, this matter like all matters will be handled. by our offers office based on the facts and the law, and i ll add that that same week . so three days after the phone call cnn read an article on its website, saying that legal experts say that trump s call could put him in legal perils. the idea that no one found anything wrong with this call until, say brad robbins berger s book promotion tour in the fall of 2021 simply not borne out by the facts. daniel dale. thank
in the real legal weeds of this over the next two months, there s going to be what s called discovery. that is where the days officers providing the former president with grand jury witness testimony with their documents that they ve accumulated so he can prepare his defense. trump s lawyers motions to file motions, which they say they are going to file many of them are due on august. 8th the d a s office is due to respond on september 19th they had asked for their deadline to be moved up. the judge was willing to give them more time and then they re all back in court on december 4th. that s where the judge will decide. these motions. now the next big question here will be when is this trial date? prosecutors asked for january, 2024 trump s team said they wanted the spring of 2024, the judge said. that seemed reasonable, but he hasn t said the date just yet, kate sarah. thank you. john clock is ticking kur asking what s next? legally i ll tell you what s next. politically a lot of angr
prosecutors say that he falsified business records to cover up hush money payments. trump s lawyers say there s no there there and are promising to fight to get the charges dropped before this ever reaches a jury. cnn s harris canal has very latest this hour from outside court. you know, carol trump s legal team is really jumping on one fact that really focusing in on the how the underlying crime that trump s accused of trying to cover up it s not laid out in court documents. what s the manhattan d a. saying about that? yeah. i mean, as you said, this is one of the big issues that trump s legal team is making. and alvin bragg, the district attorney, who was in the courtroom yesterday, when donald trump was being arraigned , sitting just over his right shoulder one i ll over. he gave his first public remarks on this and he spoke directly to this issue. take a listen. the indictment doesn t specify because the law does not so require we are not going to go into our delivery process on wh