supreme court if they take the case. >> the federal election interference case has been paused while this immunity question is appealed. now the trump team has asked the special counsel, jack smith, be held in contempt. they're asking because he filed motions after judge chutkan said that she was delaying them again, pausing everything for the appeal. jack smith's office pushed back, they said they were voluntarily sticking to those deadlines and that they had said exactly that. i'm really curious about what you think, obviously, judge chutkan issued a stay while this immunity situation is being worked out. but jack smith seems to say, we're gonna work in background, when questions are asked about we can be on track, is this a delay tactic or again, is there they're there? >> it's unusual, i'll say this for my case has been stayed for either side to continue falling motions. however, in this case the
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that's nonsense. it's just blowing smoke and a delay tactic. that cannot happen. you cannot appeal her decision about setting a trial date. you cannot. it won't happen. it simply won't happen. >> how about the coordination -- judge chutkan says she spoke with the judge overseeing judge's criminal case in manhattan. that's set for march. >> march. >> the idea of a march date in new york, at the state level, and the march date in the federal court in washington, d.c., does that mean that the federal trial and that conversation would have said, look, i'm going to have to flex the idea of being a federal judge and you'll have to reschedule your date? or do they go the same month and that's it? >> i don't think they go the same month. i would think that the manhattan d.a. would concede they let the federal judge go first on this. if i were in her situation, i would flex my muscles. i have this date. this is going to happen.
officers, really don't have a good argument to remove it to federal court. >> elie, i guess trump is expected to do the same thing. that could be part of his team's delay tactic, but also a way to undermine the rico charges brought against him and his co-defendants. and i suppose, you know, if mark meadows gets his way and he's plucked out of this case and all of a sudden you have fewer co-defendants, the case could still go forward to trial, i imagine. it would just be without him as a defendant. >> yeah, there's a lot of different people pulling in a lot of different directions here. if mark meadows or more than just mark meadows succeeded in getting this case moved to federal court, then we're going to be on two tracks. whether that serves donald trump's interests, i think it would. i absolutely expect him to bring this motion. he's not done so yet, but as carrie said, he was a federal officer. i agree with carrie, he does not
to make a decision. if they get removed, it will be in federal court and a bigger jury pool. but i don't think it's outcome determinative of what will happen in the trial. the evidence is going to come in. the jury is going to decide whether they did this or didn't. >> is it just a delay tactic? >> no, because i say yes and no. no, in a sense that if it gets remove d to federal court, they will then argue they are immune from prosecution because they were federal employees acting in the scope of their employment. they get to have immunity. so that's not a delay tactic. that's a get the case dismissed tactic. but there's also the delay aspect to this. and many of these defendants, like many in trials around the country, would prefer they have
violence, the incipient violence. people say everything trump does is a delay tactic, and i don't agree that's fair. frankly every good defense lawyer seeks to delay. and you're entitled to the effective assistance of counsel. there's a lot of time to prepare these cases. but another part of his advantage, i fear, is inciting violence. and that is something which we all need to be on guard for. he started with right after the new york case, death and destruction if i'm charged. and it goes to matt gaetz saying, we bring change by violence. navarro saying civil law. that causes crazies to take shots. i want to renounce that. the same constitution donald trump wanted to suspend should and will afford him every protection unless and until found guilty.
election. that's not gonna happen. we are not, i feel like, going to be seeing these federal cases stretched out that for. but he does have a point that for the criminal cases, at least, he does have to be there for them. he doesn't need to be in need to be in court the suffering there's civil case that he's facing. both in new york one federal civil case. again another defamation case against e. jean carroll. and one civil case from letitia james, the new york attorney general against his business. he is going to have a lot to do, on civil cases, he doesn't have to be there. he wasn't there for the first e. jean carroll defamation suit. he probably won't show up for this one. but the rest of them he does need to be there. so, it's going to be a real balancing act, it's gonna take up a lot of his time over the next few months. starting at the beginning of the year. >> yeah, absolutely. referring to the delay delay tactic, here's what trump's former white house lawyer ty
the table. i believe that this is a delay tactic, because they have always been on the side of the case it seems. the police chief, assistant police chief, was in charge at the time that the murder, attempted murder. >> and the montero, you are just 24 years old when the incident happened. what has happened to her life? has how has it been impacted since? >> honestly, if i can be completely honest, i feel like it took a turn for the worse, because -- right now beforehand. i was reluctant about speaking up i. even though it is, will definitely keep up the fight, i deal with anxiety, depression, insomnia, just thinking about the incident more than i should, effects me negatively mentally more than anything. >> carlos, are you confident that you get a new trial? what about filing a lawsuit?
propose a trial date nearly three years after indictment? >> well, certainly if a defendant does not want to go to trial ever, yes, that's what they would do. i mean normally it's the other way around. it's normally the government asking for more time and the defendant in holding the government's feet to the fire and demanding a speedy trial, but this is different. i don't think donald trump really wants to ever go to trial, right? he wants to try this in the court of public opinion and try to win over everybody and become president and then not be responsible for any of this, so this is part of the delay tactic he's shown in every one of his cases, right? it's like a shell game that he goes to court and says i can't be ready on this case because i have the other case, but then he goes to court on the other case and say i can't be ready on this case because i have the other case. he's really using that same excuse for all of the cases, and this one really is the most simple and straightforward. there's only one defendant, right? it's not like mar-a-lago where