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In like three to five-month increments of moving up the trial date, not right from the ink interception just, hey, push it out for two years. thats a little different. >> or even postponing it indefinitely. tim parlatore, thanks for your insight into the trump legal team and for breaking that news with us about your other client, bernie kerik. thanks so much for joining us. >> all right. thank you. here with us now, former federal prosecutor jennifer rodgers and former chief assistant d.a. for...

Ask dont trump whether he would like to testify at the grand jury without being fully confident that youre prepared to go forward, because you know that it is going to become public. you know how serious this is, and so there will be an indictment and, as sure as the documents case was brought in florida, because that were the -- of that case was, the so-called january 6th case, even though it involves a lot of work from the former president and conspiracy prior to january 6th, that case is goin...

Cooperate, and to try and cut a plea or a cooperation deal precharge. >> what is your sense -- i mean, trump himself says he thinks hes going to face charges here. what do you think hell be indicted for? >> well, ive heard reporting that this target letter mentions obstruction of justice and, you know, witness tampering, allegedly tampering with mike pence in that proceeding, and those seem to be kind of what theyre looking at. at the same time, its an odd time to be bringing those, because cert...

We did not know he was in talks to sit down with him so thank you for clearing that up. i want to also ask what happened in florida today, you saw people that used to work with trumps current legal team, they told judge cannon they didnt believe that she should schedule a new trial date for the documents case, but todd blanche said if she were, they proposed mid-november or later next year, obviously that would be after the election. do you really think they cant go to trial before november? >> ...

>> nikki haley called the news a further distraction while vivek ramaswamy said a dangerous press gent has been set, a critic of trump, chris christie, said of trump, quote, his lies have consequences, asa hutchinson said his actions on january 6th should disqualify him from ever being president again. here to discuss, cnn special correspondent jamie gangel, former senior adviser to president obama, david axelrod and the former lieutenant governor of georgia, geoff duncan. when you listen to gov...

The documents case. todd blanche said if she were, they propose mid november or later next year. obviously that would be after the election. do you really think they cant go to trial before november? >> i think that practically speaking, federal criminal cases do take that long. however, it is a little bit odd to be asking for that type of a trial dates at this early stage of the game. ordinarily, trial dates are set and everybody knows its not going to happen on that date and you have five or s...

Its mentioned in the target letter. >> thats whats fascinating and dramatic about today, there had been talk would this be the people around the former president charged? as of now, it seems like haems the only one but we dont know where the other letters may go. >> i was just talking to a legal source who was following this closely and the source said the cleanest case is to just do trump. to go narrow. you can start with him and then the others can follow. it may be a very short list. look at ...

Brunt of his rhetoric, i would be incredibly concerned. i would be incredibly concerned if i was in law enforcement. im incredibly concerned as an american citizen. we know what donald trump is capable of and we know what his rhetoric is designed to do. what its designed to elicit. whether its his attacks on the fbi or his attacks on director wray, jack smith, the federal prosecutor in this case, or merrick garland. its designed to elicit a violent response from his followers. >> on that point i...

Tip of the icebergs there are sources of cooperators that we dont know about. weve seen glimpses of that like people like rudy giuliani coming in and allegedly talking and claiming today that he hasnt received a target letter. thats interesting in itself. we know, for example in the documents case that somebody tipped off the federal government that, hey, theres no documents here. things are being moved here. that caused the fbi to seek those surveillance -- cctv coverage. so people are talking,...

Them and on the trump side of things, hes been meeting with advisors and theyve been scrambling to figure out has anyone else received a target letter and how much of a significant amount of trouble could he be in with this case. dana. >> those are questions we dont know the answer to. thank you so much for that reporting, catelin. the panel is back with me. john, its important, i think, because people are now drinking from a firehose of donald trumps legal issues, to separate this out from the ...