xfinity rewards creates experiences big and small, this is the katie phang show, and once-in-a-lifetime. live from miami, florida. we have lots of news to cover, and lots of questions to answer, let s get started. the waiting game. all eyes on special counsel, jack smith. and, fulton county d.a., fani willis. we await more indictments against former president, donald trump. now we re still breaking down the impacts of smith scathing superseding indictment in the mar-a-lago classified documents case. msnbc legal analyst, joyce vance, is standing by to explain why this can end up being an awful august for donald trump.
target letter that is a week away from indictment, while he is still conducting additional, dotting i s and crossing t s types of witnesses but the fact that he received a target letter should reflect that there s a likelihood of indictment. we just don t know when. okay, former president trump faces a similar investigation on the state level. we re talking about georgia now. he is looking to disqualify, you know, the fulton county d.a., fani will is from pursuing the case. on what grounds? would there be any potential success with that? well, he tried and he lost, in the georgia supreme court, the georgia appellate court, said that no, there is no grounds for forcing willis off of the case, or shutting down the investigation all together. that really came pretty quickly after trump filed his motion to disqualify her and to shut the investigation down. so that seems like something that is going to happen in the
the noise is impossible to ignore because it s so loud and it s so constant. but he is not going to be making any decisions based on anything that is coming out of the defendant s camp. so i don t think it will have any effect whatsoever. and, you know, it s standard procedure if you re issuing a target letter to invite the target to tell his side of the story. it rarely happens because most people will not go before the grand jury unless they re granted immunity, which, if they re a target of the investigation, they re unlikely to be granted immunity for obvious reasons. so, i think jack smith will be completely unphased, and his plans will not change at all based on this kind of talk. right. and, ryan, i know you ve made it clear, he s ready to go, that you think that this will be coming, you know, in the next days. we re not talking weeks in terms of jack smith s decision. what about the fulton county d.a., racketeering indictment, that this is basically packaged and ready to go,
neil: because as you know, and i m not telling you something you don t know, there s still an investigation and we re waiting for maybe what could be follow up attack lines against the former president that he interfered in the georgia recount. what do you think of that? you know, that s interesting. so the prosecutor oversight bill actually was a lot about, you know, the media made that about donald trump. the fulton county d.a., she went on air saying that this prosecutor oversight bill was about her and race, when in actuality this prosecutor oversight bill was one of the first bills that i signed onto in 2021 before there was any mention of an indictment, which is why i supported victim rights over prosecutors. so that s my answer. neil: got it. got it. all right. representative, thank you. let s see how things go for you now as a republican. always good seeing you. hearing you. thank you so much. neil: thank you very much for that. in the meantime, kids are back
criminal indictment in january 6th riot? of course. if there is a public interest and russell families just quickly, before the election, that applies with at least equal force to the case that is here to. come so tanya, when you thought about all of these varying factors, let s first of the timing. what do you think special counsel smith thinks about is concerned about, what he thinks about the 2024 presidential election? i think you headed exactly right and you re introductory remarks. there is an election coming up. he wants to get ahead of a cycle he made it very clear in his filing today. in the mar-a-lago case. he is also mindful of the fulton county d.a. s investigation. and as you point out, federal prosecutors usually windows turf wars. we were looking at the calendar to, mindful of the clock, this is what we kind of work night and day to get this model