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Donald trumps federal criminal arraignment today is not the judge will preside over his trial for here on out. instead natural goes to a judge named 18 cannon, confirmed to the federal bench very recently, in 2020, just in the very final days of trumps presidency. and she has experience in the trump documents investigation. last year she took extraordinary action in favor of trump. she temporarily blocked the justice department from reviewing material that they had seized at mar-a-lago. now that...

Is its not as arbitrary as who goes first and who goes second. jack smiths timing on charging mar-a-lago is put in motion when judge beryl howell rule the way she did in the crime fraud exception and allow jack smith prosecutors to pierce attorney-client privilege and gain access to all the -- >> indictment is written -- >> so, the timing part to that decision was probably unknown. right? unknown known only to the stars -- after that decision, my understanding -- and i think -- the point of, it ...

That they think that youre biased or should not be presiding over that, and so in addition to the -- strategically i think its unlikely we will see. that >> barry, let me ask you to weigh in on the same question. >> i agree with brandon. i would also add it was slow things down. the first move that the government makes if it is to seek her recusal, shes not going to do anything else. shes not going to get discoveries started, shes not gonna issue protective orders that allow for the process of d...

>> so, the timing part to that decision was probably unknown. right? known only to that stars -- after that decision, my understanding -- and i think -- some of the reporting on it -- came together very, very quickly. -- said, quickly, today, in the 5:00 hour, that based on judge carters assessment looking at the eastman evidence, that felony -- >> california federal -- judge -- >> correct. that felonies were likely committed by eastman and trump that you can bet your bottom dollar that -- win w...

Florida related to his handling of classified documents, and the january 6th investigation, which is ongoing with, apparently, grandeur grand jury proceedings happening even today in d. c. -- those two federal investigations are just part of the potential ongoing legal jeopardy for this particular former president. in the state of georgia, the fulton county district attorney fani willis has signaled that she intends to make a charging decision related to her state investigation some time in late...