but this time is in charge of producing the show. joining once again our two veteran prosecutors, thank you for sticking with me. mary mccord and shan wu. i want to start with just how firm this march 4th date is. as people are circling their calendar, trump says he wants to appeal that they, he cannot do that, could still change? i could still change. i mean it, wasn t just the trial that the judge tanya chutkan set. she said other date, the date for pretrial motions, a date for government to overturn his witness list, the date for a turn over his exhibit. so, there s a whole bunch of intro dates in the schedule. there could be legitimate reasons either on behalf of mr. trump or the governments for one or two of those states to slip by a day or two factually legal reasons not bring him into court to ask. could be reasons for march 4th of a day or two are weaker to. but, it s not going to slip to postulation. this is going to happen and it s going to happen before the election. i thi
than the time we have proposed. and she said, well, you re out of luck. that s my characterization. and she said the trial for much fourth, 2024 which frankly gives team trump about six or seven months to prepare. we said one defendant trial that one multi-could for criminal charges. and she said, you know, i prepare trials as a defense attorney and we have very different views how much time a defense attorney needs to prepare. she lay down the law and now team trump will have to abide by that law. cap, and do you think six months is enough time to get ready for a case that is of this magnitude? as we, said one defendant, for charges. the defendant is a former president, but it s one defendant and four charges. and the reality is, march 4th date, i think the court gave herself a question because
the trump lawyer refused. so, judge tanya chutkan set went two months after the special counsel s office requested. trump seems to have lost control. his entire life has been but this time is in charge of producing the show. joining once again our two veteran prosecutors, thank you for sticking with me. mary mccord and shan wu. i want to start with just how firm this march 4th date is. as people are circling their calendar, trump says he wants to appeal that they, he cannot do that, could still change? i could still change. i mean it, wasn t just the trial that the judge tanya chutkan set. she said other date, the date for pretrial motions, a date for government to overturn his witness list, the date for a turn over his exhibit. so, there s a whole bunch of intro dates in the schedule. there could be legitimate reasons either on behalf of mr. trump or the governments for one or two of those states to slip by a day or two factually legal reasons not bring him into court to ask.
we are keeping an eye on hurricane idalia. we ll get back down to florida momentarily. we do want to focus this morning on two major developments in the criminal cases against former president donald trump. in georgia, trump s former white house chief of staff taking the stand, arguing he was only acting in the capacity of his role as chief of staff. this was the first major hearing since the indictment of trump, meadows and 17 others. now what ultimately happens could apply to all 19 defendants. then in the federal election subversion case against trump, judge tanya chutkan setting a march 4th trial date for next year, rejecting the proposal from the justice department and trump s legal teams when they requested to start. on social media, trump said he s going to appeal the march 4th date of the criminal trial where he s accused of stage allege conspiracy to overturn the 2020 election and a trump spokesperson echoing the former person, calling it, quote, an abuse of the american
making requests like that in front of a judge that they pay know is ridiculous. it doesn t curry you favor with the judge in the seriousness of the arguments you make. it was a bad strategic move. i m convinced it was driven by the client, not by the lawyers, as most of the bad decisions on the trump legal team are driven by. now, they ve got a march 4th date. you know, look, i think the thing for republican voters to think about out there is, this guy is going to be sitting in a courtroom starting on march 4th for probably six to eight weeks, depending upon the length of the defense case. at least six weeks. every day. not out on the campaign trail making the case against joe biden, which is what republicans should be doing every day. we simply cannot expect that someone who is facing this number of criminal trials, and, quite frankly, the conduct that underlies those charges, can be