bring ryan riley, i want to thank him as well, and everyone who was here tonight. i want to throw to another big gun, chris hayes. i toss it to you, my friend. this is one of the biggest nights i think for any of us who are in this business. it is a night of pathos not joy in the sense that the american republic is having to witness this integration of the presidency or the former presidency in the form of the apparently now confirmed indictment of donald trump. now c there is something so different about the manhattan district attorney indicting donald trump for actions that he took in the run up to him becoming the president in in that hush money payment scheme. we have a multi jurisdictional form of justice. they re from different jurisdictions for different crimes. the united states department of justice, this is the sort of republic at its, defending itself against itself in some senses here. it does feel like we are at the, you talk about all the clichés we is about g
principally and practically. principally he s placed himself in a position because of the fact that donald trump has no doubt that motivation to try to make this political, to try to say that he is being attacked by weaponize doj, when you put the case in a venue like florida, you take that argument away. because now you potentially have a jury, and lisa has talked about, that is perhaps more friendly to donald trump. and so now he can t argue, well, the venue is going to be unfair to me. you re in a red state, you are in a state he won when he ran for president, you are in a state that you carried when you lost the president. the likelihood that you re gonna find yourself in anti trump land is lower than you would if you are in d.c., for example. so jack smith has taken that argument away. practically a lot of people may not know this but florida, on federal level, has a rocket docket which is gonna move the case up and exhilarated half faster in moving this closer to trial. so jack s