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At each other, exchanged glances multiple times. truly extraordinary, wolf. >> paula, the big question tonight as you know is how long it could be before this all goes to trial. what comes next? >> wolf, this looks like its going to be a rocket docket because judge chutkan, she did not handle todays hearing but shell handle the case going forward. shes given the government just seven days to tell her when they think they can take this trial and how long the case will take to try. and then the de...

It was an open question about whether he would be the want to stand up and speak during this hearing. we actually heard him speak several times. it was different than what we have heard before, we heard him enter his name agreed he understood the charges and then enter that plea of not guilty, interestingly before the hearing got started, the judge was running late there was about 15 minutes of a pretty quiet time in the courtroom people were just milling about, im told it was so quiet you could...

They are signed paperwork, or to standard, the pre -- now have, bins and certainly a different -- that we saw for example in the new york arraignment where he was almost defiant. you saw the fist bump when he was in the courthouse, that was not -- >> and of course, one thing they talked about so much of the, and it seemed like a dispute that happened, what the trial is going to look like and what are we expecting on august 28th when they are back here? >> we are expecting to get a trial date thi...

In it that is an exemption for defendants that are too busy or running for president. so it will be set at that august hearing date. >> why would it be a faster case to docket, do you see this as a much stronger case for the prosecution? >> it is not even that. although i do because this is much more of a sxhoncommonsensi case. someone is not happy and they try to overturn it. bad common sense, but it makes more common sense than, you know, was he supposed to have the documents, was he not, what...

This is a simpler case, its more streamlined. with three defendants, you have three defense teams, which means three opening statements, three closing arguments and every government witness is cross-examined three times. thats not true here. it doesnt involve classified information necessary to bring this case to trial. so its simpler. now here is my bias. i come from the eastern district of virginia where i was a federal prosecutor. its known as the rocket docket, and cases move with dispatch. ...

Its probably with good reason because theres no need for the government to try to prove that mr. donald trump desired violence, although, that certainly happened. the other statutes mentioned in the target letter are all compelling cases. in other words, that he tried to thwart the peaceful transition of presidential power. that in and of itself is as compelling a criminal case as i can imagine. >> without getting into the state courts because i know thats a separate situation, but in these fede...

D.c. judges are used to dealing with interference cases. every judge in the district has had one. theyre very familiar with the constellation of facts around january 6, no classified documents and, of course, no aileen cannon. whether she will continue to be remains to be seen today. >> its not necessarily the rocket docket like west virginia. >> no, but a number of people who have had a mountain of january 6 cases dumped onto their docket and have become accustomed to moving these cases at leas...

Contains a political argument and a legal argument. you have to put the political argument aside. when you continue cases for political arguments, you could say it could interfere with the iowa caucuses, then the debate, then the south carolina primary, and i dont think we can go down that path. those are jury selection issues. the legal arguments are not that crazy. if you do the math, they are really saying until after the election, which seems like forever, but its 17 months as i count it. ri...

At this point. in terms of security currencies, they are going to make the super, quick normally it could take, days but this is going to take a couple days for these people once they get the lawyers, given the security clearance, theyre going to give that down, they will go into the church and say, we are an open, book we will give, everything it will be done in the next couple weeks. they will have all they need, the judge sat down a motion schedule, sat down in trial, date and lets get this t...

Constitutionally done so nobody knows actually what would happen. thats really interesting, mark. weve been talking about the timeline of this. we heard prosecutors might want to fast track this case in florida while the trump team might want to delay this as much as possible. how do you see it playing out? there are certain federal courts in the united states, one here in the eastern district of virginia where most espionage cases are brought because it is a positive location for the government...