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These kind of motions down the road. i think this is just sort of a shot that the defense team felt like they needed to take. and good lawyers -- im not surprised that they did something like this, to protect their clients position. but i dont think the supreme court is going to have the appetite yet to take it up. remember, this very well may be a case that moves into the federal. court we are talking about conduct, and -- what we believe the district attorney may charge would have been conduct...

The republican party to a big protection racket for trump ink. >> and by the way, we saw. that we are going to talk about a low later in the show. we are going to -- effort to quash the georgia grand jury investigation into him. he stated that this is going to hurt his reputation as the leading candidate for the republican party. the whole argument is circular now. he did these things for which he is being investigated. but you cant investigate him because it is going to ruin his reputation. >> ...

Hes also asking the georgia supreme court to shut down district tierney fani williss investigation into whether trump and its allies tried to overturn the 2020 election. in a filing yesterday in that case trumps legal team writes that allowing the georgia investigation to continue with cause, quote, reputational harm to the petitioner as he seeks his partys nomination for the presidency of the united states via a flagrant disregard for in violation of, his fundamental constitutional rights. and ...

But you can never use a criminal statutes because hes always running for president, which, for him, gives him perfect and unity and impunity. >> its almost like donald trump would like to never be accountable to the justice system for anything at all. for his part, jack smiths team which had previously proposed a december start date for the federal documents trial submitted zone filing this week to oppose delaying the trial until after the 2024 election. quote, there is no basis in law or facts ...

Congresswoman jamie raskin about these increasingly desperate looking moves on the part of trumps team. listen to what he said. >> you cant prosecute him when hes president because he is president. you can prosecute him after his president, because he is running for president. and they argued, yeah, and you cant use the impeachment process because really, he should be tried they say, using the criminal statutes, but then you can never use the criminal statutes because hes always running for pres...

Discussing. to me, if there is an indictment, that would be the wildcard if they do decide to bring one under this civil war era statute. >> dave, what did you think, i mean, what do you think about inciting insurrection? honestly, it is hard to reach healthy -- the evidence the public has been presented with, without using inciting an insurrection. >> youre right. its one thing to say it colloquially, but how does the law to fund his terms? these statutes her old. there are four when people spo...

Does the law to fund his terms? these statutes her old. there are four when people spoke differently. there is no definition in the statute of what is an insurrection and how is it different from quiet revolution. i think the draft prosecution memo does a good job of explaining health terms would apply. it really is the best interpretation available of those terms. so it is a pretty good case made their, this qualifies as an insurrection. that is something that would have to be litigated. i thin...

Away at the timeline and push out that case past the point where doj cannot really pursue it because we are in the heat of the election season. and i think that might still happen even if judge cannon says no. i will not delay this inevitably. >> joyce i think ali brings up the mar-a-lago request and the delay indefinitely on the part of trumps defense team. one of the things that i found particularly interesting and theyre sort of argument was the idea of rebutting the contention of the special...

Of the election season. and i think that might still happen even if judge cannon says no. i will not delay this inevitably. >> joyce, i think tali brings up the mar-a-lago request and the delay indefinitely on the part of trumps defense team. one of the things that i found particularly interesting in their argument was the idea of rebutting the contention of the special counsel that this is not a novel case. jack smith said this thing can be handled expeditiously because we are not reinventing t...

This because he could have said i want to vindicate myself and improve my innocence and just slowly whittle away at the time line and push out that case past the point where the doj cant pursue it because were in the heat of the election season, and i think that might happen as long as judge cannon says im not going to delay indefinitely. >> one of the things i found particularly interesting in their sort of argument was the idea rebutting the contention of the special counsel this is not a nove...