Hill and this is cnn Closed Captioning brought to you by mesobook. Com our firm has offered a free book about mesothelioma for over ten years. Mesothelioma is really all we do. 80087 to 4901 today on inside Politics Court is now in session. Donald trump is at one of his regular Campaign Stops a courtroom. This time in florida. But there are actually two critical hearings that could determine if the former president will be on trial smack in the middle of the Republican Convention and were going to check again on both plus 15 states, 865 gop delegates. One night Super Tuesday is just four days away. Ill talk to nikki haley about how shell move forward. If donald trump runs a table next week. And the age old question, its dominating the president ial race. This our seniors and a pivotal Swing State Weigh in On Whether Biden and trump are both too old for the presidency. Im dana bash. Lets go behind the headlines and Inside Politics politics first up the clock is ticking just the way donald trump wants it. The former president is inside a federal courtroom right now as his lawyers push to delay a trial and his classified documents, Criminal Case until after the november election cnns paula reid is outside that courthouse in fort pierce, florida polo. Whats happening inside sudan at this hearing has been underway for about two hours now, and weve learned that the judge, Aileen Cannon, whos overseeing this case, she has been pressing lawyers from the Special Counsels office and trumps Defense Theme about this issue of scheduling, pressing them both on their suggested start dates and the Special Counsel has said that theyd be okay with starting this trial in july early in the month of july 8, and Trump Lawyers have though, insisted that this should not go before the november election. Theyve said it would be quote, unfair to the American People and their client if he was in a courtroom instead of campaigning. Now we just got news out of court. If youre wondering why im holding up a piece of notebook paper. Were not allowed to send any information from inside the court, so we are relying on a team of reporters inside who watched the proceedings, take detailed notes and then they run down those stairs across four lanes of traffic and delivers this news. And this is a really Significant Development that we just got because theyve been a lot of questions about how close to the election the Justice Department would be willing to take this case to trial. Historically, the Justice Department has had has had a policy of not taking significant investigative steps that could impact an election any closer than 60 days out of an election. And theyve been questions about whether that applied to trials and setting a trial date. Our colleague evan perez, pressed the Attorney General on that several months ago and he declined to answer. Well, the prosecutors gave us a very clear answer, a few moments ago one of the Special Counsel, prosecutors, jay bratt, said that policy does not apply to setting a trial date. He said, quote, we are in full compliance of that policy, that it does not apply to trial dates. So this suggests that the Special Counsel would be open to bringing this to trial, even as late as september or october, that that is significant. But now again, all eyes are on the judds to see where she places this on that increasingly crowded calendar do you have any sense and i know maybe this is a tough question to ask you, but i know youre in Constant Contact with our great team inside do you have any sense right now based on what youre hearing from the judge and how these arguments have been going for two hours of what she might want to do yeah. So based on these notes, the quotes were getting from the judge. It doesnt look great for the Special Counsel to get their july 8 date because she suggested that there were aspects of that that were, quote, unreasonable. She also talked interestingly about trumps upcoming criminal trial in new york. Hes currently scheduled to go to trial. The hush money case, which has been framed as an Election Interference Case on march 25th. Thatll go about six weeks. Dan, as she said, that has to be taken into consideration because trump has a right to attend hearings in this case. So its not looking great for the Special Counsel, but were looking to see what she does really interesting, please tell our colleagues to be careful with four lanes of traffic. Im watching it behind you. It looks really intense. Thank you for that great reporting. Here with me now to continue this conversation is shan wu, former federal prosecutor and jeff swartz. Hes a former federal judge. He is in the state of florida. Youre in florida. I want to start with you, judge swartz what what is your takeaway from what first of all, what paula just reported about how things seem to we going in that hearing so far. Well well thanks for having me. Well, for the notes that weve heard from before that ive been following the reports that have been coming out. Clearly, theyre not going to get a july 8 date. And i would have im not going to hesitate to say that trump has to be careful because he might get yet what hes asking for, which would open up trial dates for chunkin after the Supreme Court comes back. So he needs to get something in late august, Early September to interfere with that set that trial being set, then however, i think that jack has a backup plan for that, and i think that that i think that hell get what he wants from chunkin which is probably sometime in late july, early august. I anticipate Supreme Court will wait until the very end of the term to issue their opinion. And i think that hes got a plan to avoid whatever judge cannon does okay. So this is i know theres a lot because theres so many cases and im gonna bring you in. Youre talking about youre talking about the federal election subversion case in that particular comment. Okay. Just wanted to make sure yeah. Just wanted to guide our viewers. Yeah. Okay. Thanks. Shan, i dont want to lose sight of the news that paula just brought us, which is that jack smiths team said that they dont believe that the guidelines, its not a policy, its certainly isnt a law in doj that you shouldnt bring charges against somebody whos running for office 60 days before that election does not apply here when it comes to the trial maybe not a surprise given the fact that they brought these charges months ago, but certainly significant to hear it in a court of law. Yes. And as you said, its not that much of a surprise because the actual strict reading of that policy, its not some law or something its really not to do anything which is like opening and investigation executing a search warrant, but its fuzzy as we talked about it within 60 days. Were not really sure if its 60 days, but the idea of you dont want to do something which could really have a big effect. On the election too close to it. So, and hes technically correct because were not talking about starting something. Were talking about simply setting the trial date. I have to say Merrick Garland has been very hands off with this. Sometimes i think to the detriment of the integrity of the case speed, he might weigh in if youre really talking about jack smith says, hey, im ready to go two weeks before the election. Garland might say that just looks bad for us. So theres still some possibility that might happen, even despite what jay bratt saying, i heard you saying aha, judge, im im guessing if Merrick Garland did that and were obviously they talking in hypotheticals here. There would be just a little bit of blowback from people in his party. Thered be a lot of glue back. Therell be a lot of blowback. I think that that if they tried to start sometime in september knowing theyd be finished in october. I think that would be okay. Anything that would carry the case beyond and election day, thats going to be a problem. And i think the american ireland will have to step in and say the policy applies. But lets broaden this out a little bit and just to give our viewers a sense that they can look at some of what were talking about on a calendar. First, lets just start with later. What is now this month . Were in march. March 25. Thats when a totally different trial. The new york criminal trial starts. That has to do with out. Thats the alvin bragg case. Then the week of april 22, that is going to be a big one thats when the Supreme Court does hear the immunity case. And then you go to the end of june. That is when the Supreme Court typically recessive. So well probably hear from them before that. And then you have july thats the request for the start of the documents case. Were going to see how this trial and at this hearing in Florida Pans Out today. Remember july 15th, thats the rnc. Thats the Republican National convention. And then about a month later, thats when the former president wants to start the documents case. If you are dizzy looking at this, thats the point. And i know you were both our legal experts, but i think we have to keep in mind here on Inside Politics that all of the Delay Tactics that Donald Trumps lawyers are employing are very much tied in with his political strategy shan. Yeah. And i think its worked very well for them, particularly the great culmination of that form is in the Supreme Courts delay here, even though they can say that theyre moving on expedited basis, it still has effect of pushing everything very far off. And when you look at that calendar, i mean, you can really see what the judge was referring to, which is if jack smith tries to find a path for the federal cases its a very narrow path. Everything has to go exactly right. There, cant be any winds that blow them off course. And judge Aileen Cannon has in the past proven to be a pretty good wind jeff swartz, i just want to quickly before i let you go to look up a little bit north west of where you are to georgia. And what is your sense of whats gonna happen . Because we are waiting for a hearing to start there on the question of Whether Fani Willis will remain the lead prosecutor im Kate Or The Da And Georgia Will Main remain on the case against donald trump there. I think the only thing thats going to stand in the way of her staying on that case is going to be whether the judge feels that she and her lead prosecutor were deceptive and or committed perjury at the time that they testified. Other than that i dont see any conflict of interests. It would call for her to be thrown off the case the fact that she may have had a relationship with someone she works with is not a basis to throw her and him off of the case and say they cant prosecute donald trump. Thats not a conflict with donald trump and the other defendants. So i think thats whats going to happen. Thank you both for trying to make sense of what is very, very difficult to follow. But so incredibly important. 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There is a lot of politics to digest as we close out this week and were just talking about things that happened the last 24 hours, joining me to do all of that is my great panel of reporters, cnns mj lee, aaron blake of the Washington Post and Margaret Talev of axios. Nice to see you all as i like to say, happy friday to those who celebrate lets just start with what i was talking about in the last block with just not just whats happening in florida today, which is a procedural, but very important political hearing, because its going to determine the Building Blocks of the timeline for what he is going to have to face and what he isnt going into the fall but also just the idea that what the Supreme Court and perhaps whats going to happen in florida. Things seem to be breaking Donald Trumps way in a big way when it comes to his ultimate goal, which is delay, delay, delay yeah, delay, delay delay has been Donald Trumps overarching strategy. If you can call it that the ironic thing, of course, is that he has railed against this legal system that is corrupt and is working against him. And, you know, delving into the Conspiracy Theory land. Many times. But yeah, the truth of the matter is, we have seen a number of developments where that Delaying Tactic has definitely broken his way. We are now in a situation where were not going to have some of these key decisions for months and months and we know from public polling that yes, there are people who would be really concerned if he ended up being convicted and that could sway their decision. But theres still a good segment of his base, but just doesnt, you know, they dont care what ends up happening in the legal syste