The legal tapper starts right now donald trump might get yet another delay in yet another one of his many criminal trials, the lead starts right now moments ago, the prosecutor in the new york Hush Money Case said hed be okay with it. 30 day delay. This as the former president spent the day in the florida courtroom, his lawyers arguing broad leeway under the president ial records act as a reason to throw out the case. The judge in that case expressing skepticism will explain all of it to you coming up in rodgers response, nfl quarterback Aaron Rodgers with a new post on twitter today. Kind of alluding to the Exclusive Reporting we broke here on the lead yesterday, that he had privately shared with the least two people we know of deranged Conspiracy Theories about the 2012 Sandy Hook School shooting not being real plus space success with a major mishap, the massive Spacex Starship rocket. Thats part of nasas plans to get back to the moon. While that goes farther and faster than ever before we get the spacecraft is now lost welcome to the lead object app, or we got a lot of legal news as for you relating to donald trump and a boil, explain it to you as clearly as possible because i know its tough to keep all of these cases apart. Well start with Breaking News in our lawn justice lead. The Manhattan District Attorney just said hes not opposed to a delay of up to 30 days. This is in trumps hush money file. This is according to a new court filing, breaking this afternoon. Now, this is the case that involves trumps alleged payment to Adult Film Star and director Stormy Daniels in an attempt to keep her quiet about their alleged affair. This is right before the 2016 election. Now, this trial was supposed to start in less than two weeks on march 25th. So it looks like it will start later than that thats number one. Number two, we are also following a major hearing and trumps maralago classified documents, case again, i know its tough to keep all these straight, but remember, this is the case where donald trump stands accused of taking highly sensitive classified documents to maralago after leaving the white house, after which the National Archives repeatedly asked trump to return the documents. Requests he ignored, and trump continued to distort the documents in unsecured locations throughout the maralago property, including these famous photos youve seen of the box is being stored rather insecurely in bathrooms and ballrooms and more todays big development, trumps attorneys asked the judge to delay that case or even throw it out altogether, and trumps team arguing two things. One, that the president ial records act was not clear enough so trump did not know he was breaking the law when he brought the documents to maralago to arguing that these were his personal records. He had a right to keep Special Counsel jack smiths Team Fighting back saying, come on from clearly knew the importance of some of the classified documents he had pointing to a meeting trump had at his bedminster, new jersey club in 2021. Theres a recording of this meeting in it. He describes certain documents as classified and he did not seem to think that they were personal now, thats 1. 2 now, we turn 23. We are also awaiting a major ruling that could come at any moment in Fulton County, georgia, this has to do with the case against donald trump for trying to steal the georgia electoral votes. Judge scott mcafee is any minutes at to decide whether District Attorney fani willis, who is prosecuting trump should be removed from overseeing trumps georgia elections case. This is over claims from the trump team that fani willis financially benefited from a relationship she had with one of her top prosecutors. All right . Got it. All. Lets start with Cnns Katelyn Polantz outside the courthouse in fort pierce, florida. Thats where the classified documents, cases, kaitlan, judge cannon seem pretty skeptical of the trump teams arguments today. She did jake and what the trump team is trying to do here in florida in this federal case about Classified Records is the same thing. Theyre trying to do every everywhere else. Theyre either trying to get the case dismissed or to make things take a really long time until everyones set to go to trial today. They spent five hours in the courtroom in arguments before judge cannon, where she didnt rule, but she did express some skepticism to these arguments trump is making to have his case dismissed on the ground. Whos that these were his purpose personal papers that he wanted to take out of the white house and that the law around National Defense secrets is a little too big for him to have known he shouldnt have taken them out of the white house and to maralago, judge cannon said it would be an extraordinary step for her to dismiss the case on these grounds, and it would be difficult to see her doing that at this juncture, but hes asked by my count nine different ways to have this case dismissed. This was arguments for just two of those nine topics or approaches his team has made. So we now wait for judge cannon to rule. She is very likely to write something potentially lengthy about the president ial records act, about the law in this case. And how it is charged against donald trump. She says, itll be coming promptly, but we still dont even have a trial date. The last time we were here two weeks ago. That was what they were talking about then and still nothing on the books. So im becoming a connoisseur these donald trump courtroom sketches. If we couldnt put the one up of him glaring, looking toward there. Thats it. Its good to pretty its a pretty good one. I like the shading. Its not cartoony, kind of captures him. He was inside the courtroom today. We see these images. What was his behavior like . Well take the glower and donald trump that you saw in the arraignments that type of criminal defendant in that posture of the former president. Thats not what its like now hes been in judge cannons courtroom for hours at a time. And so you can tell that he is getting much more comfortable sitting there at the difference Defense Table from our producers and reporters inside the court who were able to watch every moment of this. He spent some time chatting with his attorney. He had reactions to some of the arguments that people were making little facial expressions, things like that. One thing in this case that is really interesting to watch is what people refer to trump in the courtroom. Theres not any interaction with him directly in de like this where its about legal arguments. And so judge cannon, throughout the day was referring to him as the defendant. Whereas his own lawyers are referring to him as the president all right. Katelyn polantz and florida, thanks so much with us now, cnn chief Legal Affairs correspondent paula reid, an cnn senior legal analyst. Elie honig, an former Principal Deputy assistant attorney general tom dupree. Thanks to one and all for being here. And lets start, i think with judge cannon, right. That seemed the most interesting. What do you think she is thinking when it comes to possibly throwing out this case . Its pretty clear that shes not going to throw out this case, but we knew that before todays hearing because this argument that this should be thrown out, its undercut by former president trumps own statements. Remember hes had this evolving explanation for how you should be allowed to have these classified documents. He had a standing order. He declassified them with his mind. Hes also on tape, a central piece of evidence in this case, acknowledging that he couldnt declassify them when hes no longer president and he shouldnt have that. He knew he had secrets but even though hes unlikely to win on the merits, the fact that she allowed arguments here took a whole day to hear this out, which he could have just dispense with this on paper. That is significant because every day every filing every motion helps delay this and we know that is the crux and we said it 100 times of the Trump Defense strategy. So she may have animal loss in this battle, but in some ways shes helping win the war. So there was an argument, tom, thats kind of like the Unfrozen Caveman Lawyer argument, which is just like im just a humble caveman. I dont understand your president ial records act, right . I mean, like he was so confused. Its written so vaguely, is there anything . In to that in my opinion, no, jake, look, the fact is is that this law and the other law, the Espionage Act and its charged under have been on the books for a long time. And although its not impossible for a federal judge to basically invalidate a statute on the theory that it is too vague to be enforced, that happens very, very rarely. I cannot imagine her doing that here, particularly because the president , i mean, look, hes not a lawyer, but hes a sophisticated person. He worked in the white house. Obviously hes well aware of the ways the federal government, and i just dont think its gonna be plausible to the judge for him to say i had no idea that what i was doing could possibly be deemed illegal. Now an interesting moment today, le trumps team today argued that robert hur or the Special Counsel who investigate joe biden bidens mishandling of classified information, that report helps them. How so and do buy it . Yeah. So let me translate this over into the legal world. Im not buying the argument. Let me right up front. The argument is something called selective prosecution, where a defendant can raise a defense. Its very, very rare to succeed get on this. I would say nationwide this is xx rate is close to zero on this. But if you can show Somebody Else did essentially the same thing. I did. That person was not prosecuted and i am being prosecuted and its for a bad reason. You can get a case thrown out and Donald Trumps lawyers, of course, are saying, well, look at the hur report, both guys knowingly he to some extent retained classified documents. Bidens not charge. I am charged, hence, selective prosecution. But the response from prosecutors and i think the better argument is, there are very big differences here. This is not similar enough to warrant dismissal starting with the fact that trump obstructed biden mostly cooperated different quantities of documents thats different conduct overall. So i think the judge is going to reject that argument, but i will say the hurt report does give trumps team some basis to make that argument. I dont think it will succeed, although we should note also that the hur report for all the handwringing democrats are doing about how he describes biden is aged, et cetera. Theres also a whole section where he talks about what trump did is so much worse. And heres why its almost as if robert hur was anticipating that argument. I mean, against almost as if it right, almost as if lets talk about the decision we just heard this Bombshell Filing in the manhattan da hushmoney case against trump. This is about trump Hiding Payments to Stormy Daniels to hide their alleged affair before the election of 2016 . The trial was set to start in two weeks. We all scheduled our Spring Breaks around it. Yes. And now, the District Attorneys open to a delay. Yeah. So the defense had asked for a 90 day delayed it, go through some discovery, and the surprise was that the prosecutor said they wouldnt be opposed to a 30 day delay. Now itll be up to the judge. So this judge could come back can say 30 days, 45 days out. Well give you 90 days. But whats astonishing to me, jake is this is the one case that was on the calendar. The other three criminal prosecutions are in limbo and even if he delays it, 45 days, lets say theres nothing that would require me to say absolutely. This will go you can always come back and delay it again every week, every filing, every little delay makes it possible. This may not go before the election. So this was a real shocker. So i said the other day that a lot of legal experts consider this the weakest of the prosecutions and i think some people in the Da Bragged Office objected to that. What whats your take on this . Decision and whats your take on how strong a case this. So it definitely is the least serious conduct of the four. I mean, two of the other ones relate to the effort to steal the 2020 election. And the third relates to classified documents. So i dont think theres any question this is the least serious that said its still a serious allegation. It might be the only one that could realistically go to trial before the election. And it is a virtual certainty now, now that both parties, when the defendant says we need 90 more days and the prosecutors even say we agree at least 30. Its going to get moved at least 30 days. And then its all sort of a Slippery Slope downhill. I mean, it gets moved 30 think about it like when if you have an air a flight on an airline, it gets delayed 20 minutes, then it gets the late and other 45 minutes, right weve all been there. Right. Are calling other airlines . Exactly. And its incremental and its not all at once. It just slides and it slides again and it slides again. And next thing you know, its a four hour delay. I feels like were going down that path even with this manhattan da, which seemed like the most likely. All right. So District Attorney bragg, i hope that i was a better answer than my going to get taxed its going to give were both going to get him well, like either way im not a lawyer. Leas what do you make of the sliding of this case . I mean, this was the one that was supposed to go to trial before the election. It was, but the fact that its getting bumped doesnt surprise me at all. Trial its are notoriously fluid. Thats true for civil cases. Thats true for criminal prosecutions. And it doesnt surprise me especially just given the gravity of whats at Stake Carrying for goodness sake, a former president the United States is going on trial. And i think both the prosecutors and the judge are going to take the extra step, go the extra mile to ensure that he has ample time to prepare his defense. Thats what caused the delay. Play today, the prosecutors acknowledged that the former president had gotten more documents and they wanted to play it safe. They didnt want to create the possibility of reversible error on appeal. So they agreed to give the former president s sufficient time to look at these new documents and formulate his defense. So i do think its surprising, but in The Grand Scheme of things, this does happen pretty often. North carolina four Corner Office once you know what im saying. All right. Well, not the clock. Elie honig, tom dupree. Thanks so much. Were also standing by for a judges decision and Fulton County, georgia decision that will determine whether District Attorney fani willis can stay on the Election Subversion Case that she brought against donald trump. 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