proposed a trial date for donald trump's georgia election case. we have the details about the ex presidents formal lawyers who told willis once they reached plea agreements. plus, george santos's last stand in just over a week. the republican could finally be expelled from congress. also, the maga fiction, the magnification of the gop. al secret congresswoman barbara lee but the vile rhetoric coming from the right. i am ayman mohyeldin, let's get started. >> we start this hour with major developments in fulton county district attorney fani willis's election interference case against donald trump. just within the last 24 hours we have learned when we could expect to see the disgraced ex president and his codefendants had to trial in georgia. prosecutors have requested in august 5th, 2024 trial date. that is just three months before the general election. willis's proposal kept off a busy week in court. on thursday, sct mcafee judged a request from the office from an emergency perspective order, after videos from key witnesses in the case were leaked to news outlets. willis's office asked for the order after part of the videotapes -- janetll and sidney powell, and kenneth chesebro, and bail bondsman scott hall were all somehow made public. now, we should remind you that they were among those 19 codefendants charged by willis back in august. however, they have all since pled guilty, and have agreed to cooperate with the attorney general's office. win the filing, willis's office argued that an order was necessary, quote, to protect witnesses, and to safeguard sensitive and confidential information during the discovery process. the d.as fice also said the leaks were, quote, clearly intended to intimidate witnesses in this case, subjecting them to harassment and threats prior to trial. jonathan miller, an attorney for former ccoun election supervisor misty hampton, who is one of the codefendants, took responsibility for the leak. miller said that he released a video because he believed it was in the clients, in his client's best interest. the recordings have brought to light previously undisclosed details about the efforts of trump and his allies to reverse his election loss. here's what janet eilish told trump's deputy chief of staff at the time had to say after she warned him that the president was quickly running out of options to challenge joe biden's win. >> and he said to me, and i kind of, in a excited tone, while we don't care, and we're not gonna leave. i said what do you mean? he said, well, the boss, meaning president trump, and everyone understood the boss, that's what we all called him, he said the boss is not going to leave under any circumstances. we are just going to stay in power. and i said to him, well it doesn't quite work that way you realize. he said we don't care. >> -- according to the washington post, who obtained portions of these video statements, kenneth chesebro also disclosed to prosecutors details about a previously unreported white house meeting, during which he says he briefed trump on election challenges in arizona, it's summarized a memo about states of elector in key battleground states. chesebro's recollection could provide evidence that trump was well aware of the fraudulent elector plan. now, remember, these are just snippets of hours long conversations that those witnesses had with fani willis's office. that means more bombshells could actually be revealed when these codefendants turn cooperators take the stand, and give out all of their details. let's bring in our panel for the hour, jessica levinson, professor at loyola law school. hayes brown, writer numb editor for msnbc daily. and danielle moodie, host of woke a f daily, and host of democracy, and the new abnormal podcast. great to have all of you with us. jessica, talk to us about that protective order issued by judge mcafee. what does it mean for the case moving forward? >> it means that you and i, and other people will get less information potentially about information that is exchanged between the parties. essentially what the judge said, and what it looks like the party has agreed to, is that there is some sensitive information that will be subject to this protective order, and that there may be a difference in how information is shared. i know the prosecution had said there are certain information that they don't want to just hand over to the defense counsel. instead they will say, come on in, take a look, take notes. but it essentially means that there will be less potentially in public, in the public eye. that doesn't mean that this is operating in some sort of unconstitutional secrecy. it just means that for purposes of the administration of justice, of protecting the jury pool, of protecting witnesses, the judge has decided that a protective order is appropriate here. and the prosecution had actually asked for one back in september. the judge had said, can i have an update on this? the emergency hearing was kind of an acceleration of that request. >> hayes, you heard about gender dallas told prosecutors, according to dance give you know. quote, the boss is not gonna leave under any circumstances. a statement like that, honestly, a place is trump right at the top of the chain of command. because that is been a central question in all of this when it comes to the plot to overturn the election, or election subversion efforts. how damning are these revelations for the ex president's case do you think? >> very i would say. the fact that, it was already damning the fact that several of his former lawyers, who he had been planning on throwing onto the bus himself said, i was just doing what they told me too, the fact that several of them have now come out, and told the prosecution, look, we were the ones who are actually doing what we were told here. janet alice saying, relaying dance gavino's line that, we're not going anywhere. if it were anyone else, that could just be bluster. like no, we're making sure that this happens. but given what we know now, given our hindsight, it is very hard to hear that, into things yourself, oh, that was just them trying to show confidence, ensure of the fact that they're gonna do their best to make sure that they can stay in office. the fact that this is now public, that i agree with, i agree with fani willis, that it is probably out there to try to make it so these lawyers who -- testify -- considering how now the prosecution will still be, how much the prosecution actually house a lean on during trial. >> by the sound of it, hazel looks like there is agreement to your analysis from the peanut gallery there. and that dog that was barking. danielle, i have to ask you about something that ex trump attorney, sydney powell, till prosecutor about trump's believe he won the 2020 election. take a listen to this. >> all his instincts told him he had been defrauded, that the election was a big fraud. >> did he ever point to any kind of proof, or evidence, or anything he was getting from his other attorneys? or experts? >> well he talked about seeing the vote go backwards on the tv. just general instincts of something wasn't right here. >> general instinct that something was not right here. how do you think trump's so-called instincts will hold up as evidence in a fraud in a court of law? >> i don't think his instincts really matter. because he was never going to leave the white house at all. we know that. we understand that now. i think that's the problem here, eamonn, is the fact that we continue to believe that this is a normal set of circumstances. the fact that judges are having to go to this length in order to protect jurors, and in order to protect the integrity of this trial, it shows us just how dangerous donald trump and all of his stick of fans are. this is not a normal trial. none of these are. the fact that we have jurors who are in danger, the fact that we have law clerks in danger, whose information is being put out, things are being leaked, if this were any other person, it would be considered a mob boss. a mob trial. this person, donald trump, he would not be free to continue to make comments, not beacon free to continue what they're doing. but we continue to shrug this off as if this were normal behavior. donald trump's instincts are going to take over america. donald trump's instincts will destroy democracy, as is the republican party that is holding him up as their martyr. and i think that should be the alarm that we continue to sound. >> jessica, this week the d.a. fani willis asked a judge to revoke the bond agreement for one of trump's codefendants, harrison floyd, citing his recent comments on social media and on podcast that she made amounted to a pattern, that she says amounts to a pattern of intimidation towards codefendants and witnesses. how likely is it that floyd could end up back in jail? >> eventually possible. but i think that it will look much like what happens when the president, and the president violates a gag order. which first, it is a smaller punishment, a slap on the wrist, a monetary fine. and then eventually, if the violations escalate in the case of the gag order, or in the case of this defendant who has been making some troubling statements on social media, podcasts, then you could potentially see the bonjour vote, or the case of the gag order, to finish up the analogy, you could potentially see someone jailed for that. i don't think that's where we're going. but that is the nuclear option that is of course what the district attorney is asking for here. >> hayes, floyd has attacked witnesses in this case, like janet ellis, georgia secretary of state brad raffensperger, is he taking a page out of donald trump's book here? that he knows could, work and get him even more endearment from donald trump? >> i think what's wild about this is he taking a page from his own playbook. this is exactly what he was indicted for, intimidating witnesses, including ruby friedman. the fact that he is now turned around, and taking the social media -- going up and having people allegedly go to rudy, ruby friedman store, i think it is a shift in terms of tactics, but not overall strategy. like this is what he was doing in donald trump's name all along. so i am not particularly surprised that he is trying to push the line, push the boundaries. to your point, yes, this is very trumpian. this is very much similar to what trump is doing when it during these windows, when the gag orders against him are lifted, he and his allies are going on to attack the people who were supposed to be protected under the gag order. so this is all part in parcel with the overall trumpian world view of someone, have to be convincing the world that everyone is actually against me. and doing anything i can to spin that narrative. >> danielle, we finally have a proposed trial date, august 5th, 2024. earlier this week a willis says she anticipates the trial will take many months, and wrap u around early 2025, with proceedings underway during the final stretch of the 2024 presidential election. obviously this has a tremendous amount of significance, because it could mean something very significant for the voters, but ultimately, if there is no verdict or before election day, you could have a scenario whereby a president who does not have part in power over this case is elected, in fani willis, or perhaps the jury and georgia finds donald trump guilty while he is the president of the united states. >> it's absolutely disastrous. the idea we could have a president of the united states, somebody that is duly elected, we think, right at this time, that is standing trial of a verdict that we won't know until after inauguration day, it's absolutely preposterous. it's also preposterous that republican party would have this person be at the top of their ticket to begin with. donald trump is ahead of the field by some 30 points right now. a man that has four indictments, and 91 charges. this could potentially, in a 50/50 toss-up, be the next president of the united states, it's absolutely wild. and it should set off alarms for everyone that is conscious and paying attention. >> all right panel, please stick around, we're just getting started. coming, up our george santos's days in congress numbered? 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