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County, georgia. i appreciate it. joining me now for the legal of all of this, glenn kirschner. msnbc legal analyst, former federal prosecutor, and host of the justice matters podcast. glenn, because justice matters, let's start with mark meadows's motion to dismiss. filed late last night by him he is claiming the -- clause gives him immunity from prosecution. he preview that defense in the notice of removal sent to the federal judge in the northern district of georgia in august 28th through an evidentiary hearing. i wanted to get your top thoughts on what you think are the chances of his succ...

On august 28th. >> here's what i wonder, maybe problematic about having 19 defendants on the georgia case. when you see, obviously a move like this is made by mark meadows, giuliani, also lobbying to get this pushed to a federal court, along with mark meadows as well. we know that fani willis wants it in march of 2024. all of that in mind, if you're looking at timeline, you're looking at already details from two people, knowing if i do the math, right 16 others plus. also the former president. does this significantly push that timeline back? >> i think that six months for a rico case that is c...

Things about this filing coming now is because mark meadows and -- seeking to move a state court criminal prosecution to federal court and that motion is still pending from the federal judge, judge steve jones -- that has not been decided yet and, individual process of things, you would first file the emove, have that decided in, filed a motion to dismiss. however, meadows seems intent on speeding up the process and he makes the claim that as a part of the removal analysis the judge also has to decide whether or not he could potentially have these charges dismissed under the immunity -- that h...

Argument for doing this, but it's still not a very good one. this is a statute applies to both federal and civil cases. a federal official, who gets sued in state court, gets prosecuted in state court, can ask to send that case to federal courts. it is still a state lawsuit under the same state statue, but it's decided by a federal judge and the whole gist of this entire procedure is that the person who's being sued in state court or prosecuted in state court, has a uniquely federal defense that they can't use in state court, so, that would be unfair. if you get the case into federal court, th...

Phone up to his ear and saying, never! how about never? that's what this trial dates make us think of. this is trump's effort to put things off and definitely. the judge won't let him get away with that. >> just to remind our viewers, judge tanya chutkan in the election interference case, august 28th, will actually be setting the trial date. we'll actually have some clarity to that as it comes up. there were some reporting, joyce, i happened yesterday. and -- she's, roee could be wrong, but i like that name. so, kenneth chesebro, there's actually video of him on january six outside of the u.s....