President biden, made a rare admission that he is keeping up with trump s legal woes. have you seen donald trump s mugshot yet? mister president i did see it on television. what did you think? handsome guy. wonderful guy. joining us now, aremelissa redmon, former prosecutor in the fulton county district attorney s office, and now a professor at the university of georgia school of law. we also have joyce vance, former u.s. attorney for the northern district of alabama. and barbara mcquade, former u.s. attorney for the eastern district of michigan. melissa, joyce, barb, it s great to have the three of you with us. melissa, let me start with you. talk to me about georgia s speedy trial law here. it s obviously now being front and center with what we ve seen. what does it mean, that both sidney powell and kenneth chesebro want to move up their trial? and is there any benefit to them in doing that? right, i think that for these particular defendants, they have a lot at stake. they are both practicing
Underway after the surrender. yes it s already started. that s not happening in georgia, right? it will not likely not have until september, is that right? perhaps. and we ll see. the judge has the sort of expedited schedule, and so we ll see what other motions get fired even before september, right? already we ve seen mark meadows trying to remove this to federal court. we don t know what kind of effect that might have on this. we ll have to wait and see. we were still in like, this is like the first stage of what s going to be, like you said, weeks, months-long, perhaps a years-long process. we just watched literally the first baby step of this. barb, as we talk about the issue of severability, i have gone to television law school, and we talk about moving this case into federal court. if kenneth chesebro, it s really still unclear, even now. a. if he is successful sorry, if chesebro is successful in severing s case, that bodes well sorry, if donald trump is
That. or at least should be for anybody who doesn t want to be there. or still does in some cases. not the white house. barb, when we talk about the stress test, it seems like a lot of it is left at the discretion of prosecutors in terms of what they re gonna complain about and the judges and how they rule against a defendant violating the conditions of bail. by virtue of the fact that trump was fingerprinted and mugshot it in a way that he has not been in any of these other criminal indictments, should we infer anything about the way that georgia s gonna deal with this defendant? is it going to be a tougher line there ito? or is it premature to suppose anything based on the processing thus far? well, on the one hand, i don t want to make any assumptions based on one small data point. but, you know, if you are to generalize in big terms, federal court is the very
Think will be a lot stronger smaller than 19 defendants. yeah it s the calm before the storm, joyce. when you talk about wilson s preparedness, there is something happening on monday that i love to get yours and barb opinions on. fani willis has called in a couple witnesses that could prove very pivotal in mark meadows argument. one of them is brad raffensperger, and also is cheap investigator frances watson. now, watson was one of the people that physically prevented mark meadows from entering the space where the cobb county audit was being performed. i think on december 22nd, when he traveled to georgia. and meadows personally arranged the call between trump and watson. again, francis watson, raffensperger s chief investigator,
I would suspect that in this case, this judge has acted with quite a bit of dispatch, in denying the motion to stay, the surrender of two of the defendants, and i would think within a week or so we probably would have the answer. we may not have it on monday. it may be the kind of thing the judge would reflect on it and issue a written opinion. lisa rubin, and vaughn hillyard, thank you both, barb will be back with us after the break. a break down is growing and complicated case, surrounding former president trump, and the 11th hour lawyer swap which has a legal analyst saying we may come to regret it. we re back in 60 seconds. but you know what is? myplan from verizon. (vo) football season is here. get nfl sunday ticket from youtubetv on us. a $449 value. plus, get a free samsung galaxy z flip5. only on verizon. shelves. shelves that know what taste buds want.