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Proceedings against a current president. >> lisa, quicker than in other places. how quick could we be seeing this process under way? >> reporter: that's a very interesting question, josé, and it depends in large part on what kind of pretrial motions of president's lawyers make. this is a guy whose m.o. is delay, delay, delay and nowhere is that more true than in his position as a litigant. so i expect them to make all sorts of motions, including ones that are sort of prefaced by his meeting with the special counsel and department of justice last week where they raised the spectre of prosecuto...

Win. all donald trump wants to do is get to january 20th, 2025, when he hopes to be the president once again and escape the grasp of the department of justice and the special counsel's office, josé. >> and garrett is outside bedminster where we know trump is currently. he was the one that broke the news of this indictment, garrett. he and his allies have been speaking out while the special counsel's office and the justice department have been silent, which is typical. is this about trump wanting to control the narrative? >> reporter: oh, absolutely, i think it is. i mean, this is also the sec...

Followed this investigation for the last several months. judge cannon as you noted was the judge who appointed a special master and in doing so slowed down the fbi and department of justice's investigation at that time substantially and for several months. she was also overturned on appeal twice by the federal court of appeals in this area, the 11th circuit. the fact that the case has been assigned to her is not something nbc news has independently confirmed, however, if she does have the case it could be for one of two reasons, first, it could be random. usually criminal cases in this distric...

Indictment is sealed and we haven't heard about it. >> absolutely. we could end up with two defendants in the case, it would be donald trump and this other person. it could also be, though, that that person has pleaded guilty and is cooperating and so they are not listed as a defendant in this indictment, but in the charge it would say donald trump and they would name the person who was a conspirator a all remains to be seen but at the very least a potential person to flip if you are thinking about this in terms of what jack smith is thinking, he is thinking an underling if that is a conspirat...

Unbiased way but she made several rulings overturned quickly by her superiors in federal appellate court that were seen as unusual. andrew can speak about this more. she has a moment, a chance here in american history to oversee a fair trial and i hope she does that. >> andrew, my understanding is judges like this would be selected randomly. so it just happened to end up back in her lap, but given her history in the case, would this be a situation in which because of public perception of, you know, whatever, they would choose to intentionally shift this away from her court? >> so i think there...