is going to be a permanent member of this team. we ll see. and so that is what they re working on now. and kaitlan, judge cannon, we should point out, she s a trump appointee. she did a trump-friendly ruling that was overturned months ago. i know that there are people on the prosecution team who are wary of her. how does the trump team view her? do they think that she s going to be an asset? they re thrilled. i mean, they could not be happier to have her on their team or to have her overseeing this i mean. she is a trump appointee. she was picked in the days after he lost the 2020 election. that s obviously not a comment on whether or not she s a good judge or a bad judge or indifferent. but they re thrilled because they saw how she was what her rulings were when they went to her for the special master case last fall. that was when she got overruled by an appeals court in a pretty embarrassing fashion for a judge because basically they said she was giving trump specia
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going to go after the five days? could this bog down the process? and doesn t this kind of just underline the fact that this is classified material, that he had it? it absolutely underscores that point. and the idea of trying to get the attorneys representing and having them available to view the security clearances is part of the rocket docket, right? the idea of having the attorneys treat this client and the judge treat the client in the same way other people, not to slow roll and take your time and figure out do i want this person or that. the whole goal here is to expedite this entire thing, the actual justice system. the idea of security clearances, though, is going to be a tough one because on the one hand you ve got the notion that look, if they re so classified and so sensitive it has to be enough for an indictment of a former president then what is the substitute for the jury, not just the attorneys but the jury to hear the evidence? that s probably the sepa format we re t