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Ryan brighthouse, former district attorney in fulton county, georgia. great to see you again. for those of us who don't practice law in georgia, how do these speedy trials work? what are you watching for? >> sure. to start, you're guaranteed the right to a speedy trial? both the state constitution. we'll use this as a strategy to trial factor for whatever advantage they think they can have. ultimately they want to see if they can catch the prosecution with their pants down, so to speak, and see if they're not as ready as they think they r. it's going to be treerg to see how it goes. >> how muc...

Still, when you zoom out to consider what it was like during the height of the pandemic, health officials aren't sounding the alarm yet. they're closely watching a highly mutated emerging variant and hoping the next booster will slow the spread. with the flu and rsv likely to ramp up this fall, doctors recommend having covid tests at home to help tell the difference. emilie ikeda, nbc news. we have a lot to cover in our second hour of "chris jansing reports." let's get right to it. at this hour, two trials, two cities, and the highest stakes day in court for donald trump. in georgia, the f...

Interest in accurate, and -- what do you say to that? >> there's a couple answers that are pretty clear. in general, the federal government and certainly the president and his staff do not have any official role in overseeing the presidential election. that's pretty categorically clear that they don't. there's another point to be made on top of that that was made forcefully in an editorial that came out in the last couple days. that is actually being involved in any sort of political process involving an election violates the hatch act. so it's not only not within the affirmative responsibilit...

Giuliani at 9:45 on ha same day, and the others to follow after that. certainly that's what we're watching and that is the backdrop that we're now seeing this hearing in federal court get under way, set to start at 10:00 a.m. mark meadows, the former white house chief of staff is the one who made the appeal to say, listen, because i was acting in my federal capacity as the chief of staff at the white house at the time of his alleged actions, he believes this is a matter that should be heard in federal court. he and several others have made that claim. the former president has not yesterday fil...

Saying they needed time to prepare. but judge chutkan said, "mr. trump, like any defendant, will have to make the trial date work regardless of his schedule." today mr. trump blasted it as an attempt to undermine his presidential campaign calling it "election interference." it's yet another collision between the republican front-runner's legal calendar and the height of campaign season. that march 4th start date just one day before super tuesday. three weeks later the start of mr. trump's trial in manhattan, where a d.a. is accusing him of concealing hush money payments to a porn star. he's pl...