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how important this process is, to getting confirmation, as we saw what happened in 1986. more importantly, i think he took head on a lot of the critics and criticism of decisions that he s made and votes he s cast. and i thought in particular, with cory booker becoming historic, you saw the first sho for the 2020 democratic nomination for president. let s just put that on the table. certainly, that s part of the drama and theater of what he chose to do. but i also found it somewhat ironic that just in january of 2016, in legislation that he co-sponsored with mr. sessions, that celebrated those who walked from walked the selma mile, if you will, that he referred to him as it was a great honor to work with him and that he appreciated his commitment to civil rights. and yet now sees him as he referred to him as a danger with danger to our country, as he s been quoted to say. the politics is not lost here. i think everyone in this town understands that. and to have this stag ....
Evidence in the trial, including grand jury testimony from the witnesses who testified against trump. leading off our discussion tonight, is glenn kirschner, former federal prosecutor and msnbc legal analyst. he is the host of the justice matters podcast, and also with us again tonight is bradley p. moss, a national security attorney. thank you both for coming here. glenn, explain this move to us. it is a move to delay calls for concern about the case? no jonathan, i think it s thoroughly and surprising. i don t know that all legal analysts agree to everything all the time, but i think when we all saw judge aileen cannon set the trial date for august 14th, our immediate reaction was, that trial date is not going to hold. now, we understand why she did it, the speedy trial act provides that somebody is to be taken trial within 70 days of their agreement. so judge cannon i think ....
Leading off our discussion tonight, is glenn kirschner, former federal prosecutor and msnbc legal analyst. he is the host of the justice matters podcast, and also with us again tonight is bradley p. moss, a national security attorney. thank you both for coming here. glenn, explain this move to us. it is a move to delay calls for concern about the case? no jonathan, i think it s thoroughly and surprising. i don t know that all legal analysts agree to everything all the time, but i think when we all saw judge aileen cannon set the trial date for august 14th, our immediate reaction was, that trial date is not going to hold. now, we understand why she did it, the speedy trial act provides that somebody is to be taken trial within 70 days of their agreement. so judge cannon i think appropriately set a trial date for about 63 days from the ....
That makes sense, if you could appeal everything all the time, you would almost never have a path to trial. yes and no. donald trump s team is going to try to stop evan corcoran from appearing at the trial and take his notes out of evidence. they want it not to be admissible. are there scenarios where attorney/client privilege is pierced only to not be allowed in trial, does that happen often? well, first, the piercing of attorney/client privilege doesn t happen often and it certainly doesn t happen often in criminal trials. like you said earlier, much of this is unprecedented, but we do have case law around attorney/client privilege and the crime fraud exception, which is applicable here. my guess is that the first ruling on the crime fraud exception issued by a federal district court judge in the district of columbia will hold up and that the government will be able to introduce this evidence at trial. that might be the basis for the thing we discussed a moment ago, an interlocut ....