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Especially mark meadows was not acting in his federal official capacity as chief of staff from the president. >> and what are the next steps here now in this georgia case? >> the first step is going to be that all of these defendants have to be arraigned meaning they have to appear before court is unsure whether they will appear in person or virtually. at that court appearance a judge will formally let them know what the charges are against him. and ask them to enter a plea. whether the plea is of guilty or not guilty. obviously we're expecting a plea of not guilty for each of these 19 defenda...

Framework of everybody's next steps to get a look at it and prepare for trial. >> now to you, james. you hear this date, january 2nd, and by many peoples estimation, many attorneys i've spoken with, that is a very fast turnaround for the defendant. is there any realistic chance that the special prosecutor's request for the january 2nd date that the judge actually goes for that? >> like i said earlier, i think we end up with a winter trial date. i don't think it does early january, but i do think that she is going to put him on a strict motion schedule. the motion schedule you saw there was ear...

Defense is going to want to subpoena the january 6 commission to see if there is anything exculpatory there and look at the grand jury testimony which is something that doesn't happen but in this case because of the unique charges, they might want to look into whether it was charged appropriately. so there is a number of disc discovery requests that will happen and that will take several months and then she'll set a motion schedule that will also include pretrial motions, motions to dismiss, motions for discovery, motions to change venue, all of those things are kind of coming into play. if yo...

Documents is certainly going to take time. the defense counsel -- to the extent that we know -- has not even been cleared yet to be able to see things. and there will be lots of litigation on that. one thing that may not be great news for all of us in the -- who comment on things is, we may not know a lot about what goes on in the -- litigation, because it's classified. so, it may be happening in -- old courtrooms. so, we may get a sense of who is appealing a ruling on one side or the other. but there may be a lot that happens behind the scenes. the other thing that is interesting about her or...

At this point. in terms of security currencies, they are going to make the super, quick normally it could take, days but this is going to take a couple days for these people once they get the lawyers, given the security clearance, they're going to give that down, they will go into the church and say, we are an open, book we will give, everything it will be done in the next couple weeks. they will have all they need, the judge sat down a motion schedule, sat down in trial, date and let's get this to trial and six months. that is what they ought to be doing. >> so realistically this could be a t...