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At each other, exchanged glances multiple times. truly extraordinary, wolf. >> paula, the big question tonight as you know is how long it could be before this all goes to trial. what comes next? >> wolf, this looks like it's going to be a rocket docket because judge chutkan, she did not handle today's hearing but she'll handle the case going forward. she's given the government just seven days to tell her when they think they can take this trial and how long the case will take to try. and then the defense attorneys have one week after that to give her the same information because the next heari...

It was an open question about whether he would be the want to stand up and speak during this hearing. we actually heard him speak several times. it was different than what we have heard before, we heard him enter his name agreed he understood the charges and then enter that plea of not guilty, interestingly before the hearing got started, the judge was running late there was about 15 minutes of a pretty quiet time in the courtroom people were just milling about, i'm told it was so quiet you could hear someone clicking there can. during that time, special counsel jack smith and the former presi...

They are signed paperwork, or to standard, the pre -- now have, bins and certainly a different -- that we saw for example in the new york arraignment where he was almost defiant. you saw the fist bump when he was in the courthouse, that was not -- >> and of course, one thing they talked about so much of the, and it seemed like a dispute that happened, what the trial is going to look like and what are we expecting on august 28th when they are back here? >> we are expecting to get a trial date this appears to be a rocket docket the judge has dave given seven days to report back to her with when ...

In it that is an exemption for defendants that are too busy or running for president. so it will be set at that august hearing date. >> why would it be a faster case to docket, do you see this as a much stronger case for the prosecution? >> it is not even that. although i do because this is much more of a sxhoncommonsensi case. someone is not happy and they try to overturn it. bad common sense, but it makes more common sense than, you know, was he supposed to have the documents, was he not, what was his intent. that is a harder case. but i say that it is a rocket docket not so much because the...

This is a simpler case, it's more streamlined. with three defendants, you have three defense teams, which means three opening statements, three closing arguments and every government witness is cross-examined three times. that's not true here. it doesn't involve classified information necessary to bring this case to trial. so it's simpler. now here is my bias. i come from the eastern district of virginia where i was a federal prosecutor. it's known as the rocket docket, and cases move with dispatch. my belief is this case can be tried before the election. i don't see any reason why it shouldn'...