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It's probably with good reason because there's no need for the government to try to prove that mr. donald trump desired violence, although, that certainly happened. the other statutes mentioned in the target letter are all compelling cases. in other words, that he tried to thwart the peaceful transition of presidential power. that in and of itself is as compelling a criminal case as i can imagine. >> without getting into the state courts because i know that's a separate situation, but in these federal charges, in your experience, the likelihood is these get charged. >> right. i come from the e...

D.c. judges are used to dealing with interference cases. every judge in the district has had one. they're very familiar with the constellation of facts around january 6, no classified documents and, of course, no aileen cannon. whether she will continue to be remains to be seen today. >> it's not necessarily the rocket docket like west virginia. >> no, but a number of people who have had a mountain of january 6 cases dumped onto their docket and have become accustomed to moving these cases at least at what we would consider a decent pace if not the eastern district of virginia pace. >> we have...

Contains a political argument and a legal argument. you have to put the political argument aside. when you continue cases for political arguments, you could say it could interfere with the iowa caucuses, then the debate, then the south carolina primary, and i don't think we can go down that path. those are jury selection issues. the legal arguments are not that crazy. if you do the math, they are really saying until after the election, which seems like forever, but it's 17 months as i count it. right now, judge cannon, is trying a case. it's that complicated medicare fraud case that was indict...

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...

Constitutionally done so nobody knows actually what would happen. that's really interesting, mark. we've been talking about the timeline of this. we heard prosecutors might want to fast track this case in florida while the trump team might want to delay this as much as possible. how do you see it playing out? there are certain federal courts in the united states, one here in the eastern district of virginia where most espionage cases are brought because it is a positive location for the government. it's called the rocket docket, as is the southern district of florida which means they go very q...