promptly issue an order on the matter. norm eisen and brandon van grack are back with me right now. norm, let s start with you. there is a big divide, right. there is the august date she wanted to state initially. there is the december date by the prosecutor. and then there is trump who says, after the election. was that ever realistic, after the election? no. good, one word answer. but that doesn t mean he won t get, it laura. because this is a judge, judge cannon, who has already made a pattern of pretty far out decisions, favoring donald from, in the litigation over the search warrant at mar-a-lago. she was struck down twice, by a very conservative, 11th circuit appellate panel. because she so favored him. and, who knows what she s going to do, but he shouldn t get it. why shouldn t he get it? and i think it goes to the december peace. but what we just talked about is the end date. but, the impart the partner
challenge under the federal judicial recusal law. i believe if an objective observer, jim, would say, well, this judge can t really be impartial here, the judge is supposed to step aside from the case. i think there are serious questions about that. and i suspect sooner or later either in her court or in that appellate body, the 11th circuit, because there are going to be a lot of things that go there immediately appealable, we re going to see those recusal issues emerge. and during campaign stops yesterday in georgia and north carolina trump blasted the indictment as, quote, ridiculous and baseless, a sentiment many of his voters agree with. we saw some evidence of that earlier in this program, we were playing some of those sound bites. but let s listen to what bill barr, his former attorney general, said. let s listen to this. and this idea of presenting trump as a victim here, a victim of a witch hunt, is ridiculous. yes, he s been a victim in the
would be in the most grave trouble. and i think donald trump is. nothing political about it to my mind. and what do you make of this trump-appointed judge, aileen cannon, getting this case? what thoughts run through your mind? she made some news last summer when she oversaw proceedings related to the mar-a-lago search, and there was some controversy around that. judge cannon s decisions in the initial stages following the search warrant, she froze the government investigation or use of the documents. she appointed a special master. both of those were slapped down strongly by an extremely conservative 11th circuit appellate panel. three judges, two trump appointees, one bush appointee. judge pryor, he may have been the most conservative of them all. and they took the strongest exception to her rulings using words like radical. so i think that presents a