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judge chutkan is a no nonsense judge and i don t think she appreciated the bombastic comments claiming he was not only representing donald trump, but the u.s. constitution and the american body politic. and, you know, ultimately she didn t buy his legal arguments either, that he needed more than two years to get ready to try this case because of what he described as this huge volume of documents that the government is turning over in discovery. she appeared to adopt the government s perspective on this, which is, yes, there are a lot of documents, 12.8 million pages, but we live in an electronic age and you can use key word searches to make sense of them, most of them are duplicative anyway, a lot of them came from donald trump himself and a lot of this evidence had been made public months ago by the january 6th committee. so, you know, judge chutkan also asked john lauro to provide a reasonable estimate of how long he actually needed, but he didn t get off that april 2026
yesterday s hearing, but he was quick to respond, as you can imagine, on social media. in one post, he wrote, quote, trump-hating judge, blastering her for scheduling the trial a day before super tuesday. he claimed he d appeal judge chutkan s decision, something he does not have the power to do. lisa, i ll start with you. on the date of march 4th, ambitious compared certainly to what the trump team wanted, which was a kind of outrageous demand to push it into 2026. a little bit later than what jack smith wanted but not a whole lot later. not a whole lot later. but reasonable, willie. i think one of the reasons it is reasonable is for the ways in which judge chutkan was discussing with john lauro yesterday. the fact these 12.8 million pages of discovery about which he made a whole lot weren t actually 12.8 million pages of discovery. she noted for him how much of that is duplicative, how much of that is already in the public domain, and how much of it they ve already had in their pos
hole in the republican argument. they may blame biden s green agenda for higher prices on the forecourt, but in truth that s not at the root of it. and if you look further you will see that right now america is in fact pumping oil at a faster rate than ever before. us oil production is forecast to average an all time high of 12.8 million barrels a day this year, and will keep growing to 13.1 million a day in 202a. the president will most likely point to this hurricane barrelling in on florida and will again tell the media that climate change is as an existential crisis. but the evidence suggests the world s biggest polluter is slow walking the promises it has made to cut oil and gas production. i m joined now by ben lefebvre, oil and gas policy reporter at politico. then, this was your story that we saw this morning. the figures are startling because when you look at it, it is going on the wrong direction. it, it is going on the wrong direction- it, it is going on the wrong direction.
if we had that, we would rise to the top because we have more energy when you add oil, gas and coal. but the truth is america is pumping oil at a faster rate than ever before. us oil production is forecast to average an all time high of 12.8 million barrels a day this year, and will keep growing to 13.1 million a day in 202a. when you look at those figures, i m not sure whyjoe biden is why public in saintjoe biden is turning off the taps. he s not even sticking to his campaign pledge to cut oil production on federal land, so why is that the rhetoric that we are getting from republican leaders? unfortunately we are in a political season where lots of candidates are trying to score points, but the reality is we are still creating