material pages in the d.c. trump case, 12.8 million pages, okay? if it makes you feel any better the key documents are approximately 47,000 pages. transcripts of witnesses, it is a roadmap to the case. what is your reaction to that? what do you do with that? you spend a lot of time reviewing documents and you ask for look, a defendant in a criminal case is supposed to be tried within 70 days. on these complex white collar cases it is not uncommon for it to take years. i have one case that is a criminal, very complex criminal fraud case in its ninth year. so depending on the resources, depending on how large and substantial the evidence is, it can take years, sandra. sandra: that in itself is news. let s play this sound out of
she began the hearing by saying both sides are incorrect in their assessments of when this case could go to trial. it s unrealistic to think it could go to trial as soon as january as the special counsel wanted. certainly not realistic to delay until april 2026. we await to see when judge chutkan thinks this case should go to trial, what s a reasonable date. the tea leaves are looking like, she says, sometime in the spring or summer of next year. based on what you said, prior to be told to take the temperature down, that john lauro was saying for a federal prosecutor to suggest we can go to trial in four months is not only absurd, but a violation of the obligation to due justice. kristy, 12.8 million pages sounds like a lot. it was done in five different rounds here. the defendant, the trump team, they have certain resources not all defendants have, right?
documents, about 47,000 pages, but still, 12.8 million pages they say they simply cannot get this done in that amount of time. shifting gears to georgia, mark meadows is the former chief of staff of donald trump. he have argues that his case should not be in state court in atlanta. it should be brought to federal court because he was a federal employee when this happened. a judge in georgia expected to make some sort of decision on that today. the former president has not moved to change his venue from local to federal but federal would expand the jury pool and also might keep the case and trial off camera. in state court in georgia you can watch all these proceedings unfold. in federal court here and across the country you cannot. mike. mike: david spunt outside federal court. thank you very much. nordstrom s facebook store in
going to be some consideration of the election, and he is presumed is innocent, and the former president is, and so he has a right to raise those things of what is going on, and the claim they would try to knock him off of the campaign trail, and the same time, she has the interest to move the case forward an she will find something, but remember that the trial dates move. so even if we see a date set for some time later next year, there s a likelihood that the tape is going to be moved by appeals and the appellant court could issue a stay, and a number of things to keep happening, but this is to keep the train on the tracks to move forward to some resolution. michael a at the core of the defense s argument to try to push this thing back is the mountain of evidence that they would have to go through, and something like 12.8 million of pages of discovery. the fact is though that the defense handed over much of the documents, a lot of the documents produced by donald
documents, they won t slow anything down, and to ken s point about the judge s comments about discovery and living in the electronic age, when you have 12.8 million documents, what you have is a situation that goes something like this: i email you and ken a transcript from the january 6th committee hearing. you email that, each of you, to five or six people, and they forward it on to people. all of that can come back in discovery, so there s this duplication. that s where computers come in. they rule out duplicates. then you can use word searches to narrow down to the documents that you need. and the government in this case has already vouched that they ve given the defense a roadmap to the documents that they ll be using at trial, giving them a real jump-start that defendants don t typically have. so this is six plus months to go to trial. that s very reasonable in one defendant case with only four