my office will seek a speedy trial in this matter, consistent with the public interest and the rights of the accused. trump on trial in august? the first court date is officially set, and it is just eight weeks away. tonight, what it all means for the possibility of a trial before the election and, the motives of the trump appointed judge in charge of it. then after a five year investigation by a trump appointed prosecutor, hunter unlikely that the august 14th start date, the one that is two months from today, will hold. it s fairly common practice for a judge to set an early start date as a sort of benchmark, only to see the trial slip further and further down the calendar. the prosecution needs time to prepare its arguments, and trump s lawyers deserve time to mount a reasonable defense of their client. the defense has not yet received, for instance, the classified evidence as part of the discovery process, something which, on its own, could had significant
grievances so intense, and so compulsive, that donald trump can always be baited into going on and on and on about it. but his constant carping about 2020 is, i would hazard, perhaps not a winning campaign strategy. and his legal troubles are not helping either. the conventional wisdom has been that trump s federal indictment would not move the needle for 2024, particularly not in the republican primary. a brand-new post indictment polling shows, maybe that is not such a solid bet. that is next. volunteering! playing pickleba.! we planned well for
got plus paid. your second defense secretary is not supporting you, called you irresponsible. this, week you and your white house called your white house chief of staff, john kelly, we candid effective and born with a very small. brian you called your white house chief of staff mick mulvaney a born loser. and your first defense ecuador, a james mattis, the world s most overrated s overrated general. you call your white house press secretary milquetoast, and multiple times you referred to your transportation secretary, elaine chao, as mitch mcconnells china loving wife. so, why did you hire all of them in the first place? because i hired 10 to 1 that were fantastic. [laughter] it s the sheer length and the straightens of delivery that really sells that bit. now, of course, trump could not sit down for an interview without airing his favorite obsession, the number one grievance the, 2020 election the company lost, and baier, to his credit, again, did not let him off the hook
to gobble up the spotlight in a time where he is the leader of everybody s brain worms. yeah, but this is what is so fascinating to me. so, what you have seen is a polarization between the party coalition sorting a long high trust, low trust. and you have increasingly the center to center left has a higher social trust coalition. yeah. the center to center right, to the right wing, is a low trust coalition. and so this migration, where rfk jr. comes from the left i mean, he s obviously the most famous name in democratic politics but also how he aligns his politics, but the people who are most enthusiastic about him are roger stone and elon musk and joe rogan and donald trump has good things to say to him, and he s getting all this amplification, because that kind of stuff is the beating heart of right-wing politics right now. yes. but also, because i think a lot of people are trying to use him as a spoiler candidate. the disruptions steve bannon has, for months and mo
and the republican primary is expected to begin in earnest in right around the time that the ex president even more legal jeopardy including e. jean carroll s second defamation suits in january, near the expected date for the iowa caucus, and trump s new york criminal trial in march, shortly after super tuesday. andrew weissmann served as the prosecutor for special counsel robert mueller s investigation. he s coast of the podcast prosecuting down trump. and he joins me now. it s good have you here. your initial reaction just to that date in the order from the judge? so, i agree that it is better than not. but i do think that, as you said, people should not be counting on anything even close to this. the litigation over classified documents is certainly going to take time. the defense counsel to the extent that we know has not even been cleared yet to be able to see things. and there will be lots of litigation on that.