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 judge aileen cannon up next. lisa, you re sticking around. garrett and ryan, thank you very much. again, south florida documents case. judge aileen cannon is holding a hearing on a trial date, among other motions. what might she rule? news out of fulton county,
i think she will set it a few months at the most and what she did in the medicare case, going on now. new complex points came up so she kept resetting it. this is not a complicated case. the january 6th case, if there is one,s complicated case. so i said the opposite a moment ago. i said this case was more complicated than january 6th. you re telling me i have it wrong. why is this more complicated than january 6? there are a finite number of documents, witnesses. this case is very strong and the government has estimated in writing this case should take 21 days. one of the things the judge will be talking about today is each side, how long do you estimate the trial will be? usually judges say i think we can do it in a less period of time than that.
dishonest. he said you can t do that. he s running for president. this case is tinged by the fact it s the biden administration prosecutoring his punitive opponent in the election. harbaugh said that claim is false. the special counsel was appointed to insulate this case from politics, he said. all the people prosecuting the case are political appointees and politics plays no role. that was the most dramatic exchange. did you see anything from judge aileen cannon and those arguments, anything you can glean from her reaction? reporter: so, as i said, cannon appeared to brush aside arguments from one of trump s lawyers that you can t pick a jury in this case while trump is running for president because there s so much media coverage that it s too much and he can t get a fair trial. she brushed that aside, said that s not what i m focusing on. she was focusing on the complexity of the case, the volume of documents that the
light more and it ends up going along a wavelength and, if i get this wrong, people out there, i apologize, on a wavelength, it goes through something called a transparency window in the atmosphere and out into deep space and beyond. i asked the professor, i said, now are we messing up space? like, here, space, have our heat? he said what we re doing is reflecting back the sun s heat, we re just ber septembering it and bouncing it back with this. that s sort of my rough understanding of how this works. it s wavelengths light travels along. my timer is set from one year from now to get this paint when it goes to market. appreciate it. breaking news out of florida, where ken dilanian just left the courtroom where today s classified documents pretrial hearing took place. ken, did they decide anything? reporter: the judge did not
with respect to his civil trials, he said i have these two civil trials already scheduled. we all know from the e. jean carroll trial that occurred that when given an opportunity to participate in a civil trial, a fairly limited duration, donald trump didn t take it. he didn t show up in person. would a judge take that into consideration, all of the facts, all of the circumstances, all of the past behavior? i think she or he would and you should note the department of justice took that into consideration in propoing that december trial date purposely working around the other things that are on trump s schedule, a trial, the march trial on the d.a. s hush money case. so many lowers. it s also before primary season so they were working in a strategic way to find a time that is fair and open. we are watching to see how judge aileen cannon might rule.