rule. we got some insights into their thinking. there was a heated discussion from both sides particularly about scheduling this case and how quickly it can go to trial. judge cannon appeared to brush aside the arguments from the trump side that, because of all the publicity around him running for president, they can t pick a jury before the presidential election. she didn t have much patience for that. but she appeared to have sympathy for the argument that this case is so complex that they can t follow the prosecution s blueprint and have a trial as early as december. some of the details that emerged about that is that the government is turned over 1.1 million pages of documents and more than a thousand days of video footage, cctv footage. while the justice department has tried to delineate which of that footage is important to their case and make it easier if the defense, trump s lawyers are saying we have to look at all of it in order to fairly represent our clients. they also argu
she has the body to enforce this if she wants to. this is a complicated case, not as complicated as the january 6th case, does donald trump s team have an argument about the vast amount of material and what they need to go through to start being able to prepare a defense for him? no, no. i ll tell you why, the department of justice never considers that a valid excuse. they will dump millions and say have at it. here they re identified for them 4,500 pages of key documents. that almost never happens. they have gone above and beyond to provide timely discovery. trump s team have ample opportunity to go through it. judge aileen cannon has had a case delayed 18 months to go through all of the evidence so
lawyers have to go through in order to fairly represent their client and whether also there will be all these motions they ll have to litigate outside of trial, like, for example, whether there should have been a grand jury in washington when the case is being held in florida. she appeared to ask harder questions i would say of the government on that score than of the defense. we ll have to wait and see how she rules. lisa, what do you make of what ken just reported? it s interesting that judge cannon was not moved by the impossible to pick a jury argument, because there are people par toshl president trump and some of his politics yet are willing to give the case a full hearing. on the other hand, some of the questions that she had about the complexity of the evidence show that she s probably going to split this, right. we could end up with a trial that s initially scheduled for sometime next summer, perhaps after primary season but before