they should, but given where they are, we don t know what the tally was from the grand jury. that s an important thing to keep in mind. we don t know if there are people who still, in seeing all this evidence and having it presented, still voted no. when we come into, trial you need in an unanimous verdict. let s talk about that, joyce, because when andrew mccarthy says trump is toast, it brings as to the question of, what is toast? there is a judge in this case, alien cannon, who was a trump appointee. a trump appointee, a trump devotee. acolyte. tell me about this, joyce. what influence to the judge have, despite this remarkable indictment and all the evidence that the justice department seems to have? every judge has to be appointed by a president from one party or another, and typically we said that aside. but judge cannon, who was appointed to the bench, was confirmed to the bench after donald trump actually lost the
and dependable. our goal is a cleaner, healthier planet for generations to come. for a better tomorrow, we re focused on making plastics better today. today we learn who will preside over the federal criminal case against former president donald trump, at least for now. it is judge alien cannon, and if that name sounds familiar to you it s because this is not the first time she has been involved in this. case it was judge cannon who earlier in a documents investigation, appointed a special master to review the thousands of documents seized from mar-a-lago, stalling the governments investigation. higher court later overruled her. and it will be judge cannon who oversees trump s arraignment next tuesday afternoon, and
and they will file motions to try to exclude it, and on those motions will go to judge cannon. and so she takes out all of the notes that he transcribed in this narrative for him, and he was clearly disturbed by some of his interactions with his current client. let s make it clear, he is still a client. he may not be a client on this matter, but he is at least, as far as we last checked, still representing him as it relates to january 6th. and andrew weissmann, you pointed out. will he be a lawyer for donald trump longer than are ripe peach can sit on a grocery store shelf? to borrow a metaphor. you know, it seems like there could be an appeals process involving judge aileen cannon. yes, but to that point, she makes a crazy ruling that keeps something out, they have to appeal. it delay? delay. she makes another crazy ruling, they have to appeal it. and at that point, if it goes past the election in many ways,
expected him to be, i think he can do the math for himself and figure out that there was a possibility and she would be their judge. that strongly suggests that their decision to come to florida was compelled by the doctrine of venue the requires prosecutors to indict not where they like the politics of potential jurors, but where the crime was committed. so here we, are in judge cannon will have an enormous amount of control over these proceedings if she stays on this case, as the judge who actually hears it. she will be in the spotlight, and sometimes sunlight is the best disinfectant. but i think it s safe to say that jack smith will be preparing if not to call for her formal recusal, to suggest that given the legal standards in the 11th circuit, she should step aside because it will be tough for the public to have confidence in the way she handles this case after the way she handled the earlier matter, and given, not just, you can t recuse that judge because they were appointed by
election, as a little bit of a track record here. stemming from donald trump s efforts to block the government from using records following the search at mar-a-lago. she took steps that the 11th circuit criticized very harshly, saying that she didn t have jurisdiction to take up the matter at all in that she decided that wrongly, it was very resounding criticism. so now the judge, who was assigned to the case, judicial assignment is random, but there was a limited pool of judges in this division. she was one of four in what is known as the wheel. the way that judges are selected today is through a computer program run by the clerk s office lawyers call the wheel because in the good old days here literally was a wheel with all the judges names on it that was spun to determine who would have the case. and so that lingers on. she comes up, and look, jack smith, who has been immaculately prepared prepared every step of these proceedings, always ahead of where we