Effective, and it is not safe. Thank you very much. That is all in on the thursday night. Alex wagner tonight starts right now. Good evening, alex. Thanks to athome for joining me this hour. This evening, weve got some fairly shocking news. President trump is asking the court to schedule one of his federal criminal trials before the november election, specifically, trump is requesting that maralago classify its documents case to begin on august 12th. That is correct. Donald trump asked for that trial to start just three months before the president ial election. Except, that request may not exactly be what it sounds like. It could very well be a game of 3d chess. It does not sound like something trump placed on that often, but play with me here. Trump pitching that august date could be a way of trying to block the other federal criminal case, the Special Counsels much more serious a federal Election Interference case from going to trial before the election. Yesterday we got that massive
This time than what we might have otherwise been expecting. If the allegations in this indictment are proven Beyond A Reasonable Doubt and a jury convicts some of these crimes, history will not ask, wow, how did america get to the point where they indicted a former president . History instead is going to ask, how did america get to the point where such a person could be elected to the presidency of the United States. Were actions such as these could be carried out from the oval office directed by a person who was elected president by the American People, along with his advisers. This is a grave day and a serious one for our country. Thank you for being with us here tonight. We know you had every choice in the world. But we are happy to have you here on what will go down in u. S. History as a black letter, bold faced date, August 1st 2023 is the date on which a former president and the leading president ial candidate of the Republican Party was indicted in Federal Court, accused of lead
The special coverage. He is of course innocent until Proven Guilty and he will and should mount a robust defense against these charges, and he should be acquitted if he didnt do what he is accused of. But if the allegations made by the Justice Department in this indictment are proven, if the former president did what he is accused of, history is going to ask a different question of this time than what we might have otherwise been expecting. If the allegations in this indictment are proven Beyond A Reasonable Doubt and a jury convict some of these crimes, history will not ask, wow, how did america get to the point where they indicted a former president . History instead is going to ask, how did america get to the point where such a person could be elected to the presidency of the United States. Where actions such as these could be carried out from the oval office directed by a person who was elected president by the American People, along with his advisers. This is a grave day and a ser
if you just think, i mean, we never had a president attempt a coup. it is so unprecedented. i think if we don t get to see it, like we got to see the january 6th, you know, those hearings, the fact that we could see it and see that these are not haters of donald trump, these are not his enemies, these are his friends, his own associates, his own people, i think it s so important that that happen and it not be filtered through fox or newsmax. the difference between january 6th hearings, as we saw them, and the trial, if it were televised, is we would get to see donald trump mount a defense. an adversarial process, he will hopefully have a good defense and that is part of the fairness of the process i. want to bring in our friend andrew westman. i feel like we are having a lot of loose talk over here about how definite is this goes to trial, how straightforward and or simple this is as a case. and that the american public would be able to follow the relatively straightforward allegatio
that happen and it not be filtered through fox or newsmax. the difference between january 6th hearings, as we saw them, and the trial, if it were televised, is we would get to see donald trump mount a defense. an adversarial process, he will hopefully have a good defense and that is part of the fairness of the process. i want to bring in our friend andrew westman. i feel like we are having a lot of loose talk over here about how definite is this goes to trial, how straightforward and or simple this is as a case and that the american public would be able to follow the relatively straightforward allegations herein. is that accurate? are those perceptions accurate to you or i? the first thing i did when i looked at this was thought about it as a former prosecutor, thought about the evidence. i was sort of where chris is, which is we all saw the crime in realtime. then when you read about this and you think about the january 6th committee and what got added in, there are a lot of