processed. now we wait for this court proceeding to get underway at the time of our note from our producer, jay gibson inside, the magistrate judge had not entered the courtroom. he will go before a judge today. the judge that will preside over the trial, 2014 obama appointee is different. she comes later. meanwhile, before the former president entered the courthouse, his trump trump s legal spokesperson, alina habba did a short gaggle with the press, neil. she said among other things, the former president is under siege like never before. this is election interference against its finest against the leading candidate. she took time to point to as we have documented the pattern of news that relateds to say hunter biden and then the next day, there s something pertaining to
griff? well, neil, we re waiting here with the crowds and the media for the former president to leave now that we know he s pled not guilty. you re reading the terms of his release. it s fascinating. the very last thing that the magistrate judge said to him was you may also face a longer sentence for having committed a crime. that stands out to me. as this not this magistrate judge but the actual judge who is going to preside over his trial is known for giving harsh sentence to upwards of almost 40 cases involving january 6th riot defendants prior to this trial. so an interesting note just add a little bit of color here. you were talking about the amount of media attention that donald trump is carrying to his rivals. let s spin the camera up. you can see as far as the eye,
but can she force that issue to say i know what you want, but here s what i m going to do, end of story. i think she s a very hard time doing that here, neil. this is because of the tactical move that smith may end up regretting. that is if you really want to get this case to trial quickly, you indict this one first. instead, what he did, he indicted the florida case first. that gives former president trump the ability to come in to the judge s court and say, you know, he tactically undermined my due process right to prepare a defense in this trial by choosing not only to indict me in another district but to persuade the judge in that district to get the case to trial in may. so it s very hard for him at this point to then say and we need to get this case to trial very quickly. now, she may be very open to
your thoughts. sorry, neil, about my tech foul-up. you have the school of law here, the cavuto school, andy covering the trial. i m happy to take the appeals, this is where the trial judge has complete discretion in this case. the trial judge can say i want it to go to verdict. after we see whether he s convicted or not, we ll let the issues like the one you just raised, is trump legally chargeable for obstruction of congress. it goes to the dc circuit, which is a very unfavorable circuit for trump. the supreme court has been very reluctant to approve the use of fraud for creating readings of criminal laws to interferes to what they think is the mess of politics. you can easily see the supreme court reversing the use of the
charlie palmer s steakhouse. it s pricey. you can see a lot of lawmakers in there lunch time. it s past that now. a lot of places to stop. i doubt he will say anything until he gets back to new jersey if i had to bet. i listened to the conversation here. it s interesting. one of the things i m compelled to say is that no matter what happens in this courtroom, when the trial gets underway, under this judge, you just heard talk directly to the former president about his rights and the charges. there is an appellate process that john turley talked about. whether that is fast tracked and whether it goes through that or the supreme court, you know, this president is directly responsible for choosing this court and the supreme court has been put together now. it s more favorable on these issues one would think on