the trial and say i m going to send these issues up to the d.c. circuit. that could end the case right away. most trial judges and andy is right, are more likely to say let s have the whole trial first. if donald trump is acquitted, we don t have to have any appeals. let s see what happens. then we can pick up these really important legal issues at the end. neil: tom, is there a sense in the couple minutes here, that prosecutors will try to coordinate amongst themselves, whether it s governor georgia next or the ones we have and arranging trials and follow up events and where the president s civil cases go or do you have to go blindly with that? i suspect that the prosecutors will coordinate, neil. right now we re in a situation that is bordering on literally impossible. expecting the former president to defend himself in three, maybe four criminal proceedings. at the same time, he s running for president of the united
fourth indictment. and the real jury is likely the one that will be voting for 2024. i think we re already seeing how this is impacting them. i have to tell you, in this case, i should think that trump would welcome aspects of this case. precisely because of that issue and also because he has these threshold legal questions that he should be able to get to the appellate courts fairly quickly. so smith has to be careful what he s asking for. the trump team might give it to him. it s unlikely he will get a trial in front of the florida trial but they could help him out in moving these issues to the appellate court and asking them, is this the criminalization of this information? are you about to criminalize false political speech? in the past, the court has been extremely skeptical of laws that attempt to do that.