team came up with that date. the median time it took four other cases during the pandemic when the courts were backlogged to say, well, 30 months between the start of the trial, to sentencing. that is not the start of trial. that is through the trial and, to get a verdict, that should be the operating timeline that they should be considering. and i think the doj will come back and say, you know, that is a patently long and lucas timeline. i think the judge is going to agree. you know glenn, we ve seen this judge. she has been handling a lot of the 16 relayed cases. she has been a very i would say very strong person in terms of sentencing for some of the defendants that have gone to jerry charlo s. we know that she is a straight shooter, she is all business. glenn, you and i have tried cases in federal court asking for a trial date as far out as april 26 is not only laughable, but ludicrous. and what do you expect to see on monday with judge chutkan? katie, it was not a
documents. the department of justice hasn t produced any information. now through what the defense has given to the media, actually we re getting a good look in to what was going on between these plea negotiations. the fact that this has never been told before, but apparently clark, chris clark, hunter biden s attorney, went over weiss head to appeal weiss and he got a meeting at the deputy attorney general s office on april 26 of this year. just one week after my letter to select committees on congress revealed that there was a whistle-blower ready to come forward. all of these facts show weiss is not the person that should be able to give the american public the confidence that this matter is getting looked into tho thoroughly and properly. martha: you know, you point out that he went over his head, which just tells me looking at
defendants that you do in fulton county so when the judge has donald trump s lawyer in the special counsel before her on monday and sets that trial date, that s something that you might not see a lot of movement in or potentially have a lot of legal room for in the future and it s going to be on that track potentially when the special counsel would like it to be is early january 2024 but donald trump s team really went forward and said, hey, not until april 26. we ll see you next week on monday. monday, good reminder. they also argue that they can t just rely on control find. they ve got to go through all the evidence in order to build a defense. i think just looking at the face of it, wouldn t you want your lawyer going through everything to build a defense? do they have an argument about the amount of evidence that is there to potentially push this back, maybe not till april 26th but a little bit later next
basically it s no business. it s essentially no business of the executive what happens when states count their votes. i mean, the constitution provides that federal elections are in the hands of congress and in the hands of the states. and the chief of staff and president has no authority to supervise the counting of votes in fulton county or anywhere else. the fact that mark meadows went down there on his behalf wasn t an exercise of presidential authority. and he wasn t really exercising he was acting as a campaign staffer, and that should not be that should not entitle him to move the case to federal court. john, the april 26 trial date that the former president s attorneys have given to the judge in the january 6th case, i mean, almost three years from now. when do you realistically think that would go to trial? shaes not going to give them what they want. i think it s more likely to be somewhere between ten months and 14 months, which is ample time
good evening once again, i m stephanie ruhle. donald trump is now seeking to delay his federal election interference trial until april of 2026. no, not next april 26, april 2026. that is almost three years from now. 17 months after the 2024 election. it is when his legal team proposed this evening in a court filing to the judge handling the case. they say, quote, must have adequate time to defend himself, citing the governments 11 and a half million pages of evidence, they said if the pages were stacked on top of one another, the result would be a tower taller than the statue of liberty and the washington monument. remember, jack smith has asked for jury selection to start in december, with a trial beginning on january 2nd of 2024. meanwhile the former president has been speaking out against