as evan said, ryan, is there anything in this filing where you see this may be the time that it works? i can t imagine it. so it does come in a week in which i think one of the best briefs written by the trump team is in the classified documents trying to delay the trial. this is one of the worst briefs. there s not a legal argument. this doesn t sound in law. they re saying something like the trial judge hasn t ruled in 100 days, you need to step in. that doesn t happen. that doesn t exist. or you can t indict a ham sandwich, it would be no indictment, it s not even ripe. and then they try to impugn the entire special grand jury system in georgia. the court s not going to hear that. in so many different ways, i don t think it s a legal argument, it s maybe for political messaging or something like that? in terms of political messaging, this argument that this can t happen right now because he s running for office, it s unconstitutional, they say. is that based in any sort of legal
state officials have said, including how that misinformation manifested itself in specific threats of violence against us. it s not new. i have closely observed the entire investigation. it does mean something else is opening up in terms of the criminal investigation into threats of violence against these individuals. throughout all of this, one of the things we ve talked about, ro ryan and i have talked about, intent is going to be crucial here. when it comes to the special counsel, when it comes to the focus by the special counsel on these election officials in key states how does intent figure in here? i think intent overrides all of these potential criminal charges because when we re talking about a criminal prosecution, you re talking about proof beyond a reasonable doubt, so you have to get into the line between trump complaining about something, and whether it was actually criminal what he was asking to be done. so i think that that is really where all of these cases turn, and