judges issued orders in both of special counsel jack smith s criminal cases against donald trump. the d.c. case involving trump s efforts to overturn the 2020 election, and the florida case centered on the former president s unlawful retention of classified documents. so a flurry of legal action today for mr. trump, and i m going to get some expert legal help breaking down all of that in just a second. but perhaps the biggest legal news of today was this. the federal judge in charge of the mar-a-lago classified documents case, judge aileen cannon of course appointed by president trump, today judge cannon signaled she may push back the date of trump s trial in that case. the trial was originally scheduled to start at the end of may next year. that would put it a few months after super tuesday and a few months before the republican national convention, right in the eye of the 2020 election storm, if you will. now, judge cannon did not set a new date today, but in court she says
and rand paul is a flake. i think republicans are enhancing sort of the legend of ted cruz. we play that clip of him talking about hey, here i am in the backroom meeting are republican senators. we re talking about gun strategy and they re a bunch of squishes because all they re saying is this is a bad vote politically. i listen to that and say in a way he s right because what the republican senators are arguing with him is basically hey, don t do this, ted. this will look bad politically. they re right, by the way, it will look bad politically, but their argument is not it s not a violation of principles. their argument is we re scared of political implications. it allows him to go in public and say i m the only one who s willing to stand on principle. they re a bunch of squishes. at the moment there is not other republican candidate that is positioned as well to be the candidate of the tea party. i think scott walker is maybe his biggest threat in that regard. but i think it s un