our calendars. yes ought to use a pencil, not a pen. it s monday, august 14th, it s a little less than two months from right now, and that is the day that judge aileen cannon has set for the trial of donald j. trump in the case having to do with classified documents, the legally and dangerously illegally and dangerously kept by him at a mar-a-lago. relatively speaking, that s soon, perhaps surprising given judge cannon s history of rulings considering to be favor to believe the disgraced ex-president who apointed her. but things get murky. the date august 14th is subject to delay, maybe delay after delay. in addition to what one would normally expect, illegal tactics, on one side to drag things out, there is another complicating factor, and that is complexities having to do with the classified material itself and something called the classified information procedures act. as we said, we re using pencils at this point, not pens. our experts will explain all of it in greater
other half is basically trying to protect it. policies of contrast, ideologies will get decided, but we re talking about protecting the basic tenets of democracy or throwing them in the sea. claire, i think this goes back to the general election and the calendar we laid out. this will not be a normal election, and there s something reflexively lazy about conventional political coverage, the idea of calcified basis. trump s base doesn t care about anything. i don t know that that s not true but i definitely know it isn t true. guys standing trials vie lating the espionage act is a shoo-in. i don t know that joe biden s age is determinative from someone else who violated the espionage act. guilty to his former neighbors and allies that we re talking about when and where to pardon him. what do you make of how this legal, constitutional crescendo