At up to 70 are shop guilt. Com today its wednesday, may 8, right now on cnn this mornings Stormy Daniels on the stand with lurid details about her alleged alleged sexual encounter with donald trump, the fallout ahead, plus the Biden Administration pausing a shipment of bombs to israel last week and a State Of Emergency in parts of michigan, tornado is flattening homes, collapsing buildings. And weve been people trapped all right 5 00 a. M. Here in washington continue to live. Look at the Statue Of Liberty in New York City where all that, when telling yesterday, good morning, everyone. Im kasie hunt. Its wonderful to have you with us and a day off from this trial. Today is a day off, maybe just what Everyone Needs after a drop, dropping day yesterday of testimony in the donald trump Criminal Hush, money trial. Stormy daniels took the stand and she had salacious details about her alleged encounter with trump in 2006 the former president was cursing and shaking his head during the testim
the stand trying to get his fulton county, georgia, trial moved to federal court. first judge chutkan setting a trial date of march 4th of next year, rejecting jack smith s january 2nd date. look at that calendar. yes, that is super tuesday you see there on the fifth and 12 primaries. that s another trial in new york on the 25th. there s also the fulton county case possibly this october. the second e. jean carroll defamation trial on the day of the iowa caucuses. and the classified documents trial proposed for may. today on the lead, jake tapper asked republican hopeful and former u.s. attorney chris christie about the date judge chutkan set. is that too soon, too far away? what do you think? i think it s a realistic date, jake, given that it s a one-defendant case. today, i think what the judge did was two-fold.
what do you make of how judge chutkan is handling that, the message she is sending about how they will be viewed? i think she s doing a fine job so far. i think, as carrie intimated, we have a lot of ground to cover here. there s certainly going to be a lot of opportunities for the former president to flare out in the way he prefers to on social media. he s never et met a line he didn t cross or a norm he didn t break. i wonder how affected, if the judge finds herself in a position of having to, you know, set limits or, you know, chide him for his activities in the social media space, i really feel like that will have just a provoking effect on him. so, it s hard to see how those two forces working in opposite directions end up in a good place at the end of the day. but i have to tell you that i think all signs so far are that this judge is very much in control of her courtroom. she s going to run this calendar
one she rec one, she gave them six months to get ready for a single defendant case. and two, she made it quite clear to the trump team that the public relations games that they and their client play are not going to impact the decisions she makes in the courtroom. judge chutkan also signalled in so many words that the public interest in a speedy trial is what s driving her scheduling decision, not primary politics. and as for mark meadows today, he took the stand in what played out like a minitrial in his testimony on why he believes his case belongs in federal court, could have significant impact on his codefendants, including his former boss. meadows said he believed the actions detailed in the fulton county indictment for part of his official duties and were done at donald trump s behest. this included, he said, setting up the former president s call in which he asked state officials to find him 11,780 votes. whatever impact meadows testimony has today on his
look at it. but she also clearly is aware and cognizant and values the public interest in this particular case. so, even if that march date slips a little bit, which is completely possible. i mean, federal court dates are set. sometimes they can go at that time. but there could be various things that come up between now and then that have it slip a little bit. but it does seem likely that the trial would begin either in the end of march or april or certainly this spring before the election, before the nominating convention. so, jessica, the defense team, trump s lawyers said that the government is trying to put on a show trial. first of all, can they appeal this trial date? do they have any recourse to? that language, show trial language, is the type of thing judge chutkan warned them on. this is not an appealable decision. the trial date is something that is very much entrusted to the decision of the trial judge,