attorney for fulton county fani willis, she could still prosecute the case and do you think that she would change her strategy at all? that is absolutely right. although, the venue for the trial and the case would move from state court to federal court, which of course perhaps for the trump team brings in the advantage of opening up the perspective pool of jurors that potentially could hear the case. i think that the district attorney s office and fani willis will continue the same strategy. based on what we ve seen from the indictment and some of the testimony even today, from the secretary of state who i understand is perhaps still on the stand or wrapping up, i think she s got a good strategy. with respect to the case, i say stay tuned. it is going to be riveting to see how this all plays out. clint rocker and tom dupree. thank you. and governor chris christie will be with us. stay with us.
while you re also a former federal prosecutor, a former u.s. attorney. is that too soon? too far away? what do you think? i think it is a realistic date, jake, given that it is a one-defendant case. i remember talking to you at the time of the indictment and there is question about why did jack smith just indict donald trump and have six unin indicted co-conspirators and i think today is the reason why he did that. he decided to get this case moved to trial, he had to restrict it to one defendant. he indicted the person he felt was most culpable. and today i think what the judge did was two fold. one, she gave them another six months to get ready for trial. in a single defendant case. and, two, she made it quite clear to the trump legal team that the public relations games that they and their client play are not going to impact the decisions that she makes in the courtroom. and, so, i think for republican
perform his job. serving the president of the united states is what i do, to be clear, unquote. what do you make of that argument? is it strong. think mark meadows has a nonfrivolous argument but i don t think he s going to be successful. i mean, his point about that he was following the president s instructions, makes him acting in the course of his official duties, that only goes so far. it is not the case that anything that the president asks him to do is therefore within his official duties. if the president hypothetically asked him to commit a criminal act, that would not be within the course of his official duties. i also think the prosecutor has a decent argument that even if meadows was trying to act for a political purpose, that would violate the hatch act which is the law that prohibits federal officials are engaging from that kind of activity. i don t think he ll win on this one. if the judge does move the case to federal court from georgia court, am i correct in assumin
authorities have said there was a quote, armed and dangerous person on or near the campus. police have not said if there were any shots fired on campus or what initiated this lockdown. we ll bring you that information when and if we get it. turning to our law and justice lead, donald trump said he plans to file an appeal after a federal judge earlier today set his trial date in the federal case brought by special counsel jack smith where trump is accused staging a conspiracy to overturn the 2020 election nationwide, joining us now to discuss is clint rocker, a former prosecutor in fulton county district attorney s office and tom dupree on george w. bush. the judge has decided march 4th of next year. what do you make of that decision? well it doesn t surprise me that the trump lawyers of a 2026 trial date was aspirational to say the least. and i don t think it was realistic.