i d rather be having the election interference case being judged in d. c. than in florida, i have to say. but judge cannon clearly doesn t care about her up let s talk about judge chutkan, tanya chutkan go on. i have to say, there s absolutely nothing wrong. she raised this one funny issue, which as if it was some terrible thing that there was grand jury proceedings going on in washington, d. c. and in florida. there s absolutely nothing wrong with that. that s normal in a case that began in washington, d. c. with the stealing of the documents, and then it moved to florida, where many of the witnesses are in d.c.. walt nauta is in d. c. all the time. he may very well have spoken to people. there may be other people involved.
overturning those rulings of hers. and they punished her for basically doing trump s bidding for him. and yet, here she is doing it again. in a new ruling this morning, judge cannon appears to be doing homework for donald trump s coconspirator, walt nauta. cynthia alksne is a former federal prosecutor and she joins me now. cynthia, thanks for coming on the show. today, judge cannon issued a ruling questioning the special counsel news. washington, d.c. grand jury investigating the documents case. what do you make of her ruling? and could you explain what she s basically telling trump s coconspirator walt nauta to do? well, basically, what she is doing is kicking the can down the road. i mean, remember that jack smith s people had to push her to set a trial date. and now, she has to have an excuse on why that trial date has to be, because of the trump people want to have the case continued. and so, she has to have a bunch of excuses and little things that she can continue to push to ki
running for office. and so, local council, you have to have someone if it s on top of the scheduling, on top of the arguments, and the briefing takes place whenever there is a court appearance, including down to logistics, and moving donald trump from one courtroom to the other. this is a lot of work. $40 million in legal fees so far, he s gonna double that or triple that, as we move closer. and all for what? because he wants to be president, because he is leading in the polls, and because he s raising a lot of money. but running for president, and being under 75 to 80 felony counts that he s been indicted on, completely inconsistent and impossible to do. that if is going to come, it s going to come to its head really sooner than later. we have this new ruling over in florida from trump s mar-a-lago judge, aileen cannon, asking about the, quote, legal propriety of using out of district grand jury and seeming to decide what trump codefendant walt nauta. briefly unpack that for us. wha
and they punished her for basically doing trump s bidding for him. and yet, here she is doing it again. in a new ruling this morning, judge cannon appears to be doing homework for donald trump s coconspirator, walt nauta. cynthia alksne is a former federal prosecutor and she joins me now. cynthia, thanks for coming on the show. today, judge cannon issued a ruling questioning the special counsel news. washington, d. c. grand jury investigating the documents case. what do you make of her ruling? and could you explain what she s basically telling trump s coconspirator walt nauta to do? well, basically, what she is doing is kicking the can down the road. i mean, remember that jack smith s people had to push her to set a trial date. and now, she has to have an excuse on why that trial date has to be, because of the trump people want to have the case continued.
day, another former president has found himself accused of the very same charge again. on thursday, donald trump was hit with new counts in special counsel jack smith s classified documents case. in a bombshell superseding indictment, the ex president was charged with an additional count of willful retention of national defense information, and two new counts of obstruction. so with these new charges, trump now faces a staggering total of 40 criminal counts in that case, the most serious of which could land him in prison for up to 20 years. now, in that superseding indictment, prosecutors have accused trump, along with his coconspirator walt nauta, and a new third defendant carlos de oliveira, a mar-a-lago maintenance worker attempting to delete surveillance video from the resort. coincidently, just after trump s lawyers received the grand jury subpoena requests for that footage. according to the indictment, on