social media expressions because he seems to be engaged, and we ve talked about this for, this, before in this long, slow process of confessing, in public, and much of the case against them comes out of his own mouth. ken delaney, give us a timeframe what is your best guess from reporting and also people you talked to yesterday, the courthouse and throughout the day. about the timeframe for this trial. when do we expect this trial to begin? it was very clear from that arraignment, that this judge, wants to get this case to trial, as does prosecutor jack smith, and the trump side strategy is going to be delay, delay, delay. so the magistrate judge presented, for example, three dates for the next in the, case august 21st, august 22nd, and august 28th. jack smith teams said we want this sooner state available plays, your honor. of course donald trump s lawyer
she knows, that when you lay out facts that are this compelling, i caulking indictment, because it fills in the public on what exactly went on. it is really jaw-dropping, and in fact, as you point out, some of these documents are so sensitive, that the names of the documents have been redacted. so your right, the nature of the documents that he took is incredibly damning. incredibly serious, and he keeps frankly, confessing, on national television, or on truth social, he keeps saying, yes i took these documents, they were mine, in fact he wants them back. so there s no doubt that he knew they were there, there is no doubt that he will fully retained those documents. and he is going to come up with all sorts of shenanigans, all sorts of claims, first he said he declassified them, then he said he didn t. then he said, you know perhaps they were planted. he really can t decide on any
side of the house, relative benefits and also some downside to both of them. as chuck points out, the most important thing you have to do before you can map out a strategy is get some sort of client control here. you ve got to staunch the bleeding that trump is doing by contradicting himself, by confessing. at this point the government will be able to put together much of its case on audio tape and video tape and play for the jury the evidence that they need to establish, many of these crimes coming to the jury out of trump s own mouth. that s the first thing the team will have to deal with. then they ll be largely, as we ve seen by trump, informed by his preferences in this regard. it s a real problem they face with the lawyers. you need someone who admitted to the court in the southern district of florida to appear in that court. chris kise is a florida lawyer.
of pushing you a little bit. they re kind of push you. they walked over to and push a bit on the shoulder. and in my face. they just touch? filling the against me. yeah, like this? and when they got close to like this whether they think? garrett something like that. you need to tell us something garrett, because they re going to fry you and the electric chair. excuse me. thank you mister is that objection? that is an objection. well then the question is that what they said to you? something like that. i m going out for murder. you are going down for murder. i m going to get the death penalty. you are going to get the death penalty. what finally made you give them some information. saying that julia was the person in the room. they told me i was gonna go to jail for murder already. so ended up confessing. there was no doubt that