grind with fox than the two of them. and clearly donald trump looked at his dance card next week and thought i can play golf, i can join the rnc debate, i can join tucker carlson or surrender to fulton county authorities. there s still time and room on that stage for other candidates to join. one of the people who s desperately trying to get on the stage is former arkansas governor asa hutchinson. he s not yet qualified. this is what he had to say. we re getting close. we have until monday evening to qualify for the 45,000 individual voters, and it s up to all the viewers. asa hutchinson not yet at that 40,000 number. if he and other candidates don t hit that number, they don t qualify for the debate, do you think they are still viable in this republican race? i don t think they are, alex. i mean right now i think it s
simply communicate on things like timing, on the potential for trial dates, because when you have, you know, four criminal trials on your dance card, there has to be some coordination, some communication, and some prioritizing of, you know, who should go first who should go second, who should go third. i actually hope that that s an indication that d.a. willis is at least communicating with her fellow prosecutors. ryan reilly and glen kirschner, thank you for being with us this morning. overnight, the prosecutor at the heart of this case became one of the most well known lawyers in the country. fulton county d.a. fani willis took office in 2021, just days before the first reporting from the washington post about trump s january call to georgia secretary of state brad raffensperger, pressing him to find votes. we do know willis has served 19 years as a prosecutor. and her office says their conviction rate hovers around
president and if he were convicted then what happens because he can t pardon himself? there are still a lot of questions we still have around the sequencing of this so i don t know. maybe joyce could weigh in on that because that seems to me critical as well, how this all plays out. right, so the sequencing will be interesting to watch. trump last a full dance card to state the obvious. i would look for judges and prosecutors to coordinate. willis has a lot of complexity in this. lots of moving parts. people who may challenge being tried together. i think we ll see a relatively quick effort to remove this case to federal court. we saw that earlier in manhattan. trump s lawyers will argue that he at least should be tried in federal court where he has unique federal defenses to assert because of the role he played as president. this one won t go to trial on the six-month schedule that willis said last night she
ambitious, if not a little bit looney. you also have one defendant, donald trump, who has a rather full dance card. he is being indicted around the country or has been indicted. he is also being sued civilly. so people have got get in the line. it s not clear that how she thinks she can go to the front of that line. you have got a special counsel who is also asking for a rapid trial. bret: what s the take, philip, on the ground about the strength of this case? obviously it s ricco, which means that, you know, they have a panama plea of choices for potential crimes that the jury could pick from and they only have to come up with two to make the ricco charge outside the state of georgia. conspiratorial acts done in furtherance of the conspiracy.
footage that of mar-a-lago. a wall that classified documents case continues to move forward, so too does jack smith other case, the one in washington d.c.. today s special counsel prosecutors revealed went and exactly they hope the court will schedule that court. jack smith s team told the court they want to begin the 2020 election case against trump on january 2nd. prosecutors argued in the filing that starting the trial on a second day of the new year before any the nominating contests would vindicate the public s strong interest in a speedy trial. now we do not know whether the court will agree to that date and trump s legal team will almost certainly pushback, but if the government heeds accords governments wishes here than while, donald trump is a very busy dance card in the month of january. take a look at this. potential criminal trial ungenerous ekin and then 40s