but on top of that she seemed to criticize the special counsel. she demanded both sides have a document of pleading that would discuss the propriety of having such a special grand jury up in washington, d.c. well, look, you can have a grand jury in washington, d.c. because you could charge this case in washington, d.c. according to the federal law you could charge obstruction in d.c. in fact, you could even charge it in new jersey because you have some of the action in this case occur in bedminster. remember the improper dissemination of the documents. so i think that judge cannon is off base on this one, and i think that if they appealed it, they could get a favorable ruling by the 11th circuit, but i don t think jack smith is going to ask for her recusal or removal on this case. i think that s such a high burden, high standard i think they re just going have to grin and bear it and deal with it. they ve got this other case in washington, d.c. which is moving faster with a judge much
in the position of cross examining past or even current filings. so, dave, plenty to weigh through here. let s get your reaction, though, simply to what went on in judge cannon s court yesterday on both of these matters, and do we think this is an assist to donald trump in this case? yeah, jonathan, i thought we would see cannon 2.0 this year, and this resembled cannon 2022. here she rejected a pretty reasonable motion to keep matters sealed by the special prosecutor, and then she went above and beyond to turn a routine matter into a bizarre insinuation jack smith is somehow engaged in wrongdoing by something this additional grand jury in washington, d.c. well, first off she released that information to the public when really you re not supposed to, but i guess she s a federal judge so i guess she can.
beast points out this. while much of the mar-a-lago documents case is being handled out of judge cannon s district, a portion of the grand jury work ahead of trump s indictment was indeed done by a d.c. grand jury which judge cannon appears perplexed by. in a separate blow to the special counsel the judge also removed two filings by prosecutors about defense attorney stan woodward s potential cop flict of interest striking them from the record entirely. government lawyers pointed out that woodward who is serving as attorney for codefendant walt nauta has also represented at least seven other clients who prosecutors have interviewed about trump s alleged efforts to keep classified documents after he left the white house. a government filing also revealed that two of woodward s clients could be called as government witnesses in the trial. that means woodward could be put
trump we want to ask you about and what s being seen as a potential move in favor of trump, the judge overseeing the classified documents case in florida struck two of the filings in court yesterday. judge aileen cannon rejected special counsel jack smith s bid to preserve grand jury secrecy through sealed filings. in a ruling judge cannon asked federal prosecutors to explain the use of grand juries in florida and washington, d.c. in the classified documents case even though the charges were ultimately filed in south florida. she ordered prosecutors to respond by august 22nd writing this, the response shall address the legal propriety of using an out of district grand jury proceeding to continue to investigate and/or to seek post-indictment hearings on matters pertinent to the indicted matter in this district. a lot to get to there, but daily
careful in what it is putting in public filings because, again, those are those are matters that are generally not made public, those are the existence of a grand jury proceeding and the matters before them typically are shrouded in secrecy. okay. it is something we ll certainly be watching. thank you, all. when we re back in 60 seconds, a new fight over abortion rights on the ballot today in ohio. but will it backfire on republicans in november? plus, are we in for fireworks? the 2024 candidate and potential trump trial witness who just made the gop debate stage. also, shark scare. a woman is in critical condition after being attacked in the waters off new york city. and later, we re in the middle of a hot, humid, sticky summer. so, why are we already talking about pumpkin spice? already tag about pumpkin spice?