i have to ask, can american democracy really survive a presidential election campaign in which one of the major party candidates is in the midst of so many criminal trials? what does it say about our two major parties that regardless of all of this, they are still on course to nominate for president a man that in the words of chris christie, is a one man crime wave. let s discuss all of this with david anderson, a civil rights attorney and former prosecutor. he is also a cnbc contributor. glenn kershner, former federal prosecutor and msnbc legal analyst. and jill wine-banks, a former assistant to watergate special prosecutor. legal analyst of the co-host of #sistersinlaw podcast. thank you all for coming back on the show. jill, i will start with you. how big of a deal is this superseding indictment that we have on thursday? it is a very big deal because the obstruction that is laid out there is so awful, and it s so ridiculous, and it s so well documented, that it really puts a diffe
what we can expect from jack smith and his team. andrew weissmann, i agree with glenn s characterization of it is exciting. we may be losing credibility with the audience here if we say that legal filing like this is exciting to read, but it was for me because of what glenn is talking about. you could feel the pace of it in the first two sentences. it takes off like a rocket and just speeds right through. one of the things that that means is it does not take any detour into or notice of the political rhetoric used by the trump lawyers in their filing that provoked this filing, particularly the sentence in their filing where the trump lawyers say, president biden is prosecuting donald trump. they say that very specifically in their filing, and jack smith decided to simply ignore all of that political posturing and
can choose. the defense very often would never go to trial, of course. and it s the public s right, by statute, to see that people charged with a criminal case are tried speedily. obviously consistent with the due process rights of the defendant to prepare a case. but again, this is going to be a real test of judge cannon, to see how she handles this matter. glenn, what did you see, if anything, in terms of indications of the evidence in the case? anything indicating where we might be going in terms of evidence that we didn t know about before this filing? there s the reference to the two devices of walt nauta s that they re in possession of, they haven t turned over information about that. a couple of references like that of certain pieces of evidence. i don t think we learned anything new factually that we didn t know before this
11th, 2023. we ve got our discussion tonight, andrew weissmann, former fbi general counsel and former chief of the criminal division of the eastern district of new york, a professor in practice and nyu law school. also with us glenn kershner, former federal prosecutor, host of the justice matters podcast. they are both msnbc legal analysts. andrew weissmann, your reading of jack smith s response on scheduling? well, we anticipated that he was going to file a response because so far he has really run this crack team of making sure that his position is known to the court and the court has the benefit of his thinking. i thought it was a very strong, brief. the borderline frivolous line is in reference to something that is important. the former president keeps
decades in florida she has helped to send three republicans to the white house and to the governor s mansion including the current governor, ron desantis. according to longtime trump adviser roger stone, who is known her for more than 30 years, quote, she knows where the bodies are buried. and now, special counsel investigators are using her to find them. joining me now, glenn kershner, former prosecutor, msnbc legal analyst, and host of the podcast justice matters. glenn, thank you as always for coming to the show. if the reports are accurate about susie wildes meeting with jack smith s how damaging could his team speak? talk about a danger zone for donald trump, jonathan, you, know she is a longtime loyalist, and senior adviser to donald trump. she ran his florida campaign in 2016. she s a senior adviser on his presidential campaign for 2024. she is had this ongoing