i was treated very nicely, but it is what it is. i took a mug shot, which i never heard the words mug shot that wasn t didn t teach me that at the wharton school of finance. i went through an experience today that i never thought i d have to go through. let s take him at his word there. we do fact checks. we do context. but as donald trump has so often proven to be, the washington post said he s lied more than any other public government figure, and they track that. and yet right there you heard a kind of a blurted truth. watergate prosecutor nick akerman standing by. i m going to ask him about that and how it relates to other people booked because it was almost like this person who was caught lying so much actually had to cough up his feeling about how it went. it s not fun. you can sell the merch. you can have some other staffer write an email where you claim to be just, you know, bring on the indictments. but then you heard it in his own voice. we can also tell you trump said
interview. defendant trump went down to georgia yesterday because he had to. in fact, rachel maddow and our team was discussing this just last night during the special coverage, that for all the bluster and the attacks on the prosecutors, what that physically represents, what the mug shot shows is their power on behalf of the government and the people, which this defendant surrendered to. that s happened at the state level yesterday and the federal level before that. that s a good thing because this is a nation of laws. it s not a good thing if you just want to be trolling or negative about someone you have a disagreement with. indeed, it s a free country. you can feel whatever you want. but as a system of justice, we do not want the criminal justice system to be some sort of effort at score settling or humiliation. quite the opposite. but right now, what he has subjected himself to shows who s in charge. it s not the defendants.
thing again. that s why i say, again, this is a great part of the process. but if the end result isn t that donald trump and his cronies and his co-conspirators, if they are not removed from government, if they are not barred from ever holding office again, this is just going to be a blip in history. and in 35 years, we won t even see that mug shot in textbooks because we probably won t have a democracy to learn about it anymore. that s how dangerous and serious this is. i think this is one step in the process. nick? i think the most important thing right now is making sure that these cases get to trial immediately, both in georgia and both in the district of columbia. we ve got a hearing set up for monday before judge chutkan. she s going to set a trial date. i m hoping that it s going to be january/february. we also have an issue with the trial date in georgia. we have mr. chesebro asking for a speedy trial. normally with a multi-defendant case like that, that gets tagged
governments.th the government of new york, theo government of georgia and the government of the united states. beforernor we do do you see thet kisses passed between president xi and putin, the serious business, that is not a joke, serious business as pointed outo inup foreign policy china s j presidency xini jinping to visit moscow the first trip abroad aso no election to those surprise of those who been watching carefully. when one steps back and analyzes the relationship between china and russia the facts cannot be denied. along every dimension personal economic, military and diplomatic the undeclaredis alliance that president xi has built with vladimir putin has become much more consequential than most of the united states alliance today. the greatest threat is china, not russia, was not iranch it is nit s china. is like saying it s world war ii but the precipice but the
yeah. that s what you were referring to at the beginning of the interview, that you feel that georgia has ways of ensuring that it is in the european camp as a kind of antidote to possible russian aggression. but you re not doing great on that score. as you said, the european union gave georgia 12 conditions. one of them, for instance, is over the appointment of supreme courtjudges to the supreme court. it s felt that there s too much political interference. around 20 were appointed in one go in a process that the european union said lacked credibility and integrity. do you think the government of georgia, the ruling georgian dream party, which has a very, you know, clear majority in the parliament, is serious about wanting tojoin the european union? i think they re working on it. i think that we are not perfect. i think many countries today are not perfect in these democratic achievements.