i think there is a new e. jean carroll trial that is going to take place in new york that is going to take place sometime next year as well. so, there is a lot of different litigation activities, and criminal ones, as i said before, trump has to be at. and so these do have to all get coordinated. and trump s plan is to try to delay them all all of them until after the november 24 election. that is just not going to hold water. i can t imagine that judges are going to go for that. it just seems like a transparent attempt to try and delay and possibly squash the prosecution with a republican income to get ministration that orders the prosecutions dropped. but neal, can i just ask, in terms of the pecking order here i was talking with laetitia james, the new york a.g., a couple of weeks ago, and she suggested that if the federal indictment on january 6th came down anytime soon, that she would adjourn her case and that alvin bragg and fani willis might adjourn those as well, i gu
he incited it. and he supported it. we know from reporting that the january 6th committee s presentation lit a fire under the justice department. it was impossible to ignore. attorney general merrick garland had been prosecuting cases against many of the rioters who stormed on the capitol that day. but there was disagreement within the justice department about how much its investigation should focus on trump himself. but after the january 6th committee presented its case last summer and last fall, it was clear that trump s behavior warranted a federal criminal investigation. and while the january 6th committee was finishing up its final report, merrick garland made an announcement. i have concluded that it is in the public interest to appoint a special counsel. i strongly believe that the normal processes of this department can handle all investigations with integrity.
and i also believe that in appointing a special counsel at this time, it is the right thing to do. the extraordinary circumstances presented here demand it. and that brings us to the work of that special counsel today. we know that since jack smith s appointment, a grand jury has heard testimony about everything from trump s efforts to get mike pence to overturn the election, to the scheme to send a slate of fake trump electors to washington, d. c., to trump s intent, and whether or not he really thought the election was stolen, to whether trump was defrauding his donors with fake claims of election fraud, just to haul in cash. and that grand jury has heard from just an extraordinary number of witnesses. they heard from trump aides, like mitt luna and john mcentee. they heard from trump s closest advisers, including stephen miller, and dan scavino. they heard from several of others trump s white house lawyers, like pat cipollone and pat philbin. and they heard from members of trump s
jack smith s team, on the other hand, once the trial to start this december. now, it s not exactly a secret that trump is likely to pardon himself if he wins the presidency again, and he s in office once the trial begins. so, the timing here is deeply consequential. but the hearing today ended without a decision from judge cannon, who said she would issue a written order, promptly . joining us now is our very own ari melber, the host of msnbc s the beat with ari melber and neal katyal host of the podcast courtside with neal katyal ari melber and neal katyal, new to better giants than to speak because of your love of adverbs what does promtly mean to you? not generally, but in this case.
judges, one in d. c., and judge aileen cannon in florida, as well as a potential indictment in georgia and a certain one that has already happened in manhattan. and there is also the possibility of another federal indictment in new jersey, at bedminster, for that conduct. so, all of this is going to have to be coordinated. and we have not even mentioned i think there is a new e. jean carroll trial that is going to take place in new york sometime next year as well. so, there is a lot of different litigation activities, and criminal ones, as i said before, trump has to be at. and so these do have to all get coordinated. and trump s plan is to try to delay them all all of them until after the november 24 election. that is just not going to hold water. i can t imagine that judges are going to go for that. it just seems like a transparent attempt to try and delay and possibly squash the prosecution with a republican