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merchandise, and after being banned from twitter following the january 6th attack, trump returned to the platform, now known as x, for the first time with the fundraising appeal. president biden, who tweeted on his own fundraising plea as trump was being arrested, was asked about the mug shot. i did see. what did you think? handsome guy. reporter: the former president and his 18 codefendants could face arraignment early next month. district attorney fani willis has proposed a new court date of october 23rd after defendant kenneth chesebro asked for a speedy trial. a judge granted their request for him, but trump s legal team said it is opposed. any d.a. would to try their case once and only one spirits be to get them to know my gwen keyes fleming is a former georgia county district attorney. they want to present their evidence once and only once and as you start bifurcating the trial then you are having witnesses come back multiple times. you are also getting a preview to t
described. so, gwen, being a lower standard to prove, what kinds of issues do you think would be successful on that lower standard? on that lower standard, one of the things that we re waiting to see is what evidence, what documents, what witnesses he may be able to present. obviously all of us who were sworn federal officers or appointees, we signed documentation and took an oath, i don t think there is a question he was in fact a federal employee. the question becomes whether the actions that are alleged in the indictment were part of or under color of his federal role. so that will take, i would imagine, some type of testimony, either from other witnesses, or possibly from mr. meadows himself. obviously as a defendant he has the right to remain silent. but he has also the opportunity to wave that right. and so we re waiting to see what
circles are a twitter. mimi rocah, to gwen s point, kenneth chesebro, who is one of the co-defendants in this, and in many ways one of the architects of the fake electors plot, has filed for a speedy trial, which is the opposite position, we think, the former president would like to take, which is push this thing as far away from me as possible 2035 is not far enough. what is the meaningful impact of having one defendant say, let me get this done in october and the other saying, 2025? well, as gwen alluded to, and i am sure she is more familiar with how, under georgia law in particular this might play out but it is going to depend on whether first of all, whether that is granted at all. and i understand that georgia is more generous in terms of once a defendant makes a motion for a speedy trial, you get it. but what that means as to whether, then, he is severed off from the other defendants, or whether that means that groups of defendants, or all of them, go together
lawyer at the doj, jeffrey clark they tried to get a federal court to stop d. a. fani willis from arresting them this week. but tonight, a judge denied those requests and, unless an appeals court weighs in, mark meadows and jeffrey clark are set to be arrested in fulton county. keep your eyes out for the mugshots. joining me now are mimi rocah, former u.s. attorney for the southern district of new york, now the district attorney for westchester county, and gwen keyes fleming, former district attorney for dekalb county. mimi and gwen, it s great to have you here. let me first get you thoughts on this late breaking news here, regarding the judge effectively giving meadows and clark the hand on their filing to delay this arrest. does that seem unusual to? and does that suggest anything about the broader case to have this moved into federal court? it doesn t seem unusual, and alex. in fact, it seems so normal that it seems almost like that s what is taking people by