eight wolf, a big our ahead is the former president is about to land in atlanta. let s go back here. we will start with you. you walk through the process for us. what your because question of how this plays out? not just in the hour ahead, but what does today been for this case going forward? really when the trial will occur is a big question. will it happen now that he has said, he was a speedy trial. i don t think that willis is going to want to separate these cases and she s going to insist that many of them go, if not most. if that happens, that will happen very quickly and what s interesting about georgia is the trial will be televised unlike in federal court, which i think is significant for people to see themselves and with the evidence is and what the witnesses say and make their own decision and not just donald trump s spin about what happens in court, so i think
there is a crime. if the documents led to the conclusion that there was nothing to see there, there would be no need to take this step. but this is the next step now of bringing in witnesses to stef, as you heard dan talk about earlier in new york under unlike in federal court, hearsay is not permitted before the grand jury, so you would call the firsthand witnesses who observe these things to come in and testify about what they saw, to show them the documents. but there is also the purpose of locking certain people in to their stories. so if you want someone like an allen weisselberg to cooperate, it is very important that you put him in front of the grand jury and get him to testify under oath so he doesn t wiggle out of it later and change his tune. it means this is a significant step in advancing that process. right. but i m wondering specifically your view, and i guess i will spell it out slightly more precisely, what if you have a couple grand jurors that say i
prosecutor, demanding to know why this was not relevant. at one point the judge slammed his hand on the desk, sending a pen flying. this type of emotional display is unheard of in federal court. the judge said i cannot understand this. if someone at the jail takes your wallet, they give you a receipt. they take your kids and you get nothing? not even a slip of paper? or this report from the state of maryland. where many children have been reportedly been sent with little information. one is 18 months old. several are too young to speak to their new caregivers or help social workers track down people who could take them in. 6-year-olds who don t know why they fled their countries. it is clear this crisis is far from over. to put things in perspective, a map compiled by the washington post show where children are being sent around the u.s., joe, and if you take a look at this they re scattered, and come from the texas border, places as far as washington state and up here
texas told the washington post, quote, one of my colleagues asked on the stand about the whereabouts of myin client s child. the prosecutor objected to the relevance of the question. the judge turned on the prosecute demanding to know why this wasn t relevant. at one point he slammed his hand on the desk sending a pen flying. this type of emotional display is unheard of in federal court. i can t understand this, the judge said, if someone at the jail takes your wallet they give you a receipt. they take your kids and you get nothing? not each a slip of paper? that s a judge asking that question. dabby is a val owes has spent the morning in mcallen texas attending a misdemeanor hearing. i m sure it was eye opening. what did you see when you were in that courtroom? something that is very atypical for federal court in
general. that is 60 to 70 defendants lined up in shackels with only their right hand free so they could take the oath if they were going to enter a plea which almost all of them did enter a plea. this kind of mass production, mass plea hearing, mass sentencing is also unheard of in federal court. it s not what federal courts do. you might see that in state or local court but not in this jurisdiction. the other thing that you see here is the combining of an initial appearance, a plea hearing, and sentencing all in one day. these are things that normally takes months in the federal system so that probation can write up a report and that a sometimes hours long sentencing hearing can be conducted. instead, this was done conveyor belt style with the magistrate judge pointing to individual defendants and essentially do you plead guilty, do you plead guilty, do you plead guilty? those defendants did plead