overseeing the intellect it that seems impossible, when it comes to donald trump, because he is making them front and center in his political rhetoric. what do you make of that, and how difficult of a situation did she find herself navigating, allowing him to be able to speak but at the same time putting very strict limits and parameters on what he can speak about? judge chutkan is up to the task. she s experienced, and i think she can handle it. but she is in a very difficult position, because putting him in custody, has to be a last resort. he may push her to that. he will see it as a political advantage, and so she has to be careful not to give him that advantage. but there is a limit to what she can do to enforce his
systems are protected? well, good evening, and thank you for having me. i do want to take a moment just to say i am thinking about jacksonville, and all of the victims and their families. hate has no place in this country, and we must stand together united against gun violence and hate. and going directly into the question you asked, there s a couple things to unpack with the georgia indictment section on the election breach in coffee county. first and foremost is that donald trump s attempts to put chaos across our nation, and to disrupt american elections did not stop the insurrection. at some reporters have alleged that the person involved with the security breach in the georgia situation is a guy called i bring that up because he was the person who worked several months later with colorado clerk tina peters from
supremacy affords, and the mugshot is part of that. you had republican pundits and republican lawmakers basically for years chanting, lock her up. that was their mantra. and they campaigned on that and they pretended that they cared about law and order and holding the powerful to account. and yet here we are, seeing their response over the last couple of days, what do you make of the gop attempts to spin this mugshot into an asset, as opposed to a liability? look, i think it s really important to focus on that. that this really isn t about donald trump, it s about what s happening to the republican party. the reason donald trump is leading in these polls, is because he s what republicans want. and if you go back to what happened on january 6th, it was an effort, an attempted coup, it involved all levels of the republican party. from the white house down to the attorney generals association, senators,
that same day, the judge overseeing trump s federal case on election fraud has signaled that she will choose a trial date. and if she opt for a trial in early 2024, as prosecutors have requested, trump s already packed courtroom calendar will get that much more complicated. joining me to discuss this and more, jill wine-banks phil, msnbc legal analyst. she s a former assistant watergate special prosecutor and former general counsel of the army and co-host sister in law port cast. for renitta shannon and stuart stevens, advisor to the lincoln project, also author of it was all a lie. and he was mitt romney s chief strategist for his 2012 campaign. it s great to have all three of you with us. jill, i ll start with you because of the legal aspect that we are talking about, and our colleague lisa really pointed this out clearly earlier today. she said that this news, that john eastman will likely join sydney powell and ken cheseboro in demanding a speedy trial in fulton county, signals tha
there is some kind of splintering from the rest of the defendants, and that could depend on perhaps, strategy. explain that to us. i think part of it is that when the first request was made, by cheseboro, he thought that he would catch fani willis not ready. and that he would have an advantage, and that the trial would start within the legally mandated time of the georgia statute. which means that under georgia statute, the trial had to start by november 3rd. once he saw that he was wrong and she said, fine, let s go, i m ready, others may have thought, well, i ll get in on this. i ll be severed from donald trump s trial by joining this early trial date. because donald trump is going to delay, delay, delay, divert, that is his pattern and practice. and so i ll be tried separately, and that gives me a break.