their cases and send them to federal court, blocking their arrest in fulton county. what does this say this is going to mean going forward for the case? i think what it suggests is the judge didn t buy their argument in terms of getting that relief to block them from having to surrender. but it doesn t necessarily mean the judge won t go for their arguments about having the entire case removed to federal court. i think it is too early to tell on that point. as for getting the case blocked or at least getting it temporarily paused so that they wouldn t have to get arrested, on that point the judge said, look, you don t have a good argument, it is not supported by the law, the law is clear that in a situation like this, the state case continues to go on, even while you re making all of your motions in federal court until the thing is actually removed. at this point it hasn t actually been removed, so therefore you have to go ahead and surrender. and the d.a. has made it really clear, j
think it s entirely possible that president putin gave the order for this. of course, you know, that would be almost impossible to prove unless maybe there s some investigation by somebody who can do get into the kremlin s mind. but i think it is it is his modus operandi. as everyone has been saying, the fury putin has when somebody crosses him and is a traitor. and then what could be the result? i think that this is really destabilizing. as if things are not destabilized enough. because another question is, what about wagner people themselves? the fighters who actually were supporters of prigozhin? they thought of him as their hero. will they rise up again? could something like that happen? regular people, of course, won t go into the streets. but i m wondering about those fighters who are now in belarus
is happening wednesday. eight candidates have hit the polling and fundraising requirements to qualify for that does include former president trump. he announced yesterday he won t go. alexis mcadam is live in des moines with more on this. alexis. hey arthel.we are in the cheese curd tent right now. this is pretty much the most popular part of the iowa state fair even though it s more of a wisconsin delicacy which we will get to in a minute. there s been lots of action here in terms of politics which means the main course here in des moines. as a state fair wraps up to what s on the gop heavy hitters go to other states including georgia marie just saw a few people on stage a short time ago including former new jersey governor chris christie who slammed donald trump, watch. how about we do this, this time. we nominate someone who we know in our hearts will put the country first and not their self interest first. we will put your children and grandchildren ahead of their own
front-runner and won t go after the elephant in the room, for the most part. it s absurd. for people like ron desantais, this is his last chance to turn his campaign around. for other people like tim scott and nikki haley, this might be the first time most americans have seen him debate, so it is an important opportunity for them, too. chris christie who has been swinging at donald trump over course of this campaign has an opportunity to knock him down a few pegs, but if all the candidates refuse to say to their audience, look, you like donald trump. i like donald trump, he s fine, but he s probably going to be in prison within the next year or two. let s elect someone else. if not, then we ll say that this is a complete fraud of an election and all of these candidate are running vanity projects. what do you say to conventional wisdom and s.e. cupp? i agree with s.e. there s this cowardly denialism that is seeping into the
president and if he were convicted then what happens because he can t pardon himself? there are still a lot of questions we still have around the sequencing of this so i don t know. maybe joyce could weigh in on that because that seems to me critical as well, how this all plays out. right, so the sequencing will be interesting to watch. trump last a full dance card to state the obvious. i would look for judges and prosecutors to coordinate. willis has a lot of complexity in this. lots of moving parts. people who may challenge being tried together. i think we ll see a relatively quick effort to remove this case to federal court. we saw that earlier in manhattan. trump s lawyers will argue that he at least should be tried in federal court where he has unique federal defenses to assert because of the role he played as president. this one won t go to trial on the six-month schedule that willis said last night she