trial, d.a. willis told the court that her team is ready to go to trial on october 23rd. that is just under two months away, in a sign of a very aggressive stance from a fulton county district attorney. by popular demand, joining me now is who else but the law firm. neal katyal is the former u.s. accounting act general and the former fbi general counsel. i am so thrilled to have you here on set with me today. so there are so many different components of this week, and i want to dig into as many as possible. a judge granted cheeseburger quest for a speedy trial, sydney powell filed one request. there also reports that john eastman is asking for the same thing. that means that a number of these codefendants would be separated from donald trump. what does that mean for trump s case? okay, so there are two january six cases, there s the georgia one going on at you are talking about and there s the federal one with jack smith has asked for a trial to begin on january 2nd of 2024, with res
claim. is he going to testify? is he going to put a codefendant on the stand to testify about how all of this was extremely kosher for mark meadows to do? no i think the judges gonna reject this attempt to remove the case from georgia state court, federal. court and i think mark meadows will find himself, eventually, shoulder to shoulder with some of those other 19 rico codefendant. you, go i have a minute. left i do want to ask you the following. we do know one candidate chesbrough is going to trial at the end of october. october 20, they re 2020. three that is in two months. the a fani willis is saying, hey, give me two tether bite to work of this recovery. i m ready to give you this but what does it tell you that fani willis, a state court prosecutor, not a federal court prosecutors like. let s rumble. i m ready to go. i think that ken chesbrough gambled a bit and missed. we were reporting two weeks before the indictment came down that our team was ready to go
so connect what you know from your committee work to the other work that you just mentioned at the top of the interview, as a federal prosecutor. when you see some of these defendants now trying to get into federal court, or trying to get a separate trial, if you are on the defense councils, is that what you would want to do? do you think that if most of them are in the court at the same time, does it make it easier for fani willis to prove the conspiracy? i think it is a tactical move by defendants to peel away. if you are a lesser, least kabul defendant in a multi defendant criminal conspiracy, it is in your interest to not be sitting next to the leader of the conspiracy. you want to peel off. i think the speedy trial request followed by ken chesbrough reflects that, it is, for him, he wants to go quickly, he wants evidence limited to him and in the case in which he has severed from the group, it would be a much more streamlined case and a better chance for him to prevail. i thin
in minutes if we had to. so they are suggesting that they are prepared to go forward. the other interesting thing about this case is that, if it goes forward, even if donald trump is not a part of this case, meaning that he is not sitting there at a council table, also on, trial is going to be very much present during the trial because every single one of donald trump s acts are going to be acts in furtherance of a conspiracy and mr. chesbrough is in charged with being a part of. now, he doesn t have to wait. transportation have to wait for the removal decision for say, mark meadows. it doesn t have to wait for all that to be unpacked. he had he can call for its own individual speedy trial. i do wonder what you think of the likelihood of getting a conviction on the 19th, and i should note for everyone that just because you have a trial date starting it doesn t mean that you have got to complete your jury selection by october 23rd, that might be the big lift here is to start something