then he surrendered. then they scheduled this first hearing before the judge. and the district attorney, fani willis, said she would like to do these arraignments the week of september 5th. so, the former president and his 18 codefendants will all have to come back to fulton county for that arraignment. we can also expect, pretty much simultaneously to see legal challenges. mashlg meadows and have filed to move their cases to federal court. we expect the former president will likely do the same. rudy giuliani has also suggested on one of his podcasts that he intends to do that. jake, we also have to see these legal teams really solidify. this might be part of why the former president secured his new attorney, because they only have a finite amount of time after that arraignment to file certain challenges to that indictment. someone, for example, rudy giuliani, needs to figure out who is going to represent him throughout this trial. of course the lawyer who helped with his bond has be
non-committal about handling this entire case. so, it s going to be a really busy next month for this fulton county case. and the trial or the hearing, rather, on whether or not this should be heard in a federal court, this should be transferred from georgia to a federal court, that s monday. is that right? reporter: that s exactly right. for the mark meadows case, on monday that s the next thing that s really going to happen is a hearing for mark meadows and this question of whether his case should be removed to federal court. he is confident that if his fulton county prosecution gets removed to federal court that he can get dismissed. he argues he is protected under a law that protects certain federal officials from state level prosecutions. but yesterday the district attorney, fani willis, she weighed in and she fought back at that. she said, look, what you were doing has nothing to do with your role as chief of staff. instead, that was political activity. and jake, a real
speedy trial rates. georgia has a strict speedy trial law that essentially says if a defendant wants to be tried quickly, he has the right to be tried what amounts to this case by november of this year, 2023, not 2024. the trial has to start by then. and the d.a. has agreed to this and the judge has agreed to this. now, the question is will any of the other defendants be pulled forward to have a trial that quickly. the d.a. fani willis has said i m ready to try all 19 of them in late october 2023. the problem, though, is she cannot force people who don t want a speedy trial. she cannot force defendants who do not want obviously the former president does not want a speedy trial. tactically what this is going to do is lead us to a situation where we re going to have at least two speedy trials, maybe more. you get to see the government s whole case. you get to see the witnesses take the stand. you get to see cross-examination, what worked, what didn t. it s a very important move by
cycle in this republican primary season, it concerns me for our democracy quite frankly that we are giving into our the worst of who we are in many ways. and i wonder if this kind of indictment and sweeping nature of it, obviously it goes beyond people who directly threatened ruby freeman and shaye moss. i wonder if the district attorney is trying to send a broader message about what happens if you try to disenfranchise thousands and thousands of voters and particularly minority voters. and i think that s extremely important. we ll have many more elections. there ll been many more close elections. i won the mayors race by less than 1,000 votes. i lost a mayors race before. that s what happens when you run for office. you win some, you lose some. but i do think it s important
though that meant secret service advance teams press his doctors. he saw it as an opportunity. he knew the media was focused on him. that was a win even for bad reasons. again, he chose 7:30. he chose prime time to turn himself in because the spectacle of it all he sees as a win even if it s for something horrible like committing crimes. by the way, he commented on the tarmac he continued to make dishonest claims about the election. we re not going to play it. it s not worth hearing. you ve heard them all before. not many of the claims just not true. he s back on the plane ready to take off. and on this case in particular if they have to go they will be going to trial in october, apparently, at least with chesebro. does do you believe that fani willis is ready i mean is a prosecutor ready for that? you are supposed to always be ready as a prosecutor.