jury, and i think one from the d.c. jury pool, this stuff ain t going to fly. basically you sound really confident. you know what they re doing. you don t think it s that debatable. they re going to say a version of what we just heard in fairness to the judge and say, hey, doj had all this time, spent all this time. it s two and a half years later, they come around, tell us they have no time, and we need till after the election. then what happens? so, look, they can make that argument. i think it doesn t really hold a lot of water. what does hold more water and the one thing i ll agree with lauro, although he brought it up at a time that was inappropriate, and discovery and how much they re going to have to go through. i think the other bigger challenge is not just discovery, but this particular defendant s own court schedule. he s not lots of commitments. you put that very david, you put that very
but think about this if he is complaining that it took so long years why would you want to make it take everyone longer now? well, that s actually what we learned about today earlier than the arraignment. in the public, he s doing interviews. late today in the arraignment is a strategy to push for a kind of fight over evidence as a mechanism, call it a tool or ploy, to drag out when this trial begins. now, that matters. it s also telling. mr. lauro hit this point in court today. he referred to jack smith what i m about to read you under the formal court term, the government. smith represents the government. here s what he said. quote, for the government to suggest that this case can be tried in the same period of the speedy trial act is somewhat
diplomatically. so, look, he s got all these cases he s got to be tried for. look, in response to what lauro said, the government can investigate something for 10, 20 years, but the speedy trial act says you have 70 days. obviously there s a lot of exclusions there. i think you make a good point. why would they want it to drag on even more? i think also two and a half years since the incident, and just getting to indictment now? i don t think that s such a big deal. what is important and what the judge has to focus on, how much discovery is there to go through? number one. number two, defense, tell me what litigation you re going to engage in before we go forward. what pretrial motions are you anticipating? the judge can say, that s a no-brainer. five minutes to decide this one. this one may take more time, maybe an oral briefing, oral argument.
we can remind viewers, the magistrate didn t say, we can wait a long time. no, what they normally do, which is set the very next date, the first appearance before an actual judge. specifically the first appearance before the judge to whom the case is assigned. exactly. now the longer question for you, given that you ve prosecuted terrorists, corrupt defendants, et cetera. what do you actually think is happening here? this was a longer arraignment because of that move. mr. lauro is making the case. jack smith clearly wants a fast trial. what s going on here, david? what s going on is they re planting the seed that their defense is to try this in the public arena because a lot of what they want as a defense is not going to be admissible or not going to work in a courtroom. and so part of that is, again, the whole trump mantra i m a victim, i can t possibly take
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