yesterday s hearing, but he was quick to respond, as you can imagine, on social media. in one post, he wrote, quote, trump-hating judge, blastering her for scheduling the trial a day before super tuesday. he claimed he d appeal judge chutkan s decision, something he does not have the power to do. lisa, i ll start with you. on the date of march 4th, ambitious compared certainly to what the trump team wanted, which was a kind of outrageous demand to push it into 2026. a little bit later than what jack smith wanted but not a whole lot later. not a whole lot later. but reasonable, willie. i think one of the reasons it is reasonable is for the ways in which judge chutkan was discussing with john lauro yesterday. the fact these 12.8 million pages of discovery about which he made a whole lot weren t actually 12.8 million pages of discovery. she noted for him how much of that is duplicative, how much of that is already in the public domain, and how much of it they ve already had in their pos
a viable fall election candidate against joe biden. and if we lose to joe biden, republicans need to understand that we re going to be looking at a packed supreme court. we re going to be looking at the end of the filibuster and a number of other issues that folks like me and the rest of the folks in our party can t have. so i m in this race because we want someone who can beat joe biden. on that debate stage wednesday night, willie, i was the only one on that stage that s ever defeated a democratic incumbent in an election. i did it in a very blue state, being outspent 3-1. that s why i m the guy who can beat joe biden. this trial date for donald trump just makes it even clearer that he cannot be our nominee. if he is, we re going to lose the election. and it s just one of several trial dates next year. we ve been showing this calendar this morning, governor, of how busy it is. this does not even include the georgia trial, which we dropped somewhere in there. last time you were on,
plus, the iowa caucuses that month. then, with georgia s case, followed by the new york hush money trial, super tuesday march 5th, finally, in may there s a mar-a-lago documents trial. again, all proposed dates, nothing set in stone. that calendar will change. joining us now, georgia grand jury witnesses, cnn political commentator, former georgia lieutenant governor, jeff duncan. former georgia democratic state senator, also michael, more former u.s. attorney for georgia s middle district. and cnn senior legal analyst, elie honig. let s begin, i guess, with the trial timeline for the d. a. willis. i mean, that s gonna change? there is no earth, there is no planet on which this case would be tried in march. due to the logjam that we just saw. now, we see all these four different indictments, and they re all jockeying for a very limited trial space. but the da has asked to try this in march. first of all, there s an ongoing racketeering trial,
read the lgbt community. this is not a surprise , obviously, given we don t know if she was listening directly to the former president. certainly, he has put her name, that judges name, front and center. this is what happens. this is exactly the danger and the rhetoric. donald trump has spent the last week or so attacking the judge over an over. jeff duncan over and over. and we ve seen it, how many times do we need to see this story? people see what he says, people act on what he says. of course, january 6th. the day after, there was a search of mar-a-lago, a guy stormed the fbi office in ohio and got shot and killed. good work by the feds to act very quickly here to swear out this warrant. charging this person with intimidation and threats against the federal judge. someone has to step up here. it has to be the prosecutors. they ve already let donald trump say way more about judge chutkan, about themselves, about the witnesses than any
case which it said could take as little as four weeks. the former president, who is expected to challenge that, took the first step tonight on his social network, quoting now, but leaving out some of the personal attacks on smith and president biden, quote, only an out-of-touch lunatic would ask for such a date, one day into the new year and maximum election interference with iowa. now whatever you make of that, in particular, the proposed date is yet another entry on what is already a very crowded calendar. take a look. surrounding that date are the trump organization s civil fraud trial. this october the e. jean carroll definition. that is the same day as the caucuses. ten days before the 15th, manhattan hush money trial. and the mar-a-lago documents trial is scheduled for may 20th. today in that case, trump co-defendants walt nauta and carlos de oliveira, they were in court. more on that and what appear to be delaying tactics there in a