ultimately provoking the events of that fateful day on january 6th. and we believed he was, ultimately, guilty of constitutional crimes, ultimately the constitutional crime for which he was impeached. a trial was held in the senate. the most bipartisan vote for conviction in history presidential beechmont. not withstanding than it not meet the two thirds standard for vote. at the end of the day, as mitch mcconnell, again, the risk of quoting into opted, he has said this previously that no former president is immune to civil liability or criminal liability. at the end of the day the special counsel, department of justice, are gonna make the judgments they believe are consistent with the law and the facts and i am comfortable with whatever decisions the special counsel and a grand jury may or may not reach. what s your sense of the decision about making certain charges and how that difference between what you did in the impeachment and what jack smith has to do? jackson s got a clock.
the presidents broader scheme to avoid facing justice or potentially jail time. today judge cannon s with the difference. she said the amount of evidence and discovery in the case warranted a trial date several months down the line from december. so the ex president will be forced to sit before a federal jury and a jury of his peers as they consider whether or not he is guilty of a sprawling 37 count indictment. this news is not great for the republican front-runner, because that date, may 20th, 2024, is right smack in the middle of the primary season. i m going to take you down a little walk here with the calendar. january 15th kicks off the primary season. those are the iowa caucuses. march 5th is super tuesday, a whole bunch of states vote on march 5th, but come march the ex president has more to worry about than just primaries, because 20 days later he is due in manhattan. march 25th. to face trial and what
prosecutors say was an illegal hush money scheme that he orchestrated during the 2016 campaign. and since this march 25th trial is a criminal trial, he has to physically be in court rather than campaigning. he ll be forced to sit down and listen to how prosecutors lay out the evidence against him. eight days after, that come april, there are a slew of primaries in delaware, new york, rhode island, and wisconsin, and less than a week before his federal trial is set to start in florida he s gonna have to be looking through papers and documents. there are contests in maryland and nebraska and west virginia. that s may 14th. then may 20th trump takes a break from the campaign trail for roughly two weeks, not by choice, but by the order of law. you have to listen to federal prosecutors made their case to the jury and the start of before kentucky and oregon hold their primaries and even if that trial date sticks, right at the end of it there will be more primaries in washington
into that enterprise definition. so when you think about georgia, on the one hand it seems simple because we all heard that phone call, and most of us we think wow, if i were on a jury i would nowhere to go with this. on the other hand, we are good guys in bad guys in all of these things, and in georgia they re all bunch people in the middle who were called in and called by donald trump and pressure was a pride plighted. and they didn t do his bidding, but becomes unclear whether that s black or white i. guess in the case of a clear criminal charge if you didn t do the criminal thing that trump was asking you to do you are on the right side of this? there are likely a lot of individuals who are not charged in this or facing amorphous criminal liability, so they may be immunized or they may have some other protections, but they essentially would be witnesses in any trial against the former president and the individuals who were charged at the end of the day. we assume, we only get
needs and that witness testifies in fani willis s case, what s the danger? the danger is ultimately when that witness has to testify in trial, they may have to situations, two times where they have testified before the grand jury. the danger is they are inconsistent in some way and that can be used to impeach that winners. even if it s not a big inconsistency you could tell the jury, well they said this in georgia and they re saying this now? i m a defense attorney now so you draw on any inconsistency to impeach a witness, even very small. good to see you. thank you for helping us. sarah krissoff is a former federal prosecutor in the southern district of new york. still ahead, he was the hidden resistance inside the white house and now he s got a new warning about his old boss. now months after republicans trade booed to black legislators, is the state of tennessee s even a democracy