larger, you could feel both sides squaring off on it. and the defense lawyers got a clue from jack smith. he s had very little this, week but he said speedy trial. they were keyed in on this. john laura was speaking to nbc this morning, said you waited two and a half years and now you want a speedy trial, trying to have that both. ways why do you care so much about the timing? i ve said before, the new york case may or may not be significant to people, you can debate it. but there is a world where that case goes to trial and he loses before the election and he is not put in prison, which means it doesn t have, for him, a material effect on. it other people might be embarrassed, other people might care in the voting booth. but it doesn t physically change the way this. currently we re all squared off on that. when they will be arguing is, all this granary material, this wide-ranging investigation, doj said it was one of their largest. when you take it all together, it means they will ne
instituting presidential emergency powers and using martial law and the insurrection act, maybe he wanted to do according to this indictment, all our lives would be different. we would be living in a brutal, autocratic state. it almost happened, cannot happen again. jen psaki and michael beschloss, thank you both so much for joining us on this historic day. coming up in a little more than three, weeks we will learn the trial date for donald trump s latest case. so when should we expect one of the most if not the most important trials in american history to begin, next. mmercial, i think i m late on my payment. it s okay, the general gives you a break. yeah, we let you pick your own due date. good to know, because this next scene might take a while. for a great low rate, go with the general.
it all happened, the insurrectionists, people marching towards the capitol, they marched near that courthouse. and there are so many aspects of this that kind of bring you full circle, might not be the right description, but that is where it happened, that is where we all watched in horror as people marched violently toward the capitol, as people like donald trump and others looked at the other way while violence was happening and he even sparked it. and today, he wasn t a courthouse, as you noted, without family members, with a press secretary, a staffer, no offense to press secretaries, but not the same as your family members. [laughter] that is a stark difference, without the power and the besiege of the presidency. it is quite a jarring split screen between today and two and a half years ago. that is good advice for folks in washington and politics. your press secretary is no substitute for a family member. keep that in mind. you can be close with them, yes. don t mix them up