legal strategy from donald trump s defense and classified documents case. his attorneys are asking the judge for a lengthy delay of his trial. judge cannon who will oversee the case from federal court in fort pierce, florida, had originally said in august trial date, and special counsel jack smith asked for december. late last night, trump s lawyers submitted a 12 page filing, requesting the trial be delayed until after the presidential election. the filing says that trump is, quote currently the likely republican party nominee. this undertaking requires a tremendous amount of time and energy, and that effort will continue until the election on november 5th, 2024. trump s team also implied that the case was political, calling it, quote, a prosecution advanced by the administration of a sitting president against his chief political rival, himself, a leading candidate for the presidency. but for facts s sake, the prosecution is not being advanced by joe biden or his administrat
tomorrow imagine the roof if the 50 odds that you had just been chosen as one of the first people in to decide whether to criminally indict donald trump. that may very well be the case for the grand jurors who were just seated in fulton county georgia. today about 100 georgians showed up at the superior court of fulton county in atlanta. and for the sake of the privacy, we are not going to show you any of them but you can see, fulton county district attorney fani willis was there. she is right there. now the judge sent about half of the potential jurors home. the other half he directed to one side of the room, towards the other. they were split into grand jury a and grand jury b. h one was made up of 20 jurors plus alternates. now other than a $25 a day these grand jurors will get further, time they may also get the chance to make history. for more than two years, now fani willis has been investigating trump s alleged election interference in the state of georgia. last, yea
for the presidency. but for facts s sake, the prosecution is not being advanced by joe biden or his administration. so far we ve gotten no response from judge cannon or the justice department. meanwhile, today, a georgia judge selected two new grand juries. they are likely to be tasked with deciding when to bring election interference charges against trump. fulton county d. a., fani willis, her investigation has been underway for over two years. these new jurors will be the latest panel to examine evidence in that case. remember, this all started back in a regular grand jury for district attorney fani willis was presenting witnesses who were willing to come in without being subpoenaed. there were lots of witnesses who were resisting those kinds of voluntary appearances. and she empaneled a special grand jury with the subpoena power. now, she is going to be heading back to a regular grand jury, that being the grand jury with the power to indict. the new grand juries will b
meanwhile, in fulton county i think people thought that we came into this as some kind of game. this is not again at all. an unbelievable look inside the courtroom as the grand jury that could decide whether to indict trump is finally seated. does it go to court or does it not? if you find that there is probable cause, you must indict. and the surreal turn in the house republican stunt to damage joe biden. msnbc makes fun of me when i said that there is a lot of people that were involved in the biden shenanigans that are currently missing. congressman jamie raskin on james comer s key informant, who has been revealed to be a fugitive from justice. the people on msnbc who made fun of me when i said we had an informant that was missing, they should feel like fools right now. when all in starts, right now. the good evening from new york. i m chris hayes. the moment we were all expecting his now or i ve. in the late night filing from monday, 30 minutes before