non-committal about handling this entire case. so, it s going to be a really busy next month for this fulton county case. and the trial or the hearing, rather, on whether or not this should be heard in a federal court, this should be transferred from georgia to a federal court, that s monday. is that right? reporter: that s exactly right. for the mark meadows case, on monday that s the next thing that s really going to happen is a hearing for mark meadows and this question of whether his case should be removed to federal court. he is confident that if his fulton county prosecution gets removed to federal court that he can get dismissed. he argues he is protected under a law that protects certain federal officials from state level prosecutions. but yesterday the district attorney, fani willis, she weighed in and she fought back at that. she said, look, what you were doing has nothing to do with your role as chief of staff. instead, that was political activity. and jake, a real
speedy trial rates. georgia has a strict speedy trial law that essentially says if a defendant wants to be tried quickly, he has the right to be tried what amounts to this case by november of this year, 2023, not 2024. the trial has to start by then. and the d.a. has agreed to this and the judge has agreed to this. now, the question is will any of the other defendants be pulled forward to have a trial that quickly. the d.a. fani willis has said i m ready to try all 19 of them in late october 2023. the problem, though, is she cannot force people who don t want a speedy trial. she cannot force defendants who do not want obviously the former president does not want a speedy trial. tactically what this is going to do is lead us to a situation where we re going to have at least two speedy trials, maybe more. you get to see the government s whole case. you get to see the witnesses take the stand. you get to see cross-examination, what worked, what didn t. it s a very important move by
thing, but this is a special case because of the election workers and the people whose lives were destroyed by these lies. these lies had these lies were like bombs being dropped on ordinary people, just election workers and ordinary people who were trying to do their job, trying to do their duty, who were being real patriots. and all of a sudden the president of the united states starts saying these people are liars. rudy giuliani, one of the most famous people in the world, starts calling these people crack dealers and everything you could possibly imagine. they ll never get that sense of safety back. they ll never get that sense of belonging, and so prosecutors stood up for those people and said you can t do that. and today and by the way, this is a stable system working appropriately. you don t see riots. you don t see troops in the streets. you don t see mass demonstrations like you would in other countries. this is a stable system working appropriately when people in office a
try to steal the georgia election from joe biden, which effectively is the opposite of what donald trump says happened. but this will be not about is there even probable cause that the indictment is correct or that there s enough evidence to move forward. this is just, is there a plausible claim that he was serving in his federal capacity? so, it s a low standard, to me. joining me now, our senior legal affairs correspondent, paula reid, who is outside the fulton county jail. paula, we just saw donald trump leave after being arrested and booked. when is he next expected back in atlanta, georgia? reporter: well, jake, it s going to be a busy next month in this case because the next step here is arraignment. remember, in his federal cases, he was processed and then he had his initial appearance and his arraignment all at once. but here in fulton county, things come in phases. first they negotiated bond.
that there will be a penalty to be paid. reporter: and one thing sarah and i have been talking about and reporting on throughout the day is trump s new attorney that he met when he got here just an hour ago. i know you know him and know of him. he s a renowned criminal defense attorney here. given what you know about him, given what you know about fani willis do you shink she has an airtight case here? i ll put fani willis up against anybody any day. i wouldn t be surprised if there s not an attempt to negotiate a plea. he s represented a lot of high profile people obviously, but he does not have a flawless record, and fani is a darn good attorney. so if fani is putting this case up, i think that everybody should bring their a-game to the