questions of severability and time. melissa, trump lawyer jenna ellis, complained recently that she is not getting any support with her legal bills, despite trying an online campaign. now today, you saw harrison floyd in court saying he cannot afford a lawyer. how much does the inability of a defendant to pay for a lawyer factor in to a trial? does donald trump have to worry about codefendants flipping if he is not paying for their legal funds? i m nervous that that is exactly the case. they would have an incentive to resolve their case as soon as possible. that may mean cooperating with the state. reaching some type of either a plea deal, or immunity deal in exchange for their testimony. i think it would be, in donald trump s best interest, to make sure that his codefendants are properly represented to head
president biden, made a rare admission that he is keeping up with trump s legal woes. have you seen donald trump s mugshot yet? mister president i did see it on television. what did you think? handsome guy. wonderful guy. joining us now, aremelissa redmon, former prosecutor in the fulton county district attorney s office, and now a professor at the university of georgia school of law. we also have joyce vance, former u.s. attorney for the northern district of alabama. and barbara mcquade, former u.s. attorney for the eastern district of michigan. melissa, joyce, barb, it s great to have the three of you with us. melissa, let me start with you. talk to me about georgia s speedy trial law here. it s obviously now being front and center with what we ve seen. what does it mean, that both sidney powell and kenneth chesebro want to move up their trial? and is there any benefit to them in doing that? right, i think that for these particular defendants, they have a lot at stake
in mind is the first trial date is rarely the last. that is because of the organic nature of litigation. she may set a trial date for spring of 2024, or something along those lines. but things happen. motions get filed, defendants get sick. defendants fire their lawyers. oftentimes, the first trial date is not the last one. because of the reality of litigation that causes a judge to find what is called excludable, and set a new trial date. just because we have a trial date in early 2024 on monday, doesn t mean that s the one that s really going to stick. needless to say, monday will be a busy day on many fronts. barbara mcquade, joyce vance, melissa redmon, thank you so much to the three of you for making time for us tonight. greatly appreciated, as always. as i mentioned, we have a lot to get to tonight. like the eerie similarities between some of the alleged criminal conduct in georgia and this, the nixon directed burglary at the watergate hotel. plus, congressional republicans
of twisted cult of personality that i think being president was his jam, but this ain t it. as we watch this motorcade head back to the airport, melissa redmon is with us, a former prosecutor in fulton county, georgia, now professor at the university of georgia school of law. thank you for being with us. in fulton county tonight. can you describe the practicalities of what the former president just went through? we were able to report in realtime that he had entered the jail, he had been arrested, he was there for in custody, and that he had been released. we were able to report that he has had his mugshot taken. we presume he has also had his fingerprints taken. can you describe the physical setting he would ve been in and what that experience would have been like for him? the area where individuals were turning themselves in in the jail s support from the cells where people are held. so it s a lobby type area where
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