Challenges, the current Front Ritter is facing is the guru, cnn senior legal analyst, ellie, the calendar is the big thing, the calendar the court dates, what is a look like a weve never seen anything quite like this. The highest dates, four pending criminal charges, two of them brought by the doj special counsel jack smith, relating to donald trumps effort to steal the 2020 election and the other related to classified documents and statelevel cases, one in manhattan related to Hush Money Payments to Stormy Daniels and in fulton county, georgia for election subversion. Lets have fun with the calendar. Trials, first of all, Jack Smiths Doj Case starts march 4, manhattan hush Money Case is scheduled for march 25, theyre both the same time, thats impossible, one of them will have to give way, jack smiths other case scheduled for may 20
of rules that we fought against when we had a revolution. do you care? right. and that s why this really is about us. and it s about civic lessons and the sort of heart break, i think, of the first trump presidency was how much, at least in my case, how much i thought norms were really still embedded. i knew there were injustices and there were things to fight over. right. but i thought these were things that you didn t look past. yeah. and the other piece very quickly for you, tim. there s also the b.s. factor for trump. yes. trump was supposed to testify in his other case he s freaking out about, the money case in d.c. i mean in new york. he s not going to testify anymore because the rules said he couldn t go and do a political speech and he couldn t yell at the clerk. and so, he s like, no. i m not he was never going to testify. let s just be clear. well, the only reason he was there was to engage in political theater. correct. he doesn t know anything
the untested nature of this reason to believe that alvin bragg, who has been a prosecutor for more than 20 years, he said it during his press conference would bring a case that he did not believe that he could be successful. eating a conviction on and he didn t just say that the underlying case or the secondary crime i should say, relates to either state or federal campaign election violations. he also talked about new york state laws, and the indictment just has to put the defendant on noticed he doesn t have to tell his entire case in that indictment. and people may not like the fact that he didn t you know, lay out his entire case in the way that they would like for him to do, but that s not what new york law required him to do. it was a indictment to put trump unnoticed. there will be a discovery. there will be motions that will be filed in the between now and that next december, a date and we will learn more. about what that secondary crime is. but let me ask you this because you
block pads. he keeps losing every time he tries to block someone s testimony. all right, caleb poland s thanks for the latest, their and trump s arrest, and arraignment, is just the first step in a long legal road ahead from manhattan, d a alvin bragg. it s one thing to bring an indictment, but winning and conviction will be much more difficult. so let s bring in cnn s paula reed. what are the biggest hurdles brag, will face paula. well pamela at a high level. this case is about buying and then trying to suppress potentially scandalous stories ahead of the 2016 election, but the way it s charged is 34 counts of falsifying business records, and they were charged as a felony and in order for these crimes to be a felony. you have to allege that this was part of a larger criminal scheme . and right now it s not clear what that other crime was. it doesn t have to be specified in the indictment. it was not specified in the statement. the facts. yesterday the district attorney had a press con
after initially lying about the details, and on the edwards side , andrew young, who was labeled as inconsistent the role of politics, also playing a part in both cases, trump and republicans called the d, a democrat, abusing his power. and the edwards case. democrats did the same thing against a bush appointed u. s attorney. there are differences. however we want to note that the payments of the edwards case continued after he quit the race. stormy daniels received a one time payment before the election. edwards case a federal one, while trump is being charged at the state level. also in the edwards case , the money was from rich donors , and in trump s case, his own pocket. edwards was ultimately acquitted. now we don t know yet if trump s case will make it to trial, but prosecutors are intent on putting it before a jury. given the parallels between this case, let s get perspective now from the jury, foreman and the edwards trial. david rashawn. thank you so much