the best team i ve ever worked with i m honored to be working with these guys it s a family, a team, and we ll achieve the next figure. what s your next move i m going to go home and have some food. what about the change in venue? i didn t mean to be flippant with you. the judge set a motion schedule of the judge set a motion schedule that requires motion files in four months, so that s when we ll be filing motions. this whole notion of how it s novel it s not a notion it s a fact. it s never been charged before. talk about that. this district attorney, the office exist for decades and decades and you can find one if you like you ll never see a charge like this ever. you understand this simple as this a state prosecutor is prosecuting a federal election law violation that doesn t exist according to federal election law officials. simple as that you can sum it all up like that.
a presentment and you don t have to entire a plea, but here he is indicted, so a formal arraignment. he ll issue a plea. under new york law he ll be released on his own recognizance and the judge should set a discovery schedule and motion schedule and as a number of my co-panelists have pointed out, the motion schedule is the most important thing, i think it s a case that ought to be dismissed on the papers before it ever gets to trial. john: i think former president trump is expecting he will be allowed to leave the courthouse because he has at 8:00 tonight plans for a news conference at mar-a-lago after he gets back to florida. what we are looking at now is the corridor outside the courtroom. this is on the 15th floor at 100 center street. the president as we understand now would have been on the 7th floor for processing. he ll move his way up to this
indictment which he s entitled to have, or go ahead and have the indictment read. my guess is, having seen it the defense attorneys will waive the reading of the indictment. and then the judge will ask the defendant how he pleads. and the defendant then trump will enter a plea presumably of not guilty there will be some discussion about how this is not a bailable offense. but this is not it s a felony, this is not a crime that warrants bail, so there will be no discussion about bail and they ll proceed to a discussion about motions and they ll ask the defense lawyers, are there any motions that you wish to file and what kind of motion schedule would you like technically, under new york s discovery criminal procedural laws, the defendant has 45 days to file any kinds of pretrial
about these statements. these threats and intimidation and they re asking for a protective order. that is a common practice. but they re saying that they re doing because they don t want the former president to make all of these documents they have accumulated through their investigation public either through the media or posting it on social media. that s one issue that they raised. another issue that prosecutors raised is whether trump s current legal team can stand as it is tacopina, the attorney who s um sound bite you just played. they said that they believe he might have a conflict of interest. and maybe he should be disqualified from the case. they want the judge to examine that, tacopina said in open court that he never met stormy daniels. he never talked to stormy daniels, and he never viewed any of stormy daniels documents. he said that if there was any disqualification, it should just be if she were to take the stand that he would not be involved in the cross examination. we
individually. today was the first day mr. weisselberg and lawyers for the trump organization were back in court following the initial arraignment after charges were first filed in june. today really should have been kind of a no news hearing. the point of this hearing today was basically for the lawyers just to ask for more time to prepare their defense. they did ask the judge for that and they got it. the trial probably won t be until almost a year from now, which is interesting. but in haggling over how much time they could try to get from the judge, the lawyers in the courtroom today particularly the defense counsel for mr. weisselberg made quite a bit of news, which may have had the side effect of melting down the former president in that statement. judge for yourself. here is what happened in court today. defense attorney. quote, your honor, the law clearly gives the court discretion to set a motion schedule in the interest and fairness of justice and i m asking the court today to