organized the event and tasked with making him look appear presidential after reporters were done laugh ing at the candidate, one of his colleagues turned to him and reportedly said, nice event, matt. it may have just cost us the election. besides that, it was great. so mike pence, former vice president, you got a lot of company. maybe you should call one of these folks and have a beer. still to come, more of your best and worst social media comments. go vote. should the timing ofny trump trial be influenced by the date of the election? just ask my old friend, kevin. nothing like enjoying a cold one while watchihing the game. who s winning? we are, my friend. we arere. icy hot. ice works fast. heat makes it last. feel the power ofontrast therapy.
maga supporters were complaining this process was dragging, but now it s, why now? there will never be an ideal date for trump. let s go asap. to that, i would add, as i pointed out, the next 15 months, there s no clean opportunity where there won t be conflict. it doesn t have an easy resolution. a quick final word from you. no easy resolution. values are intention with each other. what s going to happen, according to the judge, is that the criminal administration of justice is going to take precedent. so they are going to move this case notwithstanding what else is going on on the calendar. then we ll see what happens. rofessor, thank you. you want you to hit up my website. go to smerconish and answer the poll question. should the timing of any trump trial be influenced by the date
read the tea leaves or what did you read in the transcript that causes you to change your view? well, the judge deployed what i want to call the no shenanigans rule. she said we re going to do this, we re going to do this timely. we re not going to play any games. we re not going to try this case in the media. we are going forward. so she threw down the gauntlet and said we re going to be ready. the government turned over, i believe, 11 million pages of discovery, which is sort of unheard of at this early stage. so i expect the judge is going to say, if everything has been turned over, and if the defense has had time to prepare, we re going to trial. you heard my view. my view being don t cut him any slack, but don t treat him any differently. i know that a critic, and i m not sure if you re a critic, i
heard before americans vote. the mote reese indictment lists six unindicted coconspirators, and it s true, that might be a strategy used to get those individuals to flip. but unless and until such time is they are indicted, it makes the case against donald trump much more straight forward, much more streamlined for trial. the purpose of friday s hearing was to discuss a doj request for protective order, which if granted, will similarly accelerate the pretrial discovery process in that case. which reminds me in the mar-a-lago case, much more information has been given to the trump defense lawyers than they are entitled to at this stage pretrial. in the january 6th case, the special counsel s office on thursday told the judge they would be ready for trial this coming january 2nd. that s a sprint. and it means among the three existing cases, this one would go first that the feds indicted