charges out of fulton county, georgia, which may happen in the next few weeks. at this very moment the mar-a-lago classified documents trial is scheduled to begin in a federal courtroom in florida on may 20th of next year. joining us now is our not so secret weapon, msnbc legal analyst lisa rubin. lisa, people don t even know how many questions you answered for me off air, but thank you for answering the questions on air. the first one is, does this superseding indictment change the timetable for the mar-a-lago trial? it could. we now have a three defendant case. we re gonna see some additional discovery. i don t think it will be as voluminous as what we have seen before, but there is going to be additional phone records, additional texts, additional surveillance footage. we know from the superseding indictment that they had surveillance footage of nada and de oliveira walking along the pool emitter of mar-a-lago.
we know from the superseding indictment that they had surveillance footage of nada and de oliveira walking along the pool emitter of mar-a-lago. the whole part of them working through the bushes from one part of the property to the. other with they have surveillance footage from multiple locations referenced in this indictment. the discovery burden will increase that, plus we have the possibility of additional pretrial motions that can t be stopped. one of those is called the severance motion. that is when one defendant says, i can t get a fair trial if i m sitting next to that guy. that s a hard argument for someone like walt nauta to make, particularly given that he remains employed as trump s body guy. but we don t know what the status of carlos de oliveira is right now. he also is not as implicated in the criminal charges here as nauta and trump are. he could see the pretrial publicity surrounding the former president is so massive that he and nara nauta can t