that determination that this is fair game. i want to follow up on that. just the fact that evidence has been presented to a grand jury has not meant that the fraud crime would be anticipated already. that would be litigation before the 23rd over whether or not otherwise privileged communications between donald trump and his lawyers, plural, by the way, but this is rudy giuliani, the cindy powell, jenna alice, there s all of these other lawyers that are involved, there would be some kind of dispositive ruling that would come from the trump trial court judge, state quarter federal court, before we get that evidence, right? yes. we did have these findings by a judge for the grand jury that said that, for the investigative purposes, testimony could be presented. now we have a separate issue, whether this should be presented at trial. there will be motions to suppress that based on the attorney-client privilege, and also, katie, this is a reason that sometimes trial dates don t stick. a
even though he s made his demand, and that date has been set for october, there is what s known as six quotable delay, war judgment for the delay a trial date while it works through these pre trial motions. barb, of got 30 seconds. i wanted to ask you a follow-up on that then, this is a speedy demand, this is his ability by right under georgia statute. to go to trial by october 23rd. if the state isn t ready to go, could charges be dismissed? absolutely. he has that absolute right. sometimes defendants will assert their speedy trial right in an effort to keep a prosecutor, you, know catch them flat-footed and not ready to go. that happens from time to time. fani willis says she s ready. this delay we saw from january where we had the special grand jury, to the filing of the indictment, was what she was doing during that time was getting ready for trial in case it was a speedy trial demand. my bet is that she ll be ready to go. barbara mcquade, always keeping it tight and given us
know she didn t cross that he and art that i. having said, that does this give them the likelihood of a trial beginning earlier, and then separating off from the rest of them? fani willis wanted all 19 to be tried together. how much do these little jigsaw pieces moving about the board, how much is that complicating things for her? i think it complicate anything for that form of difficult ernie. we had reported two weeks before the indictment, she was ready to go to trial as soon as anyone else want to go to trial. i think, if you look at what the doctor tierney s office was doing in the lead up to the charges coming down, prepping for the pre trial motions, potential appeals coming down. they, have already explored all these avenues. if you look at the findings of the district attorney in the mark meadows case, for removal. she s already talking about the hatch act. already talking about why mark meadows doesn t have the ability to stay, in federal court. she jumped the gun almost a