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assistant u.s. attorney in d.c. trying homicide cases and it wasn t surprising. but it was unusual. because, ordinarily, at these arraignment hearings, with a magistrate judge will do is say, let s all come back in about a month and we will bring our calendars, and we will begin to ruminate about possible trial dates. no. judge chutkan will be setting a trial date 25 days from now. and i predict it s going to be a speedy trial. andrew weissmann, to the point that we learned from john lauro tonight, he s offering an alternative piece of dialogue to what appears in the indictment. he s offering us these words from donald trump s mouth. what president trump said is, let s go with option d, let s just halt, let s just pause the voting and allow the state legislatures to take one last look and make a determination.
an admission to what they are accusing donald trump of doing? i think donald trump and his lawyers play different gain in the rest of us. i think we are all focused on the evidence it s gonna come in on trial in the court, and i think what he said tonight is harmful and, it s not gonna provide any valid legal offense, but i think donald trump s game is to win in the court of public opinion. detained the potential jury pool, solely needs one person there to nullify it. this is all about getting the public talk about it, now relayed and his lawyers and to get a pause, a think that s the game replying here. but as a dangerous game, because ultimately in a courtroom, the judge is going to instruct the jury to pay attention to the facts and the law and what they hear in court, not anything that s extraneous. that s how the system is supposed to work and i believe it will work in this case. we re gonna squeeze in a final break right here. when we come back we re gonna have a video of thi
school. one other point, which i don t think we will get to this, but if it defense lawyer who makes a statement on behalf of their client, that is an admission. okay, so this admissible in court? you have to make a motion and say i am saying this was an agent of the defendant. i mean, again, the judge would have discretion to say maybe this particular statement wasn t made for him. but there is a case called gaf that says if you are an agent of a defendant your making a statement on his or her be her behalf, that is admissible. so again, that is why it is fine to say here the defense is but to start weighing in on this, not that donald trump is going to testify, but a fee were and he didn t say exactly, he can be cross-examined on this. so this was kind of a rookie mistake. just to be clear, john is a good lawyer. i think this was not a smart move. i agree that what i ve seen so far in the transcript, he s a good lawyer in the courtroom. this is absolutely stunning.
very powerful. one of the things that i thought with so persuasive about the january 6th select committee hearings, that the key witnesses were all republicans. they were all people who worked for or with or near donald trump. i think that in similar fashion, witnesses we are going to hear from in this trial will also be republicans and trump loyalists. none more loyal certainly the then mike pence. andrew, the pence testimony is so simple and clear now and being delivered on the campaign trail so it has this double impact. we can anticipate in the courtroom but it s being heard by people who don t want to hear it. he saying, very clearly, he said, frankly, with the president has said over and over again over the last two and a half years is completely false. that s mike pence talking about donald trump. so, he s doing something that jack smith can t do. he is actually allowing voice to the allegations and the indictment in a way the jack