question. he will not be able to talk about it, especially if they were interviewing somebody about an act of an ongoing investigation the dealt with some kind of conduct in the previous administration. and they re going to hit him with questions about hunter biden. so it will be a contentious hearing. this issue that we re discussing right now is going to probably take main stage. we will certainly be watching and covering not the speculation but the facts. katie benner, shannon mccaffrey, barb mcquade, ladies, i take you. you know my absolute favorite way to start this hour is with a group of brilliant women. and what you did that for us. when we come back, president biden making big moves to try to save americans money on prescription drugs. we are going to compare that with the republican front runner is up to. robert gibbs and matthew dowd are here, and later, we are following hurricane idalia as it takes aim at florida s gulf coast. the latest forecast says the storm is expecte
codefendants saying, not so fast, we are not demanding a speedy trial. in fact, we are prepared to waive our speedy trial rights, and we re going to need far more time to prepare. a chorus of voices singing some special song. sydney powell, one of trump s other campaign lawyers, has also filed for a speedy trial. today, she pleaded not guilty, waving an arraignment on september 6th. meanwhile, mark meadows request to move his case to federal court is now in the hands of a judge who is asking for more information before making any decision. a judge has asked fani willis s team for more details. both sides have until five pm thursday to respond. with that, let s get smarter with help of our leadoff panel tonight. my friend, katie benner is here, pulitzer prize-winning reporter for the new york times, shannon mccaffrey, editor of the atlanta journal-constitution s georgia grand jury coverage, and barb mcquade, a veteran federal prosecutor, and former
candidate. if you look at all those overt acts listed there, everyone is about the campaign, it s about activity in georgia, michigan, pennsylvania. all of that would fall outside the scope of that authority. but we ll see. he s going to look at this additional authority and he promises to rule promptly. shannon, what can you tell us about this judge? this judge has been on the bench, on the federal bench, for about 12 years. he s a university of georgia law school and undergrad graduate. and he has had some rulings that have been controversial on both sides. he initially found that the states six-week abortion ban was unconstitutional, struck down a georgia law. of course that changed once roe v. wade was overturned at the federal level. but if you remember stacey abrams, her political action, her fair fight action had filed a fairly lengthy lawsuit that
the drug the judge said he was going to rule it soon as possible but he also said i don t have a lot of equal legal precedent to work with here. there s not a lot to work with. we re probably going to be setting precedent here. he made a point of telling mark meadows that, if you haven t heard from me by september 6th, so up to fulton county court to get arraigned, because you may still need to end up in that court in a long run. so he s going to rule quickly but it s really a wide open area. but shannon, regardless of what meadows job title was at that time, do we know of any witness testimony that backs up this argument that he is trying to make that he was working to get trump to accept the election results? by our research, i don t recall anything that we have ever seen or heard in a concrete way, him trying to do that.
numbers, every time people go to trial we will be hearing the allegations against donald trump and we will be hearing the allegations these people worked in concert to overturn the election again and again. it s difficult to escape this in it sounds like we re going to be getting it from all sides for a prolonged time if these defendants aren t tried together. all right, shannon, new topic, mark meadows. he wants to get his case moved to federal court. that is his goal right. now his lawyer said that meadows was focused on, quote, landing the plane, basically trying to get trump to accept the 2020 results. but does he have any testimony that back that up? what he was essentially saying is that at that point they were trying to get trump to accept the fact that he had lost the election. and i think what this kind of comes down to is, it s up to the is that the job of the white house chief of staff or someone involved in the campaign? so much of their argument was about what are the