because they want to take president trump to trial in a few months. they want to deny him his sixth amendment rights to council, to give me in my co-counsel up an opportunity to prepare. they want to deny president trump s due process rights, to look at documents, to get witnesses, to use our subpoena power. he s essentially arguing against the government that s asking for a speedy trial. but there is no proof or evidence that the prosecutors are not giving him anything is there? nothing is happening. so how is he gonna do that? he s going to get discover, he s going to have time to review the discovery, he s gonna have time to make his motions. he is trying to argue his case in the court of public opinion. it s just nonsense. everything that he said there has no basis in fact for anything that happened today at this core proceeding. but in some bizarre row
and his claims, his continued claims of election fraud, which are, you know, not based in any fact, if you got these candidates, opponents, who won t come out, and say that he did not win the election, how are they supposed to beat him when they won t tell they won t disabuse voters of the notion that donald trump won, how can they continue to say, you know, that this is a culture of losing, for example, run desantis whole message? and when you re talking about the electoral process that they are currently going through. carol, the next hearing in this case is august 28th. that s when judge tanya chutkan is hoping to set a trial schedule. the special counsel has been up-front. they want to have a speedy trial. trump s team, not so much. here s his defense lawyer last night on fox. they want to deny him his sixth amendment rights to
those magic words, mr. trump, you are free to go. she will let the jury decide this case. but if they convict, the judge is likely based on her previous sentencing practices in january 6th cases to send this man to prison for quite a long time. and, joyce, meanwhile, there is already kind of a schedule fight brewing over this case. here is one of trump s attorneys last night. listen to this. they want to deny him his sixth amendment rights to counsel. to give me and my co-counsel an opportunity to prepare, they want to deny president trump haze due process rights to look at documents, to get witnesses, to use our subpoena power. a lot to do with the schedule according to trump s defense team. what is your reaction to this? what does a judge weigh when shaping the timeline of the case like this? so those comments are ridiculous because as the
they want it to happen before the election. what does that tell you don t? it tells me everything, laura, about what s going on about the attack on our constitution. i have talked a lot about how this is criminalized first amendment speech because president trump, like all of us, has a right to redress grievances, has a right to protest an election that he felt was unfair, has a right to campaign on a position. and they have attacked that right not just for president trump but for everyone. but now, today in court, which was a very terribly sad day, they are attacking other parts of the constitution because they want to take president trump to trial in a few months. they want to deny him his sixth amendment rights to counsel, to give me and my co-counsel, todd blanche, an opportunity to prepare. they want to deny president trump his due process rights to look at documents, to get
does have the right to lie, but he doesn t have the right on to pressure the government to overturn american votes and that s where this becomes a problem and the fact that he tried with other people and other people helped him with this push, with this attempt to overthrow the government, that s where the conspiracy comes in. if there ever was a reason to have the rule of law, to have people held accountable for crimes, this is it. this is going to be the true test of american democracy, whether or not this can be meted out. what has the impact of all of this been on the ground in arizona in term of the faith of the voters there? well, i think overall voters can have faith that systems are systems and they operate at lightning speed, but our process guaranteed by the constitution is guaranteed and let s not forget the defendant still has fourth, fifth, sixth amendment