experts. want to discuss the historic angles of this georgia case as well. and norm eisen, let me start with you. how significant is this announcement from fan i willis that she s prepared to hand over discovery by mid-september? it shows that there is a reason she s taken two and a half years to prepare this case. she knows full well that she could get hit whith a speedy trial demand and she s ready to go. she said send me a two terabyte, that is not a small drive, a two terabyte drive and i ll start giving you discovery. so she s used to this. she s prepared. it means, i think, we re going to have at least one and now sidney powell is getting in with ken cheesebro, so likely two of the lawyers who will be tried as soon as october 23rd. former federal prosecutor
the russians are saying that dna testing is going on to confirm whether or not the ten names on fly manifest including that of wagner boss yevgeny prigozhin, whether they were people on the plane. at the same time we have for the first time heard from the kremlin spoke from peskov, he was on a conference call and he ripped into the speculation that possibly or maybe the kremlin height have been ind had the calling of the downed craft and called that a lie and accused western media to do that. one of nuances of the conference call was he asked whether vladimir putin might attend the funeral of yevgeny prigozhin and he said that timing for that are so unclear at this point in time that he simply couldn t comment on it. however, what we re seeing now, inside of russia and among vladimir putin allies is more people commenting on this case. in fact alexander lukashenko, he came out now and said he
proceed. all have to be arraigned. we know the district attorney s office has asked for the arraignments to take place of the week of september 5th. judge has not weighed in on a timeline for this. this is also something that in georgia can happen repoetly. either on zoom or able to waive arraignments if the judge allows it. so we re waiting to see if this is a situation where donald trump could be appearing in a courtroom in the next couple of weeks. or if essentially he and the other defendants are able to waive these initial steps. now, we re also learning from a flu filing from the district attorney that she s ready to get the ball rolling on sharing discovery. she s said that the defendants in this case should supply the district attorney s office with a large usb drive and by mid-september she s willing to hand over the first batch of the discovery materials. the other fight that is playing out is whether this case and the defendants in this case are going to be showing up in the
this in georgia, he wanted a speedy trial and the judge said okay, we could get the ball rolling. we could move ahead in october 2023. one of the things that the judge said in this order, though, is at this time, these deadlines do not apply to any co-defendant. making clear that he s going to set this trial date, but for ken cheesebro only. now within the last hour or two, we also saw sidney powell, another one of the attorneys who was working with donald trump in the aftermath of the election, again, going to court and say she also would like a speedy trial. so we re waiting for the judge to weigh in on that the timeline for her. this calls into question what the timeline is going to be for all of the rest of the defendants in this case. the d.a. said we re ready to go. we could bring everyone to trial in october of 2023. a time line other attorneys have thought was unrealistic and we ve seen trump s team say they don t think that is realistic and they don t want to go with that date
how long could this defendant actually remain in custody? yeah, this is harrison floyd. again he s one of the lesser known co-defendants in this case. he s been accused of being a harassment campaign against the election workers. he s the only one of the 19 defendants who did not prenegotiate some kind of bond with the district attorney s office. he showed up at jail and he turned himself in and he was detained there and he appeared before the judge today that shed he would not release on bail. he has to appear before the judge assigned to oversee this case. now in this hearing harrison floyd made the argument he could not afford an attorney and they said that you don t neat the requirements needed for a public defender. so he could still be sitting in there through the weekend while we wait for the judge who has been assigned to this case in georgia to weigh in on his bond conditions and whether he could be released. i want you to stay with us. i want to continue this conversation