playing in all of this right now? he s been pretty sidelined and quiet in this critical period. we don t know exactly what role he s playing. he certainly not an act of communication with a lot of the trump team, from what i understand. so, it s a big mystery to a lot of other defense attorneys who are representing other people who have now been sunk into this ongoing grand jury probe. ryan, i also want to ask you about the classified documents case. judge aileen cannon ruled that trial will start on may 20th, 2024. that s months after the doj s requested december trial date. what s the latest on this? are you hearing anything from your sources about whether this may date could be pushed back again? yeah, i mean, i was talking to someone last night, who does not think that s going to hold. when these things are initially scheduled, years after build in some flexibility. it just seems like, if any tripwire comes up, they could have a reason to delay it with the discovery issues, wit
so the head of the democratic party in florida, nikki freed, she has said that she told a number of outlets doing interviews or the last couple of days that instead of using resources to organize folks and get the campaigns, they re using resources to just put people on the voter rolls in the numbers are important, last year, right? at the end of the year there were about 438,000 folks on the voter roll who had early mail-in ballots. at the end of july, the beginning of this july it was about 92,000. right? so there is some, there is a gap there, there s a lot of work to be done and we will see if the democratic party in georgia can make it up? staying in florida, simon, i want to ask you about the controversy over guidelines in the state, they suggest that teaching that slaves received some. benefits from slavery is their new social studies history curriculum,. and vice president kamala harris flew to the state to react. here is part of that. re is part of that
case classified documents case. also his attorney on the manhattan d.a. s case. so we could legitimately say, look, judge, i m gonna be in trial the end of march, it s gonna be a minimum of two weeks of jury selection. that is gonna push it all the way to may. i am not capable of being able to prepare for that may 20th trial. so what i think will happen, which happens on defendants who are not high-profile, is that one of those cases, the manhattan d.a. s case, will stand down. meaning the more serious case, he may 20th case, it will take priority. that happens often, when i was a prosecutor i was on the side of i had the most serious case. so a defendant to loosen another jurisdiction or another, office my case went first and i ve been on the other side of that, i had a least serious case, so the other cases weren t, so that is really the conflict. the conflict is that there is no judge that s gonna let him out of a trial so you can go campaign or he can go make a
when it comes to the georgia probe, trump s attorneys have made another last-ditch effort to block that investigation. but we know georgia d a fani willis is asked, judges not just to schedule charles in the first half of august. what is the significance of that? that, was she gave everyone a heads up in the spring that i am peddling a grand jury at the end of july. the first week of august. if everything goes well, mr. trump, et cetera, will be indicted. and she gave a heads up to the fbi that to work with local law enforcement, to make sure that everyone is on point for security. she requested that chief judge told the judges not to have any charles going on at that time. she even said that her own staff, 70% of them will not be in the courthouse, they will be working remotely, only herself, her executives, and the people working in investigation. so what that is saying, despite, you know, the hail mary classes that mr. trump s lawyers keep doing. that she anticipates that there
assistant district attorney and msnbc legal analyst catherine christian, so catherine, what will these potential conflicts mean for the various legal teams? if anything? well the conflicts that i actually do not think that the may 20th date we pushed further, it seems that the schedule that judge cannon put together is very tight. so mr. trump faces a trial in new york in october, a civil trial, he doesn t have to be that one. there is another civil, travel civil trial in october is a civil fraud case at the state agency is bringing against him. the civil trial in january is the defamation case that jean carroll is bringing, he doesn t have to be at that one, he wasn t that the one that he lost in a row. he does have to be at the criminal trial, so there is one in, may i mean, there is one in march, the manhattan d.a. s case. and then there is the may 20th one. what you really look for the attorneys, are the same attorneys gonna be able to be on the case? so todd blanche, who is one