but i m gonna give you a little courtesy. if you show up in the next two weeks, i won t execute them. you can come in turn yourself in. that was such a smart move, and i ll tell you what, we don t do it in federal court. colin say, would it be convenient for you to bring your client in? sometimes the next few days? and let the clients call the shots. this was a shrewd move i think because she correctly anticipated that trump or some of these other defendants were trying to jerk around and slow things down just as we saw mark meadows do and jeffrey clark to. and the judge wouldn t have any of it. it may be that we see this tougher stance in state court and we have seen in federal court. yeah, it s hard to imagine fani willis is gonna let trump slide on stuff. but that does beg the question, what s the punishment? having said that, chris, what we re seeing here is ellis prosecutor who has or ducks in a row by all outside accounts. she s ready for whatever comes, whether that s a spee
codefendants. so amy lee copeland raises the very important point of who s donald trump going to point the finger at? well, he s basically said publicly i m going to point the finger at every single lawyer who s a codefendant in this case. i m going to say they told me i could do it. i think that s right. and chesebro and the others realize that s the point, so i agree with gwen and others. defendants often want to sever cases, and they want to be able to say it s the people who aren t here who did it. it s not necessarily easy, and i think this speedy trial motion really can be thought of as sort of de facto way to sever his case. what he really got, yes, he s got to roll the dice because she may say, okay, we ll see you october 23rd. but he gets to be on his own, he gets to be first, he gets to tell his storych and his story he s sort of in the background
safety for him and other folks involved. he was in and out in what 20 minutes? so i think that is a testament to our county being on high alert, our representatives being prepared and communicating with each other, and trying to tamp down tamper down this circus atmosphere and really just conduct the business of engaging in a criminal prosecution and treating this president as best we can like we would any other defendant being brought before the court. with your experience, representative miller, as a former district attorney in fulton county, when you saw defendant chesebro file his speedy trial motion i think yesterday it s all happening so fast i imagine you anticipated what district attorney willis response would be. was her response what you anticipated? absolutely, lawrence. look, when i was a prosecutor in fulton county alongside madam
to go yet. and for the defendant to prevail on a speedy trial is pretty easy because you have right to have the speedy trial. so i think their gamble is to call the government s bluff, to see, okay, you say you re ready to go. let s go really fast and hopefully that will cause some disorganization. but ironically, the speedy trial motion may cause more delay in the case. because as kaitlan was talking about, it splits the interest of the defendants and you may start seeing more movement to receiver it and all of that starts to eat up time. andrew mccabe, your the former deputy director of the fbi. do you think it was truly necessary for georgia authorities to take a mug shot of the former president trump? i think that the georgia authorities are trying to make a point that they are handling this case in the normal way they do with every criminal defendant in fulton county in as much as that is possible. because he is a former president of the united states and the fact that he has
issues. and we will see him do that. we will hold the hearing that needs to be held on monday, and make a decision to act on both sides and present whatever choose to offer. and really quickly, gwen, if the judge decides to move this to federal court, that means he moves all of the indictments the federal court. is that right? that is my understanding. wow. now, there may be various motions to sever, or other things. i know one defendant filed a speedy trial demand in fulton county. and so that, obviously, will have an impact on whether all 19 will be tried within those speedy trial guidelines, or whether there will be other severances or breaking the case down into bite sized pieces. so, many of us who track georgia law are debating about this behind the scenes, and we are waiting to see what comes out of the hearing on monday as well as the speedy trial motion. i am sure that georgia legal