that s a lot. yeah, i think one of the things we saw with fani willis was, remember back in january we had a recommendation from a special grand jury to go forward with indictments, and then she waited several months before she actually filed that indictment. i think she recognized this was a possibility, and she wanted to have all her ducks in a row before she filed at indictment. so by waiting until august to file it, my guess is she had all the discovery ready, her witness list, her trial prep, ready to go. she ll be ready to go in october. the truth is, a prosecutor usually is ready to go when they file the indictment because they bolivian with the case for a couple of years, as she has. the defense is seeing the case for the first time. it wouldn t surprise me if some of these other defendants would want to sever the case and ask for more time to get ready for trial because they can t be ready by october. like 2026 are probably a nonstarter, but requesting date
that. the is being quite strict with defendant trump and his team. while those concerns might be generally real, and they re afforded a certain set of free speech rights in america, that s not a license to say anything any time, which is to say in trial, it s not a defense of fears, it s that you re allowed to talk. in pretrial, meaning in the ramp-up to this trial, it s not something that means trump can violate protective order rules or evidence rules or take sensitive information he only got because jack smith s team provided it for trial prep like grand jury interviews that are secret to go blabbing about it in public, he doesn t have that right as a defendant. he doesn t. as for the real-world concern these things should be handled in court and not in public, there is a strange overlap. jack smith, back to when he talked a little bit in the earlier days of his career, has
attorneys will. and it s important to say that because he is saying that i can t be in the courtroom. that is false. you are getting another new filing from trump s team right now. can you tell me what that is? yeah, just minutes ago we ve got this two-page motion where trump s legal team, they re explaining they re expecting to be extensive trial prep that will be needed for this case. and because of that extensive preparation, they re making this motion to push back any start of a trial beyond the 70-day window that s laid out in the speedy trial act. so they re saying, look, this case is going to require interviewing hundreds of witnesses. they want to retain expert witnesses. they say they re going to have to review terabytes of information. so, erin, with this filing tonight they re once again signaling that they re going to try to do all they can to delay any quick trial on this. they re saying they need to delay it because of the unprecedented nature of this
turn maria over in terms of making herself available we will make fox cover the afees and costs that come from doing it at the last minute. do you delay going to trial next week after all of this trial prep, or do you bite the bullet and move forward it s a critical problem as well for fox s lawyers. the judge saying that, omission is a lie he has a problem with the lawyers for fox. not only is there a trial readiness consideration on dominion s side. if you are fox news, you are looking at the fact that you have lawyers representing you going into a jury trial when a judge doesn t believe they are credible on both sides, they have a lot to consider. maybe it includes a settlement the only reason this tape was revealed is because one of the witnesses who was previously a fox witness is now suing fox she s a dominion now
calculation for him? i m so, this looks like trial prep to me. i think that i inexperienced public prosecution i like jack smith would only do this for an extremely compelling reason. two things, sam. i think prosecutors want to lock in pence s testimony if charges are brought against former president trump, and jack smith also wants to know what went down in those one-on-one conversations between trump and pence. the january 6th committee heard from pence s top aide, but of course, pence himself refused to talk to that committee. he will probably be forced to talk to the grand jury, when prosecutors learned that there is anything that they don t yet know. so, paul, john and i were talking about the issue of executive privilege. because it is almost a certainty that trump s team