His team expected to hear charges, enter a plea during the initial appearance. The former president is calling for the case to be moved out of washington. He claims it is impossible to get a fair trial in d. C. Fox Team Coverage with Alexis Mcadams on trumps legal strategy. First, go to Griff Jenkins outside the Federal District court In Washington. Griff, what are you expecting out of todays proceedings . Here we go, jillian, mike. We expect things to get more interesting here. We expect the former president to make his way to District Court here in d. C. Once he gets here at 4 00 p. M. To go inside for that, lets talk a little about whats going to happen. He is going to go before a Magistrate Judge, not the judge that will preside over his trial, a Magistrate Judge for the initial appearance and fox news confirms, being told by the court, this will be an arraignment. We expect the former president to plead not guilty to the four charges, but already as you mention in that intro, he i
Midnight 150,000 autoworkers could walk off the job and hit the picket lines if they dont have a deal but the workers and automakers are still far apart and the gap could cause the u. S. Economy billions of dollars. Hope you didnt save the date, the judge at the center of the Georgia Election subversion case says that Donald Trumps trial will not begin next month. Its a set back for the Da Fani Willis and a win for the trumps legal team thats trying to delay, delay, delay. Move the fing motion, the response from Kevin Mccarthy as he plans the next steps in the biden Impeachment Inquiry. Those stories and more coming right here into cnn news central. No deal yet and not a lot of time left. Were hours away from a potential United Auto Workers strike that could cripple the industry and cause pain to the economy. A 10 day strike could cost the economy 5. 6 billion and send the state of michigan into a recession and drive up inflation. So what does the union want, mainly the restoration of
primary state. what about that argument and when do you expect that to play out? well, jack smith is asking for a speedy trial in both cases, that s usually something the defense wants, a constitutional right that belongs to the defendant. almost all criminal cases, defendants waive speedy trial requirement because they need time to prepare. it s going to be very challenging to get this done by the election. you have a may date in florida. they just filed a superseding indictment in that case, and the trump team can go back and say look, you can t file essentially a superseding, new indictment with a new party, new counts, and then stick with the original date. so even that date might not be met before the election. there is one interesting thing here, however. as defense counsel, i would be tempted to give smith part of what he s asking for. he wants to move quickly