from jack smith. the high court says it will fast track consideration of trump s claim that he s immune from prosecution in his election case. plus rudy giuliani in court today. the jury is set to decide how much he ll pay for defamatory lies that threaten the lies of two election workers, lies he is still pushing outside the courtroom. also the pregnant woman at the center of a flash point in america right now, has just left her home state to get an abortion, as the texas supreme court has just ruled against her. we ll have the latest. i m kaitlan collins, and this is the source. tonight, we have exclusive reporting in the trump classified documents case. a phone call that apparently is of interest to special counsel jack smith from the former president to a former longtime employee in mar-a-lago, who was there for key conversations surrounding that case. more on that important reporting in a moment. but also we have major news about the nation s highest court on j
fight, they can t, and they don t want to fight. that s a bit of what we are seeing here. yes and the tampa bravado. all right, too neal, it s not a secret that today we got news that trump received a target letter from the doj. do you think that that factors in at all to the judge s deliberation about the timing of her own federal trial? i don t. i think that there are two separate things, obviously, if there is an indictment, as i suspected, or almost certainly will be against donald trump in washington, d.c. for january 6th, judge cannon is gonna have to work it out with that other judge for trial schedules because you have an absolute right to be present as a criminal defendant in your own trial. and so, you ll have to be both of them. but basically, alex, i think this whole kind of trump delay tactic is bordering on absurd. i mean, donald trump is absolutely picking up on something ari said, entitled to a presumption of innocence and
for january 6th, judge cannon is going to have to work it out with that other judge for trial schedules because you have an absolute right to be present as a criminal defendant in your own trial, and so he ll have to be with both of them. i think this whole kind of trump delay tactic is bordering on absurd. i mean donald trump is absolutely to pick up on something ari said, entitled to the presumption of innocence and all the other rights a criminal defendant has beyond a reasonable doubt, unanimous jury has to convict him. if one juror says he s innocence, he can t go to jail, all of that he gets. you don t get some special right because you were the former president or running for office. and certainly nobody gets a 1 1/2 year trial delay. i mean give me a break. and trump s rationale which is the mar-a-lago case is so complicated that he can t be tried for a year and a half is just bizarre because it s like
criminal defendant in your own trial. and so, he ll have to be both of them. but basically, alex, i think this whole kind of trump delay tactic is bordering on absurd. i mean, donald trump is absolutely, picking up on something ari said, entitled to a presumption of innocence and all the other rights the criminal defendants have beyond reasonable doubt, a unanimous jury has to convict him. if one juror says he is innocent, he can t go to jail, all of that he gets. you don t get some special right because you were the former president or because you are running for office. and you certainly, like, nobody gets a one and a half year trial delay. i mean, give me a break. and trump s rationale, which is that the mar-a-lago case is so complicated that he can t be tried for a year and a half is just bizarre because it s like all of a sudden, magically, the complications seemed to dissolve right around november of 2024
favor of what was a trump delay tactic was appointing a special master to review the mar-a-lago documents. she was rebuked. her decision was overturned. and i wonder if that could affect how she s going to proceed looking at the timetable for the rest of this. if she s like other judges, i think it does have an effect, right, to have the 11th circuit, which is a conservative circuit rebuke her really strongly, republican-appointed judges said she was wrong on every aspect of that. so you can expect that everybody is going to be watching everything that she says tomorrow very closely, including obviously the trump team. they want as we just discussed they want this trial to be put off as long as possible. they say that they want the essentially the voters to decide and then of course if donald trump becomes president, he could try to have this thing wiped away. we ll see whether she sides with them in trying to delay this or weather she finally says, no, here s a trial date, you