Threatening federal prosecutors. Today, the judge in that case could decide exactly how much he can talk about it. It comes as federal prosecutors are now pushing for a trial right after new years day. Cue up u2. Well have much more on trumps legal issues ahead. Good morning. Welcome to morning joe. It is i mean, come on, man, its august. Its august. This is moving. This year is moving too fast. Its midaugust. You know, you get old like me, and it just flies, right . Its august 11th. With us, we have the host of way too early, White House Bureau chief at politico, Jonathan Lemire. Host of politics nations, wearing tan today, the reverend al sharpton. Looks good. Come on, man. President obama wore tan, and look what happened. It was a big news story. With me, its just another day. Can you believe that . That was a big news story. The president of the United States wearing tan in the white house. We have a the same people that were upset by that are now, like, hey, its really cool. We su
the public s strong interest in a speedy trial, an interest guaranteed by the constitution. trump s lawyers, however, argued that it is the defendant guaranteed the right to a speedy trial. in this case, one would not benefit their client. they have until next thursday to propose their own start date, which is likely to be after the 2024 election. dave, i got a feeling, i got a feeling the judge is going to be a lot closer to the prosecutor s date than whatever date donald trump s legal team comes up with, because it is going to be so far removed from a rational date. yeah, i think this is the case that s going to go first. you don t have the complicated issues like the documents case. you have a judge in judge chutkan who wants to keep the ball rolling, so i think this is going first. this is still a complicated case, seven states, unindicted
than one grand jury. why would she expose another grand jury? it is interesting, joe. trump lawyer jim trustee was on a right-wing show and said that there is a problem with having the separate grand jury. this was the day before the ruling came out. it made some people think that, was that a message sent from trump s team to the judge? now, i m not going to accuse anyone of impropriety, but it is peculiar she decided to do that when no one asked for that to be briefed. she said, now, i want you to tell me whether you can have a second grand jury. but a second grand jury can be used to investigate other crimes and to indict other people. so i think this issue is really bizarre, and it makes me think that we re back to the judge cannon of 2022 instead of judge cannon 2.0. yeah. and you look, jonathan lemire, not to get off on this issue too long, but, i mean, if you go to the drudge report any day, you see the mistakes she s made.
you know, she s just not had much trial experience. but in this case, it seems all the mistakes are breaking trump s way, at least in the documents case, which, again, why we are saying this, this explains, in part, i think, why jack smith kept his indictment so tight of donald trump. because he s in a rocket docket, and that thing is actually going to move. yeah, any 50/50 ball in this case is going to trump from judge cancannon. she s been deferential to his team s arguments, and that does seem like jack smith is trying to move forward on a tight case here in the election interference. susan, it s not just that it is january 2nd, the day after new year s, which trump was fiated on in his truth social post, but it is two weeks out of the iowa caucus. have they set that, january 15th in. it is the republican date for the iowa caucus. it is less than two weeks out. this is the first example of how
then the judge would turn to the lawyer and say, and if you can t control your client, you better have him find another one, or you control him. if you can t control him, you ll be in jail with him. no judge, no federal judges put up with this type of behavior. that s the bizarre thing about this double standard stuff. i laugh. donald trump has had a double standard breaking his direction from the very beginning. judge chutkan knows that trump is running for president. and there was a speaking indictment out there which detailed his alleged actions. so the judge is going to give him a lot of ability to respond. but, at some point, you cross a line. i think he s crossed the line already, and he s been given a lot of reference. ultimately, i think thereby will a partial gag order imposed, but the question is, will it be enforced? if you and i did this stuff, we d have our leash pulled already. when you go to first appearance, you re limited to contacting the victims. you re told not