i don t know why a defense lawyer is going to start giving facts about a critical moment. it s the whole case. and by the way, it is such a damning thing when you put it in context. because remember, what the indictment alleges is prior to that the reason this had to be done with the vice president is because prior to that all the efforts that trump took with respect to the secretaries of state did not work. so, for him to say let s just double check, there s nothing to double check. he actually threatened criminal prosecution against the secretary of state of georgia and he still stuck to his guns. so this sort of, oh, let s just buy some time, it s illegal, and it s not like there s any real dispute. he knew the secretaries of state had said to him, no, there is no issue, these have been certified, there is no legal basis to do it. so i just don t know why john, who is a good lawyer, did not just zip it and not say anything. they don t teach tv in law
proposed trial date, and then there will be a hearing 25 days from now. august 28th, at which time judge chutkan will set a trial date. that is unusual. it s not surprising knowing the judge that judge chutkan s. i tried murder cases against with her when she was a public defender. i was a decision attorney in d.c. trying homicide cases. it wasn t surprising but it was unusual because ordinarily at these arraignment hearings, where the magistrate judge will do is say, let s all come back in about a month and we will bring our calendars and will begin to ruminate about possible job. it no. judge chutkan will be setting a trial date 25 days from now. i predict it s going to be a speedy trial. andrew weissmann, to the point that we learned from john
there is something, look, he has sort of found religion in the sense that yes, this is now all public, so he can t put his head in the sand. there s something remarkable about the former vice president to the united states and his staff telling us what happened in the oval office with the president of the united states saying. and clearly understood by the vice president that he should overthrow the votes of americans. the thing that is so disheartening about this is this should not be a political issue. you would think this would be an american issue when i was growing up there were all these republicans who were law and order republicans who would be completely appalled by this. to me it s like, there are a lot of good republicans. can you please run one of them?
on the crucial conversation in the indictment with the vice president. and, by the way, the vice presidents chief of staff is there as a witness to this, the vice president s counsel was there, as a witness to this. many witnesses to this conversation. and john lauro decide that would make an entry into that conversation right now, which are learning from andrew weissmann is admissible in this case, which is what i was wondering about as soon as i heard him say it. it makes no sense, lawrence. i mean, what i hear when you play that clip of john moreau saying, you know, donald trump just said let s go with option d, donald trump said let s go with criminal option d. what i appreciate about the way jacks mitt structure this indictment, with the six coconspirators, not named but largely identified in substance, five of them are lawyers. so ordinarily there is a
the pause that donald trump s criminal defense lawyer says donald trump was asking for was a crime and it was the very last crime that donald trump and his coconspirators asked vice president to commit. they asked him to commit the crime many times. but the very last time donald trump and his coconspirators asked mike pence to commit that crime was not before mike pence went to the capitol on january six to preside over electoral college vote count ceremony. it was at 11:44 pm on january 6th, after the trump mob attacked the capitol, attacked police officers, said they wanted to kill mike pence, so they wanted to kill nancy pelosi. after the was capitol under attack for hours on end with donald trump doing nothing to stop it, hours after the trump criminal mob was driven out of the capitol building and in the middle of a congress s continuation of the official process of counting the electoral votes, at 11:44 pm, john eastman put his latest