several grounds such as prosecutorial misconduct and selective prosecution and as well as how much time has passed since the alleged crimes. we re looking at statute of limitations and a whole host of motions that are going to be levied here, and this case won t see a jury in my opinion. and turning himself in historic criminal charges, 34 felony counts brought forth by manhattan district attorney bragg, accusing him of hush money payments to stormy daniels and mcdougall. daniels says if the case goes to trial, she wants to testify. i think having them call me in and put me on the stand let legitimizes my story and and oh, she must not be a good witness, she s not credible. as for republicans, it s the credibility of prosecution that s in question. yesterday, house judiciary chairman jim jordan wrote a letter to the d.a. s office for new york county requesting documents and testimony relevant to their investigation into bragg s case. quote, if state or local prosecu
american history, literally. today was the very first televised hearing in that georgia case against donald trump and 18 of his allies. district attorney fani willis and her team revealed three big things about the election interference charges. first, they want to charge and try all 19 codefendants together. secondly, this trial could last for months. and thirdly, they will call more than 150 different witnesses. that means that the former president of the united states could spend a third of the next year sitting in a courtroom. in just one of his cases, while running for a second term. it is just extraordinary. and we are getting a preview of the tensions to come. two of those codefendants, trump s legal advisor sydney powell, and the so-called architect of the coup plot, kenneth chesebro, they want their trials to be separated, even though, through their lawyers, they, today, started pointing the finger at each other, essentially over who is less crazy. she was fired be
thank you so much for joining us. cnn prime time starts right now. hi, abby! hey, thank you so much. have a good night. good evening, everyone. it is shaping up to be one of the biggest criminal trials in american history. literally. today was the very first televised hearing in that georgia case against donald trump and 18 of his allies. district foreigner fani willis and her team revealed three big things. first, they want to charge and try all 19 co-defendants together. second, this trial could last four months. and third, they ll call more than 150 different witnesses. that means that the former president of the united states could spend a third of the next year sitting in a courtroom. in just one of his cases, while running for a second term. it is just extraordinary. and we are getting a preview of the tensions to come. two of those co-defendants, trump s legal adviser, sidney powell, and the so called architect, they want their cases to be separated. today they sta
rebuke, proving to be a speaker who brings dishonor on the house. he condemned donald trump after january 6th and his actions and words deserve condemnation as well because he knows he s being dishonest to the american people. and that condemnation should go to elise stefanik as well. and i think a danger kevin mccarthy has suggested he s willing to embark upon is this. the house republicans as a majority party has several tools to their disposal. as garret said, they have the messaging, the power of messaging, elise stefanik in particular. but we see among house republicans the willingness to use these weaponization argument louder and more consistently than any other republican actor, certainly republican senators. you can also see they re using their tool of oversight thert to wrongly bring in department of justice investigators and investigate the investigators and create false narratives around this investigation suggesting it is a democratic
strategist for president barack obama said this, quote, democrats need to go on offense to push back against trump s messaging before he discredits the investigation and distracts the public. quote, imagine during watergate being like what people dislike about nixon is his handling of the economy. economic mismanagement is not why nixon resigned. we re back with david, the rev, and basil. david jolly, what do you think? i m not sure i fully agree with that. look, i think there s two actors here on the democratic side. first there s joe biden. joe biden cannot say a single thing. his likely opponent has been indicted. for democrats i think, sure, play offense, the message is important. don t play on the republican field but on this weaponization argument for democrats say we support the presidential records act as it s written, the espionage act as it s written