crafting a deal to allow cooperation across all cases or could be that he s really not cooperate ing, although now tha he s been criminally charged, you have to think that possibility will be moving up the ranks in terms of his thought process. it s fascinating to try to feel pooel apart the layers of this indictment. i lastly want to ask about fani willis and her experience with rico. back in 2022 just last year, she brought a case against a rapper and otseveral others. what does that tell you about the timing of this case and how quickly or slowly it might be able to come to trial? so fani willis has a lot of experience with rico, so she knows what she s doing in this regard, but going back to the claim she s going to try this case in six months, the young thug case is still in jury selection. months and months just in sjury selection. picking a jury for the former president and the other high-ranking former officials and lawyers and so on is going to be even more complicated tha
picking a jury for the young thug case. that underscores that six months is an unrealistic goal. there s a lot of people, there s a lot of lawyers that will be involved and a lot of lawyers that are charged. we ll all be watching this case. it s incredible to see how unprecedented this is. jennifer rodgers, thank you for coming on. coming up, cnn has learned hunter biden s top attorney has asked to withdraw from his client s case. why? we have that next. with 20 grams of protein for muscle health versus 16 grams in ensusure® high protein. boosost® high protein. now available e in cinnabon® bakery-inspired flavor. learn more at boost.com/tv
they are consuming all this information. every single day one of them says, which indictment is this? which jurisdiction is that? which case is this? and these are people i would consider to be news consumers. now apply that to the average nonveracious news cob sconsumer or the casual voter who only shows up when donald trump issen the ballot who trusts nothing that they hear from the news or any institution. of course, this becomes white noise. i think in a lot of people s minds, it s all just part of the same trap. they laid a trap for trump. until somebody convinces me otherwise, i will not see it any differently. i think the white noise factor is a real thing. you think cameras in a courtroom in georgia could change any of this? i think it helps because at least people watching the same show. people are watching the same stuff. there were cameras for o.j. simpson and people had very different opinions about what
into that, because i m a witness, which is awful. it s true. but i will say that when you look at the michigan case, donald trump was not charged. you know, they charged the so-called fake electors there. and so maybe there is a parallel that will happen here. i think the distinction, though, is that there is a phone call to the secretary of state s office. and so the quality and quantity of the evidence here is a little different. have you ever, as a journalist, have been called as a witness in any case, in any case? never, never ever. under normal circumstances, i would never show up and testify in front of a grand jury. about the relationship between a journalist and power needs to be adversarial. i am not an agent of the government. if you want to know what i know, read what i am writing. the circumstances here are a little different because of the nature of what i m being asked
thing that caught my attention was even before the hearing started, i saw evan corcoran walk in. i don t know if there s been much talk about that, but evan corcoran is donald trump s lawyer who was compelled to testify about and in a very real sense, against donald trump because he was the one who infamously certified that all documents had been returned from mar-a-lago to the federal government and that was untrue, of course, the crime fraud exception trumped, no pun intended, the attorney/client privilege, and he was forced to testify, undoubtedly incriminating his former client in that case. donald trump, i was surprised to see him show up. i don t know if there s a saying, keep your friends close and your former lawyers who have testified against you in the grand jury closer. but whereas he recused himself, he conflicted himself off of the mar-a-lago documents case, he