Atlanta, making final arguments for why judge gotten mcafee should disqualify Fulton CountyDa Fani Willis, whos overseeing his election, Racketeering Trial The Other in fort pierce, florida, pressing a federal judge, aileen cannon, to delay his classified documents trial until after the election. A busy day for Trump Lawyers and for prosecutors. Seen as paula reid starts us off in florida former President Donald Trump at Federal Court in florida. Today for a highstakes hearing to decide when he will be tried for allegedly mishandling classified documents an indictment was unsealed. Charging donald j. Trump with Felony Violations of our National Security laws, as well as participating in a conspiracy to obstruct justice trump faces 40 felony criminal charges related to the alleged mishandling of Classified Information. Some seen here in properly stored at maralago. They raided my house. They did it for publicity reasons. They did it for election interference reasons. They want to interfere with the election the case is currently scheduled for may 20, but judge aileen cannon, a trump appointee, who is overseeing the case, has signaled she may push the trial back in court today, cannon pressed prosecutors and Defense Attorneys about their suggested schedules. Special counsel jack smith proposed a july 8 start date, but during the proceedings, cannon suggested that aspects of smiths proposal were unrealistic. Trumps lawyers insist the trial should be pushed back a trial that takes place before the election is a mistake and should not happen trump attorney todd blanche status it saying it would be unfair to the former president and the American People for trump to be in the courtroom and not on the campaign trail. Thats something that former president has claimed as well. All of this persecution is only happening because i am running for president and leading very substantially in the polls. Trumps attorneys did concede if the trial has to go forward before the election, they would be okay with starting august 12. But prosecutors pushed back saying, if team trump believes the trial before the election is unfair those are fake dates. Why did they even propose those dates . Can and noted that trumps upcoming criminal case in new york must be considered as she schedules this one on march 25th, trumps Hush Money Trial begins in new york and is expected to last four to six weeks. And already busy court schedule. Former President Trump prosecutors today did clarify a key issue how close to the election would they be willing to try trump . Attorney general Merrick Garland has set a speedy trial, is in the Public Interest the cases were brought last year. Prosecutor has urged speedy trials with which i agree. And this now on hand the traditional system, not in our hands today in court though, prosecutors said that a Justice Department policy discouraging public investigative actions. 60 days before an election. Does not apply to cases where charges had already been filed. Prosecutor jay bratt told the court that when it comes to that policy, quote, we are for in full compliance. And paula reid joins us now from the courthouse is it clear if and when judge cannon will set a new trial date so its not clear. When were going to get her decision, anderson, but shes signaled today, but she does intend to move this case back, but you described in july date is being quote, unreasonable. So i would expect that she will move this on the calendar to august the earliest but i would also expect if she does that, the Trump Lawyers will likely come back between now and then and try to push it back even further. That is the game they have been playing, tried to push this back back until after the election even if you have to do it in little pieces. All reid stay with us, want to bring in retired federal judge, nancy gertner, currently a senior law lecturer at harvard, also federal prosecutor and bestselling Supreme Court biographer Jeffrey Toobin i mean, its judge cannon. Is fully in the trump camp. I mean, you know, shes been criticized even by the conservative 11th Circuit Court for bending over backwards too much for trump. But shes dealing now with a profound question and i dont think it is a simple question, which is is donald trump, a defendant like any other defendant who has a schedule based on the convenience of the court. And, you know, all full speed ahead or is the courts supposed to take into consideration this man is running for president. She is indicated she would not take into consideration his campaign schedule. He wouldnt take him his campaign schedule, but that doesnt really answer the question of when you get into the fall, is it appropriate to have one of the two major candidates for president sitting in a courtroom in september, in october, anyone who pretends thats an easy question, i think is blowing smoke. I think its actually a difficult question. Jim carter, the former president s attorneys, arguing that the case shouldnt move forward because before the election, theyve also floated in august 12th, start date why do you think they floated that august 12th start date . They want to make sure that the florida case jumps ahead of the line of the january 6 case. If the january 6 cases ever restarted because they are there for much more comfortable in florida where the jury pool is much more favorable to the former president. Then in dc so i mean, i agree with jeff about the whatll it feel like in september, but i mean, one of the things that is the case here as that this was the play in other words, trumps lawyers have delayed everything, everything that should have been a routine motion turned into a big brouhaha. And unfortunately, the judge has enabled it to be a brouhaha. So were in the situation now. Really because of choices that trumps lawyers made and choices that she really they ratified. So thats the problem. And the one judge who has been pushing this case is judge chutkan and washington, but shes now shut down because the Supreme Court has put everything on hold. And judge cannon has been proceeding at a leisurely pace at best and yes, they were talking about august, but you can be sure, as paula said earlier, that the trump people will continue pushing that date back as much as polar right now. I mean, the only one of the former president s criminal cases with a trial date is the new york hush money case, which did da on that case is now trying to make it a election interference case. What are the odds that the rest all end up delayed until after the election . I mean, that seems increasingly likely it does seem increasingly likely. Lets go through the three other outstanding criminal cases. First, lets deal with georgia, these efforts to disqualify fani willis in that case have likely pushed this back until after november. She had initially said she wanted to start that trial in august expected to last over four months so at this point, its safe to say that case is unlikely to be resolved before the president ial election. As i said before, the classified documents case, i do expect the judge will push it back and well certainly be asked to push it back again, whether she does that. There are some legitimate questions. There are some legitimate issues here in terms of the breadth and depth of discovery. The issues does it play that would give her the opportunity to also push this back until after november. So the big question is, what happens with that january 6 case that is now of course, in the hands of the support cream court, not only for what they decide on the merits, live even sources and the trump camp say they dont expect to win on the merits, but also for how long it takes them to decide. We widely expect we wont get it decision there until late june and then use their space on the calendar judge, Tanya Chutkan has been bullish about bringing that case to trial. The Justice Department today open the possibility of that they would be willing to try him even in september or october when judge chutkan be open to that or this lets go back to the Supreme Court. Judge gertner, i mean, there are legitimate questions about the classified material at the heart of this case. That is a complicating factor in the florida case. It is a complicating factor, but one of the things that is clear usually a new judge facing a classified documents case usually seeds to the prosecution. I dont think that thats necessarily a good thing, but, uh, but thats what happens, will usually defer to the prosecutions view of what should be classified after all what judges schooled and National Security issues. The irony of this case is that this is a judge whos doing just the opposite, whose tilting to the defense rather than tilting to the prosecution. They were complicated issues. But this is in one sense the easiest of all the cases. So these are case, these these are issues that could have been resolved, but shes really inviting briefing and hearings on things that frankly, i dont think any other judge would have done. Theres a law called the Classified Information procedures act, sipa, which dictates how Classified Information can be used in criminal trials. There have to be pretrial proceedings if judge cannon wanted to move this case along, she could have gotten going on the secret proceedings already. She hasnt. And there are lots of motion stacking up that will give the defense, but delay one of the prosecutors and the special counsels office to argue that this doj policy, which is discourages of investigation 60 before an election doesnt apply by here. Well, technically it doesnt apply because it applies to investigative steps indictments, search warrants. It doesnt speak of trials because judges decide on the scheduling of trials. But the spirit of that policy is on is at issue, and the judges are going to have to struggle with that if proven. Thank you. Paula reid, nancy gertner, as well we have an the georgia case and closing arguments, not in the trial itself, but remarkable Court Proceedings about whether the District Attorney, fani willis, should still be on the case. 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And this is cnn the fate of georgias rico case against the former president and others is now in the judges hands after a pretrial proceedings which lasted longer than some trials do judge scott mcafee now must decide whether Fulton CountyDistrict Attorney fani willis is former relationship with the prosecutor, nathan wade, and their testimony about it disqualifies her from the case more now, from cnns Jessica Schneider these people, your honor, is a systematic misconduct and they need to go sparks continued to fly today as lawyers for donald trump and others charged in the case, are you that Da Fani Willis hired nathan wade, a Special Prosecutor when they were romantically involved, and then she benefited financially from the trips they took and the dinners they shared she put her boyfriend in the spot, paid him, and then reap the benefits from it that she created the system and then didnt tell anybody about it. Willis testified last month insisting the relationship began after wade was appointed to lead the trump case and argued she paid him back for any expenses in cash when i started dating mr. Wade, april 2020 2022, around i dont know, growing up, my daddy had three safes are now though my fathers bought me a lockbox and i always keep cash in the house. When youve on a date, should have cash in your pocket judge scott mcafee did have some tough questions for the attorneys pushing to remove willis and her team. If someone buys their boss a stick of gum, is that per say, disqualify . It may not meet had materiality requirement, but its a personal benefits to the judge. Also asked if disqualification would really be the right remedy or if any wrongdoing would just require hi a reprimand from the legal bar. The proposition youre putting forward now is that if a representative, the state lead prosecutor, the District Attorney, themselves so something thats untruthful on the record, that is something that immediately as to be proactively policed by the trial court. Basically, what im getting at is wearing the law that we find the remedy to an untruthful statement generally we send you down the street to, the bar. Lawyers for the District Attorneys office insists there is absolutely no Conflict Of Interest. Its absurd. We have absolutely no evidence that ms willis received any financial gain or benefit. The testimony was that ms willis paid all of the money back in cash. You can judge mcafee says he will make a decision about disqualification within two weeks Jessica Schneider, cnn, washington perspective now from cnn legal analyst joey jackson and atlanta former Georgia State senator jen jordan so joe, i mean, in these closing arguments, just kind of a shift from trying to prove a Conflict Of Interest to a perceived conflict yeah, it wasnt only that, but i was surprised at the way the bar really was extended by the defense. It was about well, is it an actual column . Affleck to your point . Is it a perceived conflict . Is it about her Church Speech as they menti