Strategically. i think it is in her interest to put the pressure on all the defendants. it s in her interest to have this case tried before the election and really before the campaign gets in full swing. i think she s probably trying to keep pressure, probably hoping that one or more of the defendants will decide to cooperate with her, with her case, with her prosecution. and the more pressure that s on folks, the more likely that is to happen. we showed in our introduction some of the very recent statements by individuals, which may not go as far as the cooperating agreement or they may still be trying to avail themselves of defenses but seemed to go farther than many have gone in the public record say months ago or during the january 6th committee hearings. what is your interpretation of those statements, people saying either i didn t do anything wrong or to the extent that i did, it was because donald trump asked me to? so, i think i m not sure what we can draw from those
Law. how is that not soliciting or conspireing fraud? we are absolutely confident having looked at the evidence that our client has not violated any of those. do you acknowledge that donald trump lost the georgia election? me? i am that s an easy one. do you acknowledge that, drew? no. no. he did not acknowledge that, a theme we ve seen in some lawyers. as a fact check, trump famously did lose the race, that s why charges hold some merit. in the interview he also explained, based on his own expertise, because he has background in rico defenses, his criticism of what would be a possibly rico case by the d.a. we re going against that same district attorney s office that s doing these crazy rico indictments and caging these young men of color for years waiting to go to trial. we have no confidence in the way they ve handled those cases, and
Pushing farther. some of the other lawyers have been indicted now in the georgia rico case. jim, i have been eager to hear from you given all this. what do you say tonight to some of those individuals that you and your colleagues did clash with or clashed with their efforts after donald trump lost the election? so, i was in the white house counsel s office first year, so i wasn t one of those folks at the end of the tenure. that s pat cipollone and his team, and they were pushing very hard against all these things. i do believe those folks were doing the work of the people of the united states in pushing against those things. the white house counsel s office. yeah, the white house counsel s office. you know these folks, people around donald trump. what do you say to the defendants? they have been alleged to have committed serious crimes here, right? the fact that they re being brought in, no shock they have to go through the same processing and everyone else goes through. they
Negotiation. and by any legal standard i can tell you this is an asserti one. it shows she means business. she wants to start the trial by october for all 19 defendants. that would be in about we know legally from precedent that a big sprawling rico case with 19 defendants usually takes longer to prepare. we can do you one better as we bring you recent precedents. there are pending rico cases brought by this very d.a. that have taken longer than that. trump s team has taken a motion opposing the date, which is his right, and we expect that squabbling to continue among trump and others. a last minute shake-up on donald trump s legal team, which is interesting given he tapped a experiencedg lawyer who we had on this show. and today he swapped him out and swapped a new one in hours before the surrender tonight.
Lawyers including myself, believe that that case was brought, has merit, and is going to be very tough to defend. the second case in terms of the january 6th issues that jack smith brought, is going to be a very tough case to defend. and he s before a very tough sentencing judge if he s going to end up being convicted. i think jack smith did it a little differently than fani willis did, in that streamlined it to name a lot of those folks as coconspirators. didn t name them as unindicted coconspirator, which says a lot. potentially could still be indicted. and this case was brought the atlanta case was very much brought in a far reaching, wide ranging 19 people. that case is not streamlined. that case is going to go take longer, harder to do. they set a trial date. that trail date is likely to happen two years from now if they re lucky. i got a simple question for