Addresses posted on a far right website. Growing concerns about what might happen next. Also he promised a Big Press Conference two days ago claiming hed finally blow the lid off 2020 Election Fraud. More signs tonight he was, no surprise, just blowing smoke. And hawaii with a thousand people still unaccounted for a cnn investigation into why mauis Emergency Sirens stayed deadly silent. Good evening and thanks so much for joining us. We begin with Breaking News. The former president s attorneys have weighed in with what they want the trial date to be in the federal election sub version case. It is a long way off. The Justice Department had proposed january of 2024. The former president s attorneys now say the trial should not start until april, 2026. That is more than 2 1 2 years from now. If mr. Trump is elected president again, it is effectively never. The lawyers in their filings saying the Justice Departments proposed date denies them the ability to prepare for trial. Joining us no
scott mcafee has only been on the fulton county superior court bench for a few short months but is now dealing with a case that could be one for the ages. gary tuchman, cnn, atlanta. more now on the challenges facing this judge and every judge in charge of trying to trying the former president. joining me is now former federal judge thank you very much for joining us. i want to see if you have a thought about the trump legal team asking for a date of april 2026. it kind of made me chuckle but that is in the election fraud case, the federal case. yeah. obviously he would like it to be as long as possible in delay taking forever but there is no need for that in that case. that is a straight forward case and should be tried soon. and the judge is the one who makes the decision on that. absolutely. the government has asked for january. january 24th. so i think it is going to go this spring. you ve heard about the death
slave and then the n word and warning her, quote, if trump doesn t get elected in 2024 we are coming to kill you so tread lightly and saying bitch. she also allegedly said you are in our sights. we want to kill you. the woman is being held pending trial. we ve learned the fbi atlanta office is now helping the fulton county sheriff s office after threats of violence to unspecified county officials. the sheriff s office is also working in their words to track down the origins of threats against the grand jurors who voted monday to indict the former president. the threats coming after their names and addresses showed up on various online platforms frequented by the far right. joining me now is the cnn chief law enforcement and intelligence analyst john miller and also a former agent. how much of the former president s rhetoric plays into this? would this woman have known judge chutkan s name had the former president not been talking about her so much? i don t think you can separate th
threat against judge chutkan. judges have been threatened before. targeting a judge, having the former president, you know, talking about her and calling her racist, all sorts of things. when you hear that, i think so many people, this seems normal. should it be normal? it is certainly not normal for a judge to be threatened but not unheard of in high profile cases because there are people out there who are not mentally together. in any high profile case a judge can get threatening letters, threatening phone calls, and the u.s. marshals are very aware of that and they take care of that. unfortunately, there have been a couple judges who have actually been killed. a couple federal judges and some state judges so it is taken very seriously by the marshals. putting the names of grand jurors online, targeting jurors, that does hurt the i can t help but believe that would hurt a person s willingness to serve on a jury. absolutely.
committed who we thought were a danger to themselves or someone we were protecting. as you are saying before they are core lated. this topsy-turvy world where we have a former president, former mayor of new york, who reach down and target jurors to campaign workers. election workers. ruby freeman. it is extraordinary that this is just, and it seems normal now. i think the flipside argument is bizarre because you have someone in the person of a former president who has secret service protection, driving the language that is driving the threats to people who have no protection. thanks so much. appreciate it. we are also learning more tonight about the judge who will preside over the fulton county trail. reporter: this is scott mcphee superior court judge in