i m katie phang in for chris hayes. tonight a development in the department of justice classified documents case against donald trump. it comes in the form of a filing from trump s coconspirator and codefendant, wall teen nauta. today, his lawyers try to get the first hearing in the documents case postponed indefinitely. they filed this motion, asking federal district court judge aileen cannon to delay the hearing scheduled to take place this friday, july 14th. they are claiming in this that the date just doesn t work, because now does lead, lawyer is scheduled to begin a trial for another client in washington d.c. this week. notably, that client is federico klein, former trump appointee at the state department who faces several charges in connection with his participation in the violent insurrection on january 6th. walt nauta s lawyers argued in the motion today that his local florida counsel cannot appear on her own because she just joined the case last week. these delays w
will begin choosing two grand jury s tomorrow. if we ll estates pursue charges against donald trump, these jurors will be the people signing off on them. meanwhile, special counsel jack smith wants to take the classified documents case to trial this december. both sides have agreed to a hearing next tuesday about handling evidence that was supposed to happen this friday. the judge has yet to give the okay. the timing of the trial is absolutely key, you know why, because we are just seven months out from the first presidential primaries. the judge knows that, if this trial does not occur by the end of this calendar year, that it is going to be right up in the grill of people deciding who the republican nominees for president should be and, right now, the favorite in fact is the defendant. the case is also the focus of a new political ad that started airing in the battleground states of arizona, georgia, and wisconsin. in it, former cia and nsa director michael haden is jus
ever criminal trial of an american expresident started the day. opening statements this morning in a downtown manhattan courthouse in donald j. trump s criminal case. they made the opening statements to the jury and the six alternates. it is about a conspiracy of the expresident and his allies to interfere in the 2016 election. the negative stories about donald trump. the attorney for the prosecution, matthew spoke about a 2015 meeting in trump tower between donald trump, his former fixer, michael cohen, and a man named david. the negative stories about donald trump s relationships with women was allegedly hashed. it is a scheme commonly referred to as catch and kill. he said in the wake of the release of the access hollywood tape which was a political earthquake, michael cohen paid former adult film star stormy daniels $130,000 to keep her alleged affair with donald trump silent. according to reporting from the courtroom, he said this. at trump s direction, mike cohen nego