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it s very significant. the weight of resources are no longer in your favor, i don t care how much money you necessarily have. what they re doing now is likely expected a not guilty plea where he will formally tell the court he has notice of all the charges against him, and they will set some date in the future in terms of when he will have to either have discovery provided to him, there likely is not going to be a motion schedule for the things that you would argue about what would come into evidence, that s going to be longer down the road. but the notion of a rap sheet is so significant with these different indictments, particularly because of this reason normally if somebody has charges against them, trials in the same vicinity, you re talking about maybe if they are convicted they re going to run concurrent sentences, meaning this one will run on top of the other and the other. it s not going to be you ll serve five years for this one, then ten years for another, ....
But beyond that, they don t want this trial bringing out evidence in the midst of a political run for office. right. his ticket to freedom is getting elected president so he can shut this down. that s the that s his only way out of this box. and so that requires delay. it requires a lot of other things to happen, it requires probably a third-party candidate or something like that. but that s his play is to string this out to the point to where in his brain he thinks maybe he can win the election and then he can appoint a new attorney general. in fact, the the office of legal counsel of the justice department has twice held over the last half century that sitting presidents can t be tried, they can t be charged and can t go to jail. so that s his play. and for the non-lawyers watching, correct me if i m wrong, but it s not just that it s he can remain a candidate for president there s no prohibitions ....
even with a conviction. a recent conviction. i think that s importance for people to know. well, eugene debs ran for president from prison. a whole other story. there s an inherent tension here. that the justice department running its process and as andy was describing earlier, the rights of the defendant are paramount. and this judge that is assigned to the district court overseeing the trial, she is going to make sure that the defendant s rights are protected in this case. and there is a tension between that and the political calendar. even though as we heard in your interview with john bolton from a political perspective, there is a desire, you can make a it interest argument for the trial to move along quickly. the process and discovery and all of the things that go into a normal criminal case with serious conspiracy and obstruction charges here needs to have its process. and that may or may not line up with the let me bring in, if i can, the former u.s. attorney general ....
Justice department here in washington. obviously only days before trump was ultimately indicted here. yeah. donald trump having posted many social media posts accusing jack smith of preposterous and drag tori insults. jack smith letting his indictment of the former president doing his talking for him. let s talk to some of our law and justice experts here about what is likely going on right now. lara coates, former federal prosecutor, i assume you ve worked in that building. what is going on? donald trump enters the building, he doesn t have to be fingerprinted because his fingerprints are already there theoretically from the last case, if even they were taken then. there s no mug shot. what is he doing what s the experience? inside first of all, it s an unpleasant experience, the fact that he is there, no matter what he is saying on his truth social. nobody wants to have the weight of the united states versus and their name on other side of it. ....
Stack of papers sitting in front. he started sort of fiddling with it. he was fidgeting around and then he looked down and was clearly reading what was on the paper and then lifted it up in front of him and i could see it was the indictment itself. evan said he seemed a bit angry about something he saw on that paper he was referencing todd blanche on there. what s the biggest headline coming out of this is how very clearly the judge was talking about the speed of what this trial could look like. she s not the judge who will oversee it but she had consulted with that judge and there was a back and forth with her and trump s attorney over that. what did that look like? that s right. so that was a back and forth that happened at the end of the hearing and it was a dispute that s going to bubble up a couple times in this case in that there is right now the justice department wanting this to be a speedy trial. they re ready to hand over evidence to the defense, even evidence they re not ....