peter baker, chief white house chrisman for the new york times, catherine christian, former district assistant attorney for the manhattan attorney s office, she s now a msnbc legal analyst. and former federal prosecutor glenn kirschner who, luckiest, was at the d. c. court for trump s hearing today. meanwhile, glenn, we discuss this for a while, you said the first of all of this, she doesn t come to play. this woman means business. so tell us what the hearing was like. yes, you know, stuff, i was a little surprised when she came out and sort of opened with her believe that neither jack smith s proposed trial date of january 2nd, 2024, nor the defenses trial date of april 2026 were appropriate trial dates. and i have to tell you, i kind of felt like she might do the salomone thing and maybe split the difference. but i don t think donald trump s lawyer, john laura, it did himself any favors because judge chutkan pressed him several times saying we are not going to go to trial in 2026,
guilty plea that has been filed in the case. trump defended race smith and george cases officially pleaded not guilty monday in a court filing in fulton county. he waved his september 6th arraignment. with that, let s get smarter with help of our lead off panel tonight and your look we ve got a great one. peter baker, chief white house chrisman for the new york times, catherine christian, former district assistant attorney for the manhattan attorney s office, she s now a msnbc legal analyst. and former federal prosecutor glenn kirschner who, luckiest, was at the d.c. court for trump s hearing today. meanwhile, glenn, we discuss this for a while, you said the first of all of this, she doesn t come to play. this woman means business. so tell us what the hearing was like. yes, you know, stuff, i was a little surprised when she came out and sort of opened with her believe that neither