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Of course, thank you for joining us. Cnn prime time with laura coates starts right now. Wow, that was a really fascinating interview. Weve all been leaning in to say what bill barr had to say. A lot of wanting to see what he had to say. Thank you for joining us here in washington, d. C. Its a Capitol On High alert tonight . Why . Because the nation is bracing for the arrest and arraignment of a former president. Should i say again the third time in three months. He will appear in Court Tomorrow as expected, and now his third indictment on charges of trying to overturn an election. And we learned on cnn the Secret Service has already done a walk through of the courthouse and Law Enforcement is even monitoring any potential threats. Meantime, everyone, were getting ....
Unlawful and unconstitutional. so either way it s bad, so people should know. well, as a legal matter they actually do. the speedy trial act, which governs how judges are supposed to set trial schedules, includes specifying it s not just the defendant s interest in a speedy trial but the public has an interest in a speedy trial, twenty-two. about a month ago in politico we actually did a poll coming over the indictments and we asked people should the trial occur before the republican primary or the election? almost two thirds said it would occur before the general election. almost half of the republicans. if there s one case in particular you ought to know the outcome of which one is it? it s this one. it shows how donald trump behaved as president during an election. there couldn t be anything more important than that. and so for the american people ....
Judge chutkan. she s the one that will oversee this case in a possible trial. instead this will be before a magistrate and likely have another date on the calender for his first hearing before a trial judge. in case your wonder, yes, paula reid does live in this news building and reports news constantly all the time. we re going to go back to the table. the viewers are asking questions. one of the questions they re asking is, look, can he serve if he s convicted? yes. yes. there s the answer. the answer is yes, america. number two, if he were to go behind bars for any of these alleged crimes could he be elected from prison? yes. yes. wow. go back to the eugene debbs case. wow, that s where we are. it s surprising to people and i want to unpack a little more. it might surprise people to know when we talk about all the different kwoifgdss it takes to ....
Hardworking class hardworking people, small donors and tells them this is to defend america and to, you know, take care of the he didn t provide any significant support during the 22 elections and a lot of this money seems to be going to his legal fees. he s nauseated. i want to ask you because you ve been and received public defenders. as much as discussions are having about haves and have notes and a tale of two justice systems. which i think is true. the have and have notes are in stark contrast in terms of what they re able to access for justice, but that conversation doesn t really contemplate something like this. i think that s what s so interesting about this case is it took so long to even be brought. what everyone saw on january 6th was truly mind-blowing, and it really is the most dangerous kind of act for our country to try to undo the election results ....
Called this is not my term but the dilution defense, that he actually believed his own lies. plus the suggestion he s about to throw his legal advisers under the bus. i can t imagine that happening. and just moments ago trump s former attorney general bill barr spoke to cnn with his very first reaction to this new indictment. at first i wasn t sure, but i ve come to believe that he knew well he d lost the election. what i think is important is the government has assumed the burden of proving that. the government in their indictment takes the position that he had actual knowledge that he had lost the election and the election wasn t stolen through fraud. and they re going to have to prove that beyond a reasonable doubt. which is a high bar, of course. that s a high bar. now, that leads me to believe that they we re only seeing the tip of the iceberg on this. you think jack smith has more? oh, yeah, some i would believe he has a lot more. well, in the case of this ....