Fourmonth trial time line. Also raising what might happen if any or all of the motions to remove are granted or appeal to the 11th circuit. For the first televised hearing regarding the attempts to overturn the 2020 election, it was fascinating, if a little complicated. Were going to begin with georgia. Please dont go anywhere, there is also news out of the Special Counsels classified documents case. More on what one of Donald Trumps lawyers said on tape, warning the former president , what the government would do if he did not comply. Lets start, though, in georgia. Joining us now is nbc news correspondent garrett haake, and outside the Fulton County courthouse for us, nbc legal contributor, katie phang. I was surprised how quickly he denied the motion to sever from kenneth chesebro. Reporter we were pleasantly surprised to see how quickly judge mcafee ruled. Ruling from the bench not that often but especially in a case like this. Hes under a quick time line. October 23rd, a little bi
he s going to plead guilty to that firearms offense because this letter from doj specifies that he will plead guilty to the tax misdemeanors. it does not say he will bleed guilty to the firearm offenses. it says he s going to a pretrial diversion agreement. ellie, hold on to one second for that let s get to evan perez. he has more information on that. the exact wording, evan, in this letter, is that the defendant has agreed to enter pretrial diversion agreement with respect to the firearm information. what do you think? yeah, look. this is one of the things, certainly, it s a little confusing, the language. he has agreed that he s going to enter this program. one that has to do with his substance abuse issues which hunter biden has been very, very public about. he wrote a book. ironically, that s the book, the book where he talked about his substance abuse issues. very, very candid, things that he said about what he was doing
he s got white socks on, so i m going to go after him on that. i m looking for some way i can get leverage on her in the room in the event i don t have a hammer and i don t think she s cooperating. so we don t know a lot about her. we ve heard the sisters and they said one thing, that they think he sent her away to asia to be away when he committed this mass murder. we don t know. that s coming from the single source from the sister. we know she lived with him. we know that i don t know how long she lived with him but presumably she was there through the course of the year. according to kyung lah, reporter, catching up all the firearm information. he accrued 33 weapons over the course of september of last year to october of this year. so presumably if you re living with a man who keeps accruing weapons one would wonder are you asking questions? why are you buying all these guns? it s not just accruing weapons. think of all the dimensions. you can almost think of it as a