Deadline white house starts right now. Hi there, everyone, its 4 00 in new york. The disgraced twiceinimpeached quite indicted president with Delusions Of Grandeur and thin skin is proving that Birds Of A Feather do indeed flock together. While President Joe Biden was on the road pitching an agenda nor the second term, the expresident was meeting with the proputin antidemocratic leader of hungary singing his praises, watch that. Theres nobody better, smarter, or better than viktor orban, hes fantastic. Does a good job. Noncontroversial, because he said this is the way its going to be. Hes the boss. Hes a greater leader. Fantastic leader in europe and All Over The World. They respect him. Never mind the fact that orban is anything but, noncontroversial, even in his own country. And death by a thousand cuts approach to ending democracy in his own nation has been universally condemned. The meeting between the hungarian Strongman Leader and the wannabe american strong man, also yielded an
friend. i wanted to come hang out with you, on friday night. you need to take a train to do that, but we welcome you on amtrak, and we re here for you. i m always here for. you have a wonderful weekend. thank you. you too, alex. have a great. so thank you, and thank you to you at home for joining me this hour. today fulton county district attorney fani willis asked a judge to set the trial date for former president trump and his 14 remaining codefendants in the georgia election interference case. that date, august 5th, 2024. now that date would be stunning on its own or. it s just three months before election day. but d.a. willis asking for an august 4th trial date today is even more of a big deal when you consider that she just said this on tuesday. i believe in that case there will be a trial. i believe the trial will take many months. i don t expect that we will conclude until the winter or the very early part of 2025. trump s legal team promptly filed its own
interference case. that date, august 5th, 2024. now that date would be stunning on its own or. it s just three months before election day. but d. a. willis asking for an august 4th trial date today is even more of a big deal when you consider that she just said this on tuesday. i believe in that case there will be a trial. i believe the trial will take many months. i don t expect that we will conclude until the winter or the very early part of 2025. trump s legal team promptly filed its own motion opposing that august 5th trial date. we have no idea how the judge will rule here. but there is a very real chance that former prior president trump could be on trial during the closing weeks of the 2024 election, elected, itself through january six in the election certification process, and maybe even through inauguration. and we remember how that all went down last time, don t we, in 2020? well, this would add a new level of complexity to all of that. this is not the only key
Manafort. The defense is going to go on offense to attack gates credibility. All of that is part of the drama today. The nuts and bolts of this case are still in the numbers, in the tax fraud, bank fraud, alleged deals for these clients allied with the putin regime. Now, Paul Manafort faces 18 fraud charges from a time before he ever joined the trump campaign. This was all the ukrainian consulting work, which means theres a ton of paper and prosecutors are arguing to this jury whatever happens with mr. Gates, the paper doesnt lie. For example, also new, we can tell you, they showed an email today that manafort sent to gates with gates testifying that trumps former Campaign Chair wrote this is a disaster in april 2015 in that email, about a higher than expected tax bill, throwing in a wtf as well. The full quote is he told the jury hes not happy, i just saw this, wtf, how could i be blind
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