Effective, and it is not safe. Thank you very much. That is all in on the thursday night. Alex wagner tonight starts right now. Good evening, alex. Thanks to athome for joining me this hour. This evening, weve got some fairly shocking news. President trump is asking the court to schedule one of his federal criminal trials before the november election, specifically, trump is requesting that maralago classify its documents case to begin on august 12th. That is correct. Donald trump asked for that trial to start just three months before the president ial election. Except, that request may not exactly be what it sounds like. It could very well be a game of 3d chess. It does not sound like something trump placed on that often, but play with me here. Trump pitching that august date could be a way of trying to block the other federal criminal case, the Special Counsels much more serious a federal Election Interference case from going to trial before the election. Yesterday we got that massive
B is august. He has made an immunity argument, the same argument that is made in d. C. One minor difference. He wasnt president. His argument is, but i took the documents while i was president. I have said, that is like a bank robber saying you know, i legally got the gun that i used to rob the bank. Right. I was a customer of the bank when they went in and took the money. Everything is just such an irrelevancy. But hes got judge cannon and so the question is whether judge cannon will sit on that, whether she will grant it, or if she denies it and says but its not a frivolous argument, meaning all of these delays of appeal that we have seen in the d. C. Case, don trump is going to try that, of course. Same road. Back to the Supreme Court. Its much harder factual argument. But, thats not the issue. Just remember, we were all sitting here going, hes arguing that he can order s. E. A. L. Team six to kill a political important opponent and were going as absolutely laughable laughable. A no
Classified documents case to begin on august 12th. That is correct. Donald trump asked for that trial to start just three months before the president ial election. Except, that request may not exactly be what it sounds like. It could very well be a game of 3d chess. It does not sound like something trump placed on that often, but play with me here. Trump pitching that august date could be a way of trying to block the other federal criminal case, the Special Counsels much more serious a federal Election Interference case from going to trial before the election. Yesterday we got that massive news, the Supreme Court has agreed to hear trumps argument, that those criminal trials in the d. C. Case should be thrown out because a president ial immunity. But the court did not schedule oral arguments on that case to start until the week of april 20 seconds. Because of that delay, even if the Supreme Court decides this case incredibly quickly, this Election Interference case most likely could no
Omit . So i go back to the video, and i see that in the middle of that phrase, he had said, you know, we won in a landslide, everyone knows it. The election was stolen, you know, so even when hes recounting a moment when his own life was in danger and when President Trump wasnt helping him out, he is still covering for the boss. So that to me was very revelatory. The new book is entitled the Washington Book how to read politics and politicians with, and its on sale now. New york times opinion columnist carlos lozada. That does it for us this morning, have a great weekend, everybody. Ana cabrera picks up the coverage right now. Right now on ana cabrera reports, donald trump in a courthouse in florida, high stakes hearing this hour in the classified documents case. What were learning about the time line for a trial. Plus, Closing Arguments today in the bid to disqualify the d. A. In the Georgia Election case. Could that entire prosecution now be in jeopardy . Also ahead, intense security
It is 11 00 a. M. Eastern, 8 00 a. M. Pacific. Im jose diazbalart. Right now a federal judge in florida is holding a hearing on several key issues related to former President Trumps classified documents case, including when to start the trial. The former president is attending the hearing in fort pierce about 130 miles north of miami. Hes his remaining rival nikki haley said she thinks all his legal problems should be dealt with before the election. I think all of the cases should be dealt with before november. We need to know whats going to happen before it happen before the presidency happens, because after that, should he become president , i dont think any of it will get. Over 500 miles away, a judge will hear Closing Arguments this afternoon in a motion to disqualify Fulton County District Attorney fani willis from prosecuting the case 6r789. With us to talk more about all of this, msnbc National Correspondent Yasmin Vossoughian outside the federal courthouse in fort pierce, flori