Eight days later is the georgia primary, which by the way georgia is not a great state for the former president right now, beyond just the fulton county indictment. beyond that is florida where his top competitor is the governor of florida who just crushed his opponent in his re-election campaign. when you look at this calendar, are there political problems here? yes, because then several weeks after that he ll be in new york for the new york hush money payment case. and then down the line at the end of may in florida he s scheduled to appear in the trial there. then we don t know when the trial date officially will be set in this georgia case. so, this is going to be happening at a time when things are really ramping up on the presidential campaign trail. you know, things already seems like all eyes are on the trail with all this activity over trump s indictments, even more so than they would be in any other election year. but by march, candidates are out there. they re talking to v
Off the delay for two years delay. instead the biggest voting day in that primary race, super tuesday. meanwhile, mark meadows left court in georgia yesterday without a ruling on his effort to move his state case to federal court. the judge says he will rule as quickly as possible. cnn s evan perez joins us now. evan, i want to start with the federal case, what you were watching in d.c., the delay. how will it work when trump or his legal team try and appeal that date or shift that march 4th date? reporter: yeah, phil. look, i think she is not very patient at all with the attempt to try to delay this. she right off the bat told the defense that she didn t believe they were going to get two years. she didn t think they needed two years. they had plenty of time to be able to prepare. they were complaining about millions of pages of documents
Months, it s packed. i want to ask you about the georgia election interference case. mark meadows showing up to testify. to some degree a collective gasp. you haven t heard from him really january 6th with the exception of his book. the decision to put him on the stand, a risk i think to some degree unexpected but a gamble that could pay off to some degree? reporter: right. it is a gamble that could pay off. certainly the judge from the bench yesterday, phil, said that this is pretty low bar to remove this case. he asked some very pointed questions himself of mark meadows lawyer about the limits of what he was arguing, which is that what mark meadows was doing, going down to georgia, spending time pressuring state officials, all of that was part of his official duties as chief of staff. in the end, though, this is a gamble because in the end what mark meadow s did was answer questions that he has not had to