proceed. all have to be arraigned. we know the district attorney s office has asked for the arraignments to take place of the week of september 5th. judge has not weighed in on a timeline for this. this is also something that in georgia can happen repoetly. either on zoom or able to waive arraignments if the judge allows it. so we re waiting to see if this is a situation where donald trump could be appearing in a courtroom in the next couple of weeks. or if essentially he and the other defendants are able to waive these initial steps. now, we re also learning from a flu filing from the district attorney that she s ready to get the ball rolling on sharing discovery. she s said that the defendants in this case should supply the district attorney s office with a large usb drive and by mid-september she s willing to hand over the first batch of the discovery materials. the other fight that is playing out is whether this case and the defendants in this case are going to be showing up in the
kenneth white is joining us as well. mark meadows will have a hearing this mond as we just heard on his attempt to try to move his case to federal court from the state court. is this likely to be approved and how could that impact the other 18 defendants? well, wolf, it is not clear yet whether it will be approved. most legal commentators think that he has an uphill battle. in federal court, he has to show he was a federal officer and doing things related to his office but also that he has a colorable federal defense. and it is depending on how the judge sees it, it could be very difficult to indicate to the judge that he was doing things that were what is called necessary and proper to his office. and that is what the law requires. a judge in new york rejected, you might remember, donald trump s attempt to move the new york case to federal court on that theory. and we may be seeing mark meadows having an uphill battle demonstrating that the things that he did here for donald
this in georgia, he wanted a speedy trial and the judge said okay, we could get the ball rolling. we could move ahead in october 2023. one of the things that the judge said in this order, though, is at this time, these deadlines do not apply to any co-defendant. making clear that he s going to set this trial date, but for ken cheesebro only. now within the last hour or two, we also saw sidney powell, another one of the attorneys who was working with donald trump in the aftermath of the election, again, going to court and say she also would like a speedy trial. so we re waiting for the judge to weigh in on that the timeline for her. this calls into question what the timeline is going to be for all of the rest of the defendants in this case. the d.a. said we re ready to go. we could bring everyone to trial in october of 2023. a time line other attorneys have thought was unrealistic and we ve seen trump s team say they don t think that is realistic and they don t want to go with that date
how long could this defendant actually remain in custody? yeah, this is harrison floyd. again he s one of the lesser known co-defendants in this case. he s been accused of being a harassment campaign against the election workers. he s the only one of the 19 defendants who did not prenegotiate some kind of bond with the district attorney s office. he showed up at jail and he turned himself in and he was detained there and he appeared before the judge today that shed he would not release on bail. he has to appear before the judge assigned to oversee this case. now in this hearing harrison floyd made the argument he could not afford an attorney and they said that you don t neat the requirements needed for a public defender. so he could still be sitting in there through the weekend while we wait for the judge who has been assigned to this case in georgia to weigh in on his bond conditions and whether he could be released. i want you to stay with us. i want to continue this conversation
court. we have this big hearing coming up on monday where mark meadows team is going make the case why they believe this should be moved to federal court. we re expecting there to be live witnesses as part of this sort of evidentiary portion of this hearing. one of the witnesses that fani willis has called is brad raffensperger who of course was pressured by donald trump to find the votes needed for trump to win the 2020 election in georgia which he of course lost. we ve seen similar moves by jeffrey clark and latham. would sear looking for signals what the judge might have to say more broadly about the pool of defendants, wolf. as you know, sarah, one defendant is already asked for a speedy trial. how fast could this move to trial? that is right. ken cheesebro working with the former president in the aftermath of the 2020 election was quick out of the gate in saying and he has right to do