something white house officials were not aware of in advance, he detailed a timeline and underscored the fact when the president first talked about the classified documents earlier this week, he omitted a second set of documents we discovered last night. and they knew about them. take a listen. the review was underway when you guys gave the detailed statement about the first set of documents. the review was underway when the president spoke about the first set of documents. you re now saying you didn t talk about the second set of documents discovered almost a month prior because a review was underway. it doesn t make any sense. the only difference was that reporters had information on the first set of documents and therefore you chose to exclude the second set of documents until reporters got information on the second set of documents. let me unconfuse you, phil. we are trying to do this by the book. i said yesterday this was under review by the department of justice. an
One she rec one, she gave them six months to get ready for a single defendant case. and two, she made it quite clear to the trump team that the public relations games that they and their client play are not going to impact the decisions she makes in the courtroom. judge chutkan also signalled in so many words that the public interest in a speedy trial is what s driving her scheduling decision, not primary politics. and as for mark meadows today, he took the stand in what played out like a minitrial in his testimony on why he believes his case belongs in federal court, could have significant impact on his codefendants, including his former boss. meadows said he believed the actions detailed in the fulton county indictment for part of his official duties and were done at donald trump s behest. this included, he said, setting up the former president s call in which he asked state officials to find him 11,780 votes. whatever impact meadows testimony has today on his
So. she, of course, is the one who s promoted that unhinged stolen election conspiracy theories, like the one about hugo chavez rigging the u.s. election from his grave. obviously this move comes after we just saw another former trump attorney, kenneth chesebro, who also requested a speedy trial, and he might get it. the judge responded with an october 2023 trial date. as for donald trump, his legal team is taking the exact opposite approach. and they want to push the trial back as far as possible. meanwhile, fulton county district attorney fani willis has served notice she s prepared to start turning over a trove of evidence to defendants attorneys exactly three weeks from now, september 15th. that comes as willis is facing her first big test in this entire case on monday, when a hearing is going to be held over meadows request to move his request from a state court to a federal one. it is certainly going to look like a minitrial before the real trials get started.
Presidency. he was the chief of staff of the white house when he helped set up that call for donald trump and spoke on it, somewhat, whenever trump was calling brad raffensperger, the secretary of state. so, at this hearing on monday, it ll be like a minitrial theoretically. the d.a. s office is subpoenaing witnesses, including raffensperger himself, others who were witness to that call. they re going to bring them to the witness stand, put them on display, have them testify. and a judge is going to look at this and determine, should mark meadows be able to move his case to federal court and get constitutional protections around him because he was the white house chief of staff? or should this stay in state court? was he doing politicking when he was setting up that call working for trump after the election. the other thing the judge could weigh in on is if everybody should have their case in federal court and maybe signify what should happen with trump s case as well. preseason scri
During the preliminary hearing in june? reporter: this preliminary hearing will be very important. it will begin on june 26th. it could last all week. it s a minitrial of sorts with a lower standard of proof. the prosecution will present more evidence, more than we learned last week. the defense will get a chance to cross examine. and ultimately the judge will have to decide if there is sufficient evidence for the defendant to be binded over for trial. it s likely that will happen with the amount of evidence we ve seen so far and the amount we anticipate we will be learning. we are learning we don t know the answer to this, but one thing we didn t learn last week in the affidavit, what is the motive? what do police and prosecutors think is the motive? we may learn that starting june 26th. ahead, a new phase in the january 6th aftermath. key members of the proud boys go on trial, facing the charge of seditious conspiracy. we ll take you inside the case next. relief you need.