About the Mask Mandates in place at the moment and Karine Jeanpierre said yes, the way this process is supposed to work. Its a different message out of the white house which is tightly controlling some of the mandates through cdc recommendations throughout the pandemic. Trace indeed. Gillian take a look at this, any moment now, Mitch Mcconnell will face reporters, it is expected to be mcconnells health, obviously, after two freezeups over the last few weeks. Welcome back, im Gillian Turner in washington. Good to be with you, trace. Trace gillian, good to be with you. Im Trace Gallagher in los angeles. Sandra and john have the day off. Breaking news in the hunter biden probe, david weiss and hunters attorneys have until the end of the day to provide an update on the battle over a Diversion Agreement that was aimed to keep hunter out of prison. Special council weiss says the agreement fell through when the plea deal collapsed in july. Hunter bidens team is arguing the opposite. David spu
presented with evidence about what happened, and she came to the conclusion that he falls into the category of those who would be disqualified, but for the fact of the office that he seeks, or the office that he once held and the oath that he took. and so i think that s relevant. certainly, maybe not in a court of law, but in the court of public opinion, the idea that this looks like insurrection and he looks like an insurrectionist, i think is very relevant. thank you to both of you. i actually have a lot more to discuss with you, but this is the way things go these days. melissa murray is a law professor at nyu and an msnbc legal analyst. julia lithwick is the senior editor at slate, and author of the important book lady justice, women, the law, and the battle to save america. still to come, we continue our coverage of the breaking news and the fight over donald trump s eligibility to run for president again. just moments from now, i ll be joined by the colorado secretary
The architects of the january 6th coup, he said that i want to travel right away. on october 23rd, fani willis, the prosecutor, says yeah, game on. the judge says, fine, game on. so what this means is that the first january six trial will happen, and it will likely be in georgia and it will likely be just mr. chesbrough, and perhaps for sydney powell who s also asked for a fast trial. but it won t likely involve donald trump or the other 16 defendants that are named in the indictment, but that means that just signal, this stuff is starting to happen, if you are donald, trump you ve got to be very worried. andrews, to pick it up, why should donald trump be worried, what does it mean for his case? so, i think the court of public opinion and the issue of just the legal court. so let s just focus on the court of public opinion. as you mentioned, in your intro,
From. by popular demand, joining me now is who else, but the law firm, is the former acting solicitor general, and andrew weissmann. and i m so thrilled. ellis so, i want to get in as many as possible and sidney powell filed her own request, there also reports that john eastman is asking for the same thing. . what does that mean at trump s case there is the georgia one that you talk about that for trial. to begin on january six of 2024. with respect to this request from ken chesbrough who, is one of the architects of the january 6th coup, he said, i want a trial right away, on october 23rd. fani willis, the prosecutor
Oh, you want to speedy trial? i m ready to go. i could put all 19 of you in a courtroom and start your trial 60 days from today. on october 23rd, we can do all of you. that would be a very crowded courtroom and a very quick timeframe. but i just wanted your reaction to that in terms of how we should view that. what do you think the practical impact of that is today? i don t think anyone who is practicing in fulton county would be surprised. if you asked for a speedy trial you need to be ready to have that speedy trial. i think what we can take away is that the two and a half years that d.a. willis spent building this case, it wasn t built to present to the grand jury. she was building it to take the case to trial. she indicated that her press conference after the indictment, when she said she wanted to try this case within six months. i don t think logistically the case will be tried or they would ve been tried in six months absent of speedy, but i think that was what she was