with trump to hide classified documents at trump s florida beach glove and then attempted to cover it all up. for weeks now, mr. nauta has been delaying this arraignment, claiming that he s had trouble finding local florida representation. and today we ll, we learned he has found that local representation, the dawn baton a law. we don t know for sure who is paying for mr. nauta s new local council but the other lawyer, the non local council that mr. nauta has had for a while who by the way was also in court today and entered mr. nauta s plea, that lawyer is an attorney named and we know from public disclosures that mr. woodward s law firm is being paid by former president trump political action committee save america. that matters because if the past is prolonged here, then the lawyers and who pays for the lawyers can make a world of a difference when it comes to actually getting at the truth. i was in the vicinity of a conversation where i overheard the president say som
never thought i would, i m running out of things to say. having known you for 1000, years that seems hard to believe, dude. or that we will get to the bottom of that jar of peanut butter. there you go. there s nothing left. we will never tire of the things that you have to say. keep saying them. so many takes. i ll be following. thanks, chris. and thank you to you at home for joining us this hour. we start this evening with this. get caught in a hot mess? call the dawn bomb of law. that is an ad for the legal services of the new florida lawyer representing former president trump s alleged coconspirator, walt nauta in the mar-a-lago documents case. just from the layman s perspective here, yes, it sure seems like he is caught in a hot mess. today in miami, mr. nauta finally pleaded not guilty to the charges that he screamed with trump to hide color documents of trump s florida beach club, and then attempted to cover it up. for weeks now, if mr. nauta it has been delay
those are the only three words spoken by donald trump s codefendant walt nauta in miami today in an arraignment hearing that lasted only five minutes. walter replied yes, your honor, when judge edwin torres asked him if he had read the charges against him and consulted with an attorney. the delay in walt nauta s arraignment occur because washington-based attorney, stanley woodward, took three weeks to find a local florida lawyer who would join the defense team as required by florida rules. walt nauta s local florida lawyer is a least experienced lawyer in the case and has never handled high pressure federal litigation. the new york times reports of the 34-year-old lawyer, sasha dadan, his limited experience with the federal courts. her name doesn t appear at all in pace, or the nationwide database federal cases. but she has handled numerous local cases in fort pierce, florida. that is where judge aileen mercedes cannon, who is overseeing mr. trump s prosecution, is based and
that his doctor prescribed him opium laced wine. and he wasn t so much pain that he basically was taking a sip of this concoction and between every single sentence. and by the end of the trial he could barely stand and was slurring his words because he had taken so much of this, what they thought of then, as medication. so it just goes to show how much our understanding of these things have changed. we still have the impeachment proceedings but we don t have the opium laced wine. was it a big deal that he was taking opium laced wine at the time? or was it just, oh there he goes again with the openly opium least wine? it wasn t such a big deal that he was taking the wine. rather the quantity is what people noted in the effect on him, because either he hadn t eaten march or he hadn t been sleeping well, and so everyone was noticing that he was not his best south on this particular day in the senate chambers. it s not so much the opium in your wine, it s just how much of it you are
carolyn harrison. we don t know what they were prescribed but ladnum was so common at the time that s hard to imagine that was one of the things that suggested. similarly, one of my favorite colorful stories occurred in 1805, when one of the first and only impeachment proceedings of a supreme court justice took place. john randolph was in charge of the prosecution of that case. he had such bad stomach issues that his doctor prescribed him opium laced wine. and he was in so much pain that he basically was taking a sip of this concoction in between every single sentence. and by the end of the trial he could barely stand and was slurring his words because he had taken so much of this, what they thought of then, as medication. so it just goes to show how much our understanding of these things have changed. we still have the impeachment proceedings but we don t have the opium laced wine. was it a big deal that he was taking opium laced wine at the time? or was it just, oh there he goes ag