next year. but, overall, as you look at especially the numbers from the associated press poll that you highlighted at the beginning ever the segment, bret, the vast majority of independents in this country and swing voters poll after 308 has shown and election results have shown they are over all the relitigation, stop the steal, 2020, january 6th, looking back. they don t want any part of that. and for donald trump to win a general election, it s going to be a huge challenge if the election cycle is dominated by the democrats, by the media and in some respects by trump with these backward looking discussions of something that is absolutely radioactive to most voters. bret: impossible not to go back to discussions because legal cases are in your face. if all goes as planned, january 2nd could be the first trial on the january 6th issue 13 days before the iowa caucuses. it s certainly going to be a pop pick of conversation and the president has made clear that he has no plans to mov
what are the biggest complications that you see? if the attorneys want to go state-by-state and relitigate all of the election theories and conspiracies? is in the preponderance of evidence what jack smith already has? they are the ones putting on the case now. it is not a case of relitigation. the question is what the data is. imagine how bid the january 6th report is. how much discovery will be here? i think the special counsel tried to narrow this as much as possible like they did before but it is still a lot of data. and that will still have to be turned over and contested. in addition your previous speakers said the issue is not who is mentioned in the indictment. it is also the issue of who is
to have cameras in this courtroom. i want to ask about something you said in terms of the relitigation of the election claims. they went 0 for 6 in their court cases. have at it. it would probably be valuable for the country. that s clear ly a strategy. there s a piece talking about how trump s lawyers are focused on talking about it. why? one of their defenses, we don t know what they are going to pick, but one of them that they already telegraphed is this notion of it was awful but lawful. you may not like my politics or style or like what my lawyer rudy giuliani and some of my other attorneys do, and yes, we are strong arming people, we are lying to the public. it s pretty awful. politics can be awful, but we didn t cross the line. if that s going to be the case, i think they are going to put it out there. i think the public, a certain segment of the public will recoil from it.
merrick garland. merrick garland and the biden administration had to sign off on this indictment. and what they have really done is invited now a relitigation of 2020. but this time in a criminal court, which is unprecedented. no sitting president has ever been criminally charged for his views, for taking a position. and, by the way, is there any doubt there is two systems of justice in the united states? was for the russian hoax? were those individuals who said don t worry about the biden the biden laptop because it is just russian disinformation? are they being prosecuted? no. only one person in america is being prosecuted for his political believes. and that should send a chill, a warning, to every single american who one day wants to get up and say this is what i believe in. i disagree with the biden administration but these are the beliefs i have. because every person who does that now is subject to potential criminal case. bret: last thing. according to this indictment,
open up everything for relitigation. i think a judge could easily control that but it depends on what they re focusing on in those charges. and it could be more than those three charges as well. absolutely. one of the things we were hearing from people who sympathize with the former president is the impact this have being prosecuted in the district of columbia, assuming this prosecution and this indictment actually comes to light in the coming days, we don t know what s ing to happen here. t jonathan turley a conservative lawyer, someone who has argued in trump s defense on a lot of occasions he said trump would face arguably thworst jury pool in the country. he lost the 2020 presidential vote in the district of columbia receiving a mere 5.4% of the vote that means finding a trump supporter in the district jury pool is only slightly more than finding a snow leopard. how do you think this impacts the trump legal team strategy here? there s always going to be politics that the tr