january, next year about four months from now, about the former president s lawyers proposed april 2026, not for another two years. they argue four months is not enough time. and that a january trial would interfere with the former president s other criminal cases. now, of course, this all will be playing out with the political calendar looming as a january trial date would be happening at the same time as the republican presidential primaries. now, in georgia, a federal judge is holding a hearing on former white house chief of staff mark meadows s request to move his case into federal court. meadows is one of five of 19 defendants in georgia trying to move their case and the former president expected to potentially file a similar motion. this is significant because it could affect the jury pool in a federal trial could include a broader spectrum of georgia residents that could lead to a more pro trump jury. the former president s lawyers are likely to be watching what
fani willis has subpoenaed for today is this georgia investigator francis watson. at one point mark meadows texted her looking for a way to speed up the fulton county signature verification ford to have the results before january 6th if the trump campaign can assist financially so i think fani willis is going to point to that and say, look, this is political, what he s doing. okay, so take a step back here. immediately after this case was brought, everybody was talking about moving from state to federal. why? what s the strategic advantage. if you are a defendant in the case, first of all, i think you ll like the jury pool more. if it stays state the entire jury pool will be drawn from fulton county which voted 26% only for donald trump in 2020. if you get it moved federal you ll be drawing from the northern district of georgia which includes cobb county which went 42% for trump, not great but better than 26 and cherokee went 68% for trump so you ll have a more pro-trump jury in th