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points of drunk legal advice later in this hour, after we begin with a sober assessment of the breaking legal news of the day in georgia. at two pm today, federal judge steve see jones issued an order to both sides of the case after hearing a full day of testimony yesterday, and defended mark meadows motion to move his criminal trial from fulton county courthouse, in georgia, to the federal district court, in georgia. judge jones ordered fulton county district attorney fani willis and mark meadows criminal defense lawyers to each file a brief by five pm on thursday, answering exactly one question that the judge has after that hearing. would a finding that at least one, but not all, of the overt acts charged occurred under the color of meadows s office, be sufficient for federal removal of a criminal prosecution? we will get the answer to that question in a moment from our legal experts. less than an hour after the federal judge issued that order, district attorney fani ....
not apply to the other co-defendants. we re seeing a request that the trial go forward starting on october the 23rd. i want to get to our reporters and our legal experts now. to make sense of this because this is my interpretation of it which could prove to be entirely incorrect. but i got glenn kirshner. this came out about a minute before the show started. so i don t know if you had a chance to read it or make sense of it. but tell me what you know. i had your producer read it into my ear just moments ago, ali. so i think i understand what is going on here. so under georgia state law, a speedy trial means that a defendant should be taken to trial during the present term of court or the next term of court. that would be the end of october. we already know that defendant ken cheesebro has been set for october 23rd. we know sidney powell made a speedy trial and we assume she ll be batched together with ken cheesebro. that is the natural thing to do. batch co-defendants ....
special prosecutor jack smith s investigators asked gradually witnesses in washington d. c. how drunk rudolph giuliani was when he was advising donald trump? it is a crucial, legal question for the trump defense team who have already said they intend to use and advice of counsel defense blaming everything donald trump did on the advice he got from lawyers including the one who, to me, looked and sounded drunk every time he spoke publicly about the presidential election in 2020, and on january 6th. we will discuss the finer legal points of drunk legal advice later in this hour, after we begin with a sober assessment of the breaking legal news of the day in georgia. at 2 pm today, federal judge steve c. jones issued an order to both sides of the case after hearing a full day of testimony yesterday, and defended mark meadows motion to move his criminal trial from fulton county courthouse, in georgia, to the federal district court, in georgia. judge jones ordered fulton cou ....
wants, again out on. bond after securing another first in american history. the only current or former united states president of his mugshot taken. on thursday, night trump was booked and arrested at the fulton county jail for his alleged role in georgia s election interference case. and it s taken no time for him to capitalize on his surrender. he returned to x, formerly known as twitter for the first time since january of 2021. blasting out a photo of his mugshot and directing users to his campaign website for donations. meanwhile, all of trump s 18 co-defendants have turned themselves in. for most of, them it was a quick stop at the jail except for harrison floyd. who is just denied bond and a hearing yesterday. and the calendars of some of these codefendants are filling up. fast on, monday an evidentiary hearing is scheduled for trump s ex chief of staff, mark meadows, pushing to get his case moved to federal court. and within the last 24 hours ex trump lawyer sydn ....