good evening once again, i.m. stephanie ruhle. we have got a lot to cover. so, let s get started. because tonight we are going to georgia where the former president has entered officially a not guilty plea in a case accusing him of racketeering over efforts to overturn the 2020 election. donald trump s attorneys have requested to sever his case from the codefendants, who have demanded a speedy trial. that s right, he does not want a speedy trial. the lead investigator for the january 6th committee says more time might not help trump in this case. he is the leader of this conspiracy, and every single other act in that indictment it s going to be ascribed to him, his knowledge of it, his affirmative support of it with very few exceptions. so, a trial against kenneth chesebro, a trial against sidney powell. we all involve evidence about the former presidents awareness of, leadership of that conspiracy. so, it is bad for him, in the court of public opinion. the more the story i
that georgia case involving donald trump s alleged efforts to overturn the election. sydney powell, this woman, asked the court to separate her case from the other 19 defendants in the trial. their lawyers claimed sydney powell, quote, has no substantive connection to any other defendant regarding the incharges in the indictment, end quote, and therefore should be tried alone. that is to put it mildly a difficult case to make. powell seen here standing alongside rudy giuliani in front of a campaign sign for the codefendant for donald trump, at that meeting they considered making sydney powell a special counsel so that she could investigate the election. but now her lawyers say she doesn t really know any of those folks. another codefendant in the georgia case, this man kenneth chesebro has also filed a motion to sever his file from the others. mr. chesebro would like the court to release the names of 30 coconspirators in the indictment. there are 30 of them not named. fani wi
away. and i think of the spike lee movie. you have the film cue and he is watching somebody move. and they are pulling him along in the streets as he s about to be assassinated. i think of all those different moments. you re right. not only was that the issue. today is also the day that thurgood marshall was sworn in as supreme court justice. an icon and role model like that. unbelievable. the echoes of history. have a great show. thank you so much. we re going to talk about that later. good evening, everyone. i m laura coates. frankly, there s one big headline after another tonight. we got the tale of two courtrooms. one s in fulton county, georgia, the other, washington, d.c. and here we are on this 60th anniversary of the march on washington, learning new details about the latest racially motivated shootings in jacksonville. we re going to step back tonight. we re going to examine all with professor michael eric dyson and get his take on the context. plus, we ll bring
instead, he will be sitting in a federal courthouse on trial for federal charges, while republican voters decide if this is the man they want to nominate. we ll have more on the federal case in just a little bit including all the politics and what it means. but, there was another major legal development involving the ex president today as well. big legal day. we ve got some big news out of georgia, this afternoon involving trump s white house chief of staff mark meadows. now, we all know meadows in his position as trump s right-hand man was this telling the attempted coup. his own top aide told the january six committee as much, including meadows apparent role in the plan for trump to lead his followers to the capitol for the insurrection itself. on january 3rd, mr. had approach me knowing that mark had raised the process of going up to the capitol on january 6th. mr. cipollone and me had a brief private conversation where he said to me we need to make sure this does no
election interference case is moving to a pivotal phase. all 19 defendants, including former president donald trump, have now surrendered to fulton county authorities and district attorney fani willis is setting the stage for trial. the day she told all the defense attorneys that her office is ready to share evidence, as she is putting for arrangements to begin the week of september 5th, right after labor day. still, no decision on the judge from that. meanwhile, trump s codefendants in the georgia case are making their own moves. today, his former campaign lawyer, sydney powell, filed a motion for a speedy trial. she is accused of promoting false claims of ballot fraud in the 2020 election. powell joins chesbrough in demanding a speedy trial. he was allegedly a key architect of the fake electors scheme. tonight, political reports that three trump codefendants say they became fake electors because the former president and his campaign lawyers told them to. with all of this, a