Trial. And we get more evidence of defense footdragging in the maralago documents case. Also tonight, were on the scene of the enormous destruction in maui where some of the wildfires are thankfully being contained, but the proportions of this tragedy, including now dozens of lives lost, it just keeps growing. Later, Florida Governor ron desantis adds a new adversary to disney, School Liberians and the woke. This time school prosecutors. He is firing them, only he never hired them. The voters did. Well speak to the latest official to get the ax. Good evening. John berman here for anderson. Trying to for swift justice in what could become the most significant criminal trial ever in this country. If not unprecedented in its speed, then pretty nearly so. The defense in one way or another in this federal case and the other today say not so fast. Today the Special Counsels team asked for a january 2nd trial date in the Election Subversion case which it said could take as little as four week
scheduled for may. as you said, in this classified documents case. if all of these hearings continue and all of these delays and filings continue, it could very well get pushed from may, possibly even past the presidential election. john? and that may be part of the point. randi kaye, thank you very much. with us now, former trump attorney tim parlatore who currently represents bernie kerik. also with us elie honig, who has prosecuted his fair share of cases. and senior political correspondent and trump biographer maggie haberman. elie, i want to start with you. the proposed trial date of january 2nd. realistic or an opening bid? it s an opening bid. this is a remarkably aggressive opening bid. sort of wishful thinking on the prosecution s part. if they start this case in january, that would mean according to the prosecutor s request jury selection would start in mid-december that means donald trump s team would have four and a half months to get ready for trial that is close to