we will uphold our oath, as public servants, it is my belief that our state be met or off for it. also this, week a judge ruling trump s georgia trial can be televised. so if willis gets the start date she wants, trump s georgia legal fight will be coming to a screen near you on october 23rd. the former president already has a trial date in washington d. c.. he will face off with federal prosecutors just one day before super tuesday, in the january 6th case, more than three years after the capitol riot. this comes as the doj secures some of the longest january 6th sentences yet, including ten years for a member of the proud boys, who smashed a window at the capitol. far-right extremist, dominic pezzola, cried in front of the judge, then pumped his fist and yelled, trump won, as he left court. that moment of defiance, sounding a lot like trump himself. the former president s social media rants still showing no remorse, even when a frenzy of 3am posts suggest he might be awak
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currently qualified to hold the office of president of the united states, or any elected office in the country for that matter? to start, let s go back 155 years to july 9th, 1868, went two years after passing the senate, the 14th amendment to the constitution is ratified. and within it, section three reads, quote, no person shall be a senator or representative in congress, or-elect or, or vice president, or vice president, or hold any office, civil or military, under the united states or under any state, who having previously taken an oath to support the constitution of the u.s. shall have engaged in insurrection or rebellion against the same, or given aid or comfort to the enemies thereof. donald trump having incited an insurrection and having tried to overturn the results of a free and fair election, in violation of the constitution of the united states, is now constitutionally ineligible to be president again. that seems pretty straightforward if you read your constitutio
on its face, a hearing this week that donald trump s former chief of staff mark meadows, product around what might sound like a sideshow legal issue compared to the larger problems facing the former president. he wants to move his case from state, to federal court. but we learned from his nearly four hours of questioning, it has implications far beyond a potential change of a new first trial. in addition to giving us the first sense of where the argument may be for a number of trump s other coconspirators, of which there are many. the testimony was another flashing warning sign of what a second trump term could look like. i mean, let s zero in on the key defense we heard from mark meadows. he argued that the allegations outlined in the indictment, you know, the unrelenting pursuit of baseless claims of election fraud, the pressure campaign and church officials to find votes? the conspiratorial behavior to keep trump in power? he says all of that was, quote, part of my role as
let s bring in barbara mcquade along with greg bluestein, msnbc political contributor for the atlanta journal-constitution. and author of flood, how georgia turned purple and broke the monopoly on republican power. greg, if you will, start us off. i mentioned the former president will be showing up. the arraignment will still go forward. what can we expect? in georgia defendants have the right to waive their arraignments. it s no surprise that at least a dozen of the co-defendants have already done so. that means they re gonna be bypassing with a packed courtroom, tv cameras rolling, they re bypassing logistics. it s not a huge surprise. what happens now as it ramps up the next phase of litigation. which is already underway. there s defendants who are trying to speed up trial, others that are trying to slow the trial down. there are these five that are trying to remove the case to the federal court. what we know now is that donald trump and his litigation strategy revolve