to be the day before the first 2024 super tuesday primaries for the republican presidential contest. this is also before the proposed trial dates for two other of his criminal trials. let s get straight to paula reed for us. walk us through the scheduling proposal here. reporter: the key word is proposal. this is her request. she said in her press conference that she wants to try all 19 defendants together, and she wanted to do that in six months. but jake, it s a pretty aggressive timeline. six months to put on a rico case? these are notoriously complicated, tend to be drawn out. and then you have 19 defendants. at least three of whom are expected to challenge this, try to get it moved to federal court. so it s unlikely this is going to be granted. she s also competing for real estate on a very crowded calendar. let s start with january of next year. there is a request by the special counsel to do the january 6th trial the first week of january. then you have the e. jean c
unfortunately. listen, lawrence, by monday is free and now apparently my april of the year 2026 is booked. don t be surprised if it happens before that, alex. okay, i won t be. thank you, alex. have a good show. thank you. imagine how terrifying donald trump, how terrified he has to be for him to follow the advice of his lawyers. that s how terrified donald trump s tonight. for the first time. the breaking not surprising news of the night is that donald trump was forced to announce that he will not be having a special press event on monday to, as he put it, refute the 13 criminal charges against him delivered by a georgia grand jury on monday. in a written statement tonight, donald trump said rather than releasing the report on the rigged and stolen georgia 2020 presidential election on monday my lawyers would prefer putting this, i believe, irrefutable and overwhelming evidence of election fraud and irregularities informal legal filings as we fight to dismiss thi
tonight s last word is exaggerating, that is what the defendant giuliani now calls lying. that is tonight s last word. the 11th hour with stephanie ruhle starts now. tonight, the new scheduling proposal from donald trump s legal team, hoping for a trial in april of 2026. this as the former president and current defendant is back on the campaign trail. and with less than one week until the first republican debate, we now know how allies of ron desantis want him to deal with trump. then seized, but not silenced, pick kansas news paper raided by police. the publisher and editor of the is here as the 11th hour gets underway on this thursday night.
tonight s last word is exaggerating, that is what the defendant giuliani now calls lying. that is tonight s last word. the 11th hour with stephanie ruhle starts now. tonight, the new scheduling proposal from donald trump s legal team, hoping for a trial in april of 2026. this as the former president and current defendant is back on the campaign trail. and with less than one week until the first republican debate, we now know how allies of ron desantis want him to deal with trump. then seized, but not silenced, pick kansas news paper raided by police. the publisher and editor of the is here as the 11th hour gets underway on this thursday night.
Government says 4 to 6 weeks to try its case. defendants cases are usually significantly shorter. but that block of time will have to be set aside, just like anyone else has a job or has commitments. when they are put on criminal trial, this is not a voluntary exercise for donald trump. yeah. it s interesting because again, i do think, this is me bending over backwards, fairness on behalf of the republican party. it s one of two major parties. they re gonna have a nomination contest. the nightmare scenario is, you only counted, or he gets a nomination and right out of wrapping up the delegates, goes to sit in this trial with, you ve got a guy who s the nominee and they re gonna find out what happens to him. that seems like a bad idea from a sort of public interest standpoint. it does seem like the folks who may like this scheduling proposal the most would-be folks in the republican party. i m sure we won t hear them say that out loud. but look, it s complicated when