Across the networks of nbc news, thanks for staying up late. Well see you at the end of tomorrow. Tomorrow thank you all for joining us at this hour. We have breaking news tonight, as i just mentioned. If your calendar was marked for this coming monday, when President Trump was set to hold a Press Conference that he promised would exonerate him from the allegations laid out in that Fulton County indictment, if that was a date that was reserved on your eye calla, well im sorry to inform you, that it has been called off. Trump says tonight that his legal team is instead putting all of the overwhelming evidence informal legal filings. He adds, therefore, the News Conference is no longer necessary. That news comes right after trumps legal team and another case finally gave its answer as to when they believe the former president should go to trial. Trumps team is arguing tonight that the federal 2020 election case brought by special counsel jack smith should go to trial in April Of 2026. Th
Chance to get around, i dont know if you guys have, but theres a major data in the amount of paper theyre dealing with. Oh, its coming up. We got a full screen to that. I hadnt intuition that would be there. Thats a tease. Look at that. Come on, when you see stocks of paper compared to National Monuments you know were going to full screen that. You at home are going to get you to that in this a few seconds. Thank you my friend. You bet. Thank you all for joining us this hour. We have breaking news tonight, as i just mentioned, if your calendar was marked for this coming monday when President Trump was set to hold his conference if he would promise would exonerate him from the allegations laid out in that Fulton County indictments, if that was a date that was reserved on your eye kyle, im sorry to inform you that it has been called off. Trump says tonight that his legal team is instead putting all of the overwhelming evidence in formal legal filings. He adds, therefore, the News Confere
Phone about the moment of paper theyre dealing with. Its coming up. I had an intuition that would be there. When you see stacks of paper compared to national monuments, and you at home are going to get treated to that in just a few seconds. Thank you, my friend. You bet. Thank you all for joining us this hour. We have breaking news tonight as i just mentioned. If your calender was marked for this coming monday when President Trump was set to hold a Press Conference he was promised would exonerate him from the allegations laid out in that Fulton County indictment, if that was a date reserved on your ical, im sorry to inform you it has been called off. Trump says tonight his legal team is instead putting the overwhelming evidence in formal legal filings. He adds, therefore the News Conference is no longer necessary. That news comes right after trumps legal team in another case finally gave its answer as to when they believe the former president should go to trial. Trumps team is arguing
deranged jack smith at the doj. the fake political indictment against me must be immediately withdrawn. the system is rigged and corrupt very much like the presidential election of 2020, and we have plenty of proof on that. does that count of stuff count as the type of arguably ambiguous statements that might be perceived as threats? joining me now to get to the bottom of all that is barbara mcquade, former attorney for the eastern district of michigan, as well as mark looeb witch. have you ever seen an argument similar to this one complete with a graphic showing how the discovery evidence would measure up to the statue of liberty? no, and i have not seen a defendant so desperate to delay the trial they re asking for a date more than two years down the road. it s a really audacious request. it s not only the defendant that has a right to a speedy trial,
they talk about how the government is offering its own edit of relevant documents and saying we shouldn t have to go by our accuser s selection of what s relevant. do they have a point here in any of this filing that the judge will listen to, that could cause a judge to actually say you know what january is far too soon, i m going to give you i don t know july? do you see any relevant points here that are going to give the judge pause when she schedules the trial date? sure. and i think jack smith tried to accommodate those things as well. 70 days is usually the first trial date that gets issued, but january is still, what, five months away inbut no doubt there are issues that i think could cause a judge to believe that more time is necessary than that. as you point out, the small amount of classified information is one thing that they will have to deal with. we don t know exactly what that is, but people may need clearances. they need to figure out how they re going to handle that,