Point is to show exactly what did meadows do, who did he talk to, what was he asking, because just because he was the chief of staff for the president just doesn t mean, well, he gets this special treatment, right? and really what fani willis office, what their argument is is what he was doing was really in violation of the law, not in terms of the indictment, but the hatch act, right? when you are can t use your public office. right. you cannot even be for personal gain. or any kind of electioneering or political activity. you can t say i was doing this political activity and electioneering but i was the chief of staff, therefore i get the protection. it falls outside of that. given your extensive experience of fulton count why as a prosecutor there, october 23rd is the trial start if they get it because one of the lawyers wants a speedy trial, which defendants have a right to, fani willis team all ready
For that, no problem? listen, after 25 years of experience in that office, and having worked personally with fani willis, i can tell you that her team is ready and prepared to go. they were ready for trial when the indictment was handed down. those folks have got their witnesses lined up, and they have got their trial notebooks all set and when october comes, they ll be prepared. and a bit of quick insight. the fact that there are 19 people on this indictment, under rico, this is not unprecedented for this office. d.a. willis and myself, a few years ago, had a rico case in which 35 individuals were indicted under rico. 21 of those individuals entered into negotiated guilty pleas and accepted responsibility and testified during the trial with
Co-defendants with meddling in the 2020 georgia presidential election loss. on thursday, the district attorney filed a motion requesting a trial date of october 23rd, 2023. that date was set after kenneth chesebro, the co-defendant, considered the architect of the fake electors plot, requested a speedy trial as his right. his trial is set to begin on that date. and more activity overnight as the co-defendants continue to turn themselves in, including former department of justice official jeffrey clark. two co-defendants remain and they have just hours left to surrender. fani willis has given the noon deadline today for that to happen. victor, poppy. nick valencia outside the jail for us, thank you. a lot to get to with our team, national politics team leader for bloomberg mario parker with us at the table, with political reporter for the atlanta journal constitution patricia murphy, former
Those costs. let s talk about what s coming very soon, this first trial of kenneth chesebro who initially the request from the d.a. was for march of 2024. kenneth chesebro s attorney said i want a speedy trial, which forced the hand of the d.a. to schedule, what, by the end of november? well, the beginning of november. the second term. but, you know, we were discussing before, the expectation likely was that there was no way d.a. willis and her team is going to be ready to proceed. expected to be a bluff. a bluff. and when that bluff is called, that s problematic. i was a prosecutor as well and criminal defense attorney now, very often with these felony indictments, the time is your friend. what can happen is many intervening factors, a witness doesn t become available anymore or a change in that testimony or some intervening factor we can t even contemplate, so time is often your friend. there is no advantage, especially with this magnitude of evidence that testimony and what is
Aggressively. what is the strategy behind a bluff even? you hope they re not ready and prepared even if they re not ready and prepared and so many moving pieces, that can favor you as a defendant. part of the issue is that this is a particular thing under georgia law. if fani willis office wasn t ready and could not go to trial, mr. chesebro would be acquitted as a matter of law. explain that more. if she can t get this if she can t get this by october, by the 23rd of october or by the 1st of november, if she can t start trial by then, he automatically gets a pass. that is so interesting. statutory. it is statutory. so it is meant to mirror kind of the protections under the constitution. so whether she for a defendant. right. whether she was ready or not, they re going to have to go. and so that s why it is kind of an interesting move by her attorneys, specifically her attorney scott grubman. is this the is this the