Weekend. We are still here. Prosecutors carefully laid out the plans to put donald trump on trial, and those plans have nearly all been appended with less than eight months until election day. Politico said its conceivable trump could face a jury in two or three of the cases before the year is out. Each day that passes makes cramming multiple trials into 2024 unlikely. We are starting a lookat what comes next in georgia, florida, new york, and washington, d. C. , as the clock keeps ticking towards november. Joining us is msnbc legal analyst mary mccord, the form from the Justice Department and cohost of an amazing podcast. Also with us is palm beach state attorney dave aronberg. Perhaps we need to take the party to miami next time. Right now here with mary in washington, and thank you for being here. If you can just do us sort of a Scene Setting for us about where the State Of Play in the cases are, my contention has been for some time that donald trump was going to use this system to
i m erin burnett. outfront tonight caught in a lie. new video from the january 6th select committee, sworn testimony from trump s acting defense secretary chris miller contradicts a statement from president trump. he said he personally asked for 20,000 national guard troops to be at the ready ahead of january 6th. this is what the defense secretary told the committee exactly happened. to be crystal clear there was no direct order from president trump to put 20,000 troops on the ready for january 6th, correct? you re correct. there was no order from the president. that shutting down a statement from trump who on june 9th said the unselect committee learned that i as president offered up to 20,000 national guard troops be deployed in d.c. because it was felt the crowd was going to be very large. well, you heard the secretary of defense say he did no such thing. whether 10 or 20,000, he never ordered any. this blatant lie exposed as we learn more from attorney general me
In the 2020 election. even as the fulton county district attorney appears poised to charge criminally, this week a major misstep. the optics are horrific. reporter: a judge on monday blocking willis from pursuing a case against burt jones, a republican state senator who is running to be georgia s lt. governor. it s not a lower case a appearance. it s like a capital a with flashing lights. fundraiser for an opponent of someone i ve targeted in my investigation. reporter: it could now impact the overall case. a new district attorney could be assigned to question jones, if needed, which could create problems. the prosecuting attorney s counsel of georgia who could appoint the special d.a. says no