team wanted. judge chutkan here, he actually tried trump s lawyers for not already prepping for this possibility for a quick trial in just six months. she stressed, you know, they knew this investigation was ongoing with the special counsel. as she put it, a zealous attorney wouldn t have just been waiting in the wings for an indictment. they would have been prepping for. this trump s lawyer, though, john laurel, he shot back. he said that he has just recently taken on this case. and then john, he bluntly told the judge, he said, look, i won t be able to provide effective legal assistance with a trial date this soon in just six months. and this is actually likely trump s team probably setting up the stage for an eventual appeal. theyrobably won t be able to appeal this early trial date in their view at this
yesterday sally yates i mean, my god, she is a stand-up american citizen who did the right thing, you know, tried to do the right thing, was fired for it, and just decimated their arguments. they had to be afraid of that and the damage that that was doing, and theyrobably knew even last week if that s when they started collecting this information, you know, to try to put together the argument. i mean clearly they knew her testimony would be damaging. i think it s also suspicious obviously again, this deputy attorney general is in charge of the russia investigation. i do think that raises questions. and the last thing, though, that i think is most important, as americans we need to ask ourselves who will donald trump now put in this position? yep. because if he puts in this position someone who is beholden to him and will protect him over their responsibility to protect the american people, that is a big deal. that is something we should all be concerned about, and that s