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
People would question whether she actually has her witnesses together, her evidence together. she is making it very clear that she is ready to go. now obviously, with the number of defendants that we have, there s going to be a lengthy pretrial motion, lengthy discovery process. but i think it s important to keep things moving, and i think the d. a. would want to keep things moving so that justice, whatever it may look like, based on the facts presented a trial, can be achieved expeditiously it s important, these each case needs to be viewed separately.
Actual trial jury, even when you have cameras in the courtroom, the judge orders that those cameras cannot show the juror s faces. they have to constantly be directed away from the jurors and in most instances the only juror that is known is the person who signs whether it is guilty or not guilty verdict so in that respect i think there are more protections or at least there aren t means in the code that require the disclosure of the grand jurors names, or of the jurors names in a trial. that seems, given the landscape, a fortunate thing. there s been a lot of back and forth about the proposed schedule that da fani willis has laid out. jeffrey clark, one of the co-defendants in this indictment, is saying that the arraignment for defendants, the week of september 5th and a trial on march 4th, they are concerned, jeffrey kirk is concerned about the political nature of this case and the
I can speak to about what it s like to be the d. a. in georgia, faced with presenting a case of this caliber, this complexity, but the key really is to stay focused on your oath, on the facts and the law, and that s exactly what d. a. willis is doing. gwen keyes fleming, thank you as always for your time and thoughts. great to see you. my pleasure. when we come back, some new reporting about the presidential campaign of florida governor ron desantis. some new reporting on that campaign reminds us of this very odd video of republican senator mitch mcconnell that was taken nearly ten years ago. here it is. there he is. stick around for the explanation why. that s coming up next. mr. clean magic eraser powers