my office will seek a speedy trial in this matter, consistent with the public interest and the rights of the accused. trump on trial in august? the first court date is officially set, and it is just eight weeks away. tonight, what it all means for the possibility of a trial before the election and, the motives of the trump appointed judge in charge of it. then after a five year investigation by a trump appointed prosecutor, hunter biden strikes a deal. if trump cooperated with the justice department he might have avoided the situation he is in right now. he chose not to, because he s arrogant and does not care about the law. plus, the impact of the indictment on the polls, and the inability of the republican front runner to just stop talking. you lost the 2020 election but when all in it starts right now good evening from new york, i m chris hayes. and we have an initial trial date in the trump florida documents case. just one week after donald tru
my office will seek a speedy trial in this matter, consistent with the public interest and the rights of the accused. trump on trial in august? the first court date is officially set, and it is just eight weeks away. tonight, what it all means for the possibility of a trial before the election and, the motives of the trump appointed judge in charge of it. then after a five year investigation by a trump appointed prosecutor, hunter unlikely that the august 14th start date, the one that is two months from today, will hold. it s fairly common practice for a judge to set an early start date as a sort of benchmark, only to see the trial slip further and further down the calendar. the prosecution needs time to prepare its arguments, and trump s lawyers deserve time to mount a reasonable defense of their client. the defense has not yet received, for instance, the classified evidence as part of the discovery process, something which, on its own, could had significant
heavily on the low trust paranoid environment we increasingly find ourselves in. i don t think his presidential bid as such is particularly noteworthy. i don t think he has much of a shot. one important thing i want to discuss, though, is that the vaccine scaremongering that he has made his career for the last 15 years or more, along with the same kind of lying from people like tucker carlson, has had just, really unfathomable human cost. it has likely result in many thousands of people, tens of thousands of people, not getting vaccinated during the coronavirus, and many, many deaths. keep in mind, the united states vaccination rate lags behind many of our peer countries. . the purple line, all the way at the bottom, is the u.s. vax rate. our country is, with uk, at the top of the corona virus deaths, compared to poor nations. there s a lot of stuff that, not just our vaccination rate. but the low vaccination rate is driving a significant portion of the excess mortality.
paranoid environment we increasingly find ourselves in. i don t think his presidential bid as such is particularly noteworthy. i don t think he has much of a shot. one important thing i want to discuss, though, is that the vaccine scaremongering that he has made his career for the last 15 years or more, along with the same kind of lying from people like tucker carlson, has had just, really unfathomable human cost. it has likely result in many thousands of people, tens of thousands of people, not getting vaccinated during the coronavirus, and many, many deaths. keep in mind, the united states vaccination rate lags behind many of our peer countries. . the purple line, all the way at the bottom, is the u.s. vax rate. our country is, with uk, at the top of the corona virus deaths, compared to poor nations. there s a lot of stuff
overall is largely than any other gap. it larger than the gap between the old and the young, in whom we see unexpected gap. partisanship is more powerful than anything else. and you can t explain that without the responsibility of republican and conservative elites in broadcasting this message that endangers the people who trust them. yes, and one other theory we can raise and dispose of is the sincerely held view from rupert murdoch on down. we know that s not true. rupert murdoch was one of the first people on earth to get it. fox news has a regimental protocol around vaccination, they have a vaccination passport, essentially. they have been working in remote studios. and everyone there, it s like a 95% vax rate. this is a network where it clearly matters in how they act, they believe in vaccination. but that s not the message you get on tv. and the only thing the thing i think you can divine is that