i m katie phang in for chris hayes. tonight a development in the department of justice classified documents case against donald trump. it comes in the form of a filing from trump s coconspirator and codefendant, wall teen nauta. today, his lawyers try to get the first hearing in the documents case postponed indefinitely. they filed this motion, asking federal district court judge aileen cannon to delay the hearing scheduled to take place this friday, july 14th. they are claiming in this that the date just doesn t work, because now does lead, lawyer is scheduled to begin a trial for another client in washington d.c. this week. notably, that client is federico klein, former trump appointee at the state department who faces several charges in connection with his participation in the violent insurrection on january 6th. walt nauta s lawyers argued in the motion today that his local florida counsel cannot appear on her own because she just joined the case last week. these delays w
I m katie phang in for chris hayes. tonight a development in the department of justice classified documents case against donald trump. it comes in the form of a filing from trump s coconspirator and codefendant, wall teen nauta. today, his lawyers try to get the first hearing in the documents case postponed indefinitely. they filed this motion, asking federal district court judge aileen cannon to delay the hearing scheduled to take place this friday, july 14th. they are claiming in this that the date just doesn t work, because now does lead, lawyer is scheduled to begin a trial for another client in washington d.c. this week. notably, that client is federico klein, former trump appointee at the state department who faces several charges in connection with his participation in the violent insurrection on january 6th. walt nauta s lawyers argued in the motion today that his local florida counsel cannot appear
On her own because she just joined the case last week. these delays with nauta have been ongoing, in fact, he apparently struggled to find a local lawyer to represent him. delaying his arraignment for more than three weeks. on thursday, he finally pleaded not guilty to charges that he conspired with donald trump to obstruct and thwart the government s attempts to retrieve classified documents. the ex president illegally took from the white house. special counsel jack smith responded immediately to the request for a delay, with strong opposition to the continuance. arguing, quote, neither of nauta justification s is persuasive s. and an indefinite continuance is unnecessary, it will inject additional delay in this case, and it s contrary to the public interest. the special counsel also notes that nauta lead counsel still has not completed a necessary form in order to receive a
Need to make these rulings pretty quickly from this point on. kyle, let s talk about the practical implications of this. while not is not charged in this indictment to be dealing with any of the crimes that were the classified documents crimes, meaning not a is looking at obstruction, false statements, and concealing. so, really how critical is it for walt not to currently travel his case along with donald trump s case. do you think that we could be seeing a perhaps diverging in the road here later on, we re maybe nauta go to trial separately than donald trump. it s a great question, i think you re right in the sense that nauta it is dreaming of the classified evidence in this case, it is not as jermaine to the charges he faces. s so the question i have. we ll defendants it looks to me that the defendants aren t planning to go to this classified scheduling hearing, maybe it s a bit too pro forma for them to participate but we
Haven t got any indication that they waved their appearances that trump and now to themselves want to travel to attend this. and yet no one seems to be expecting they will. but he has-ness of a need to participate and that is just this aspect of the case that donald trump doesn t. he was the one who literally handled the classified documents, and reportedly took them to keep in his personal property and so yeah, i think it s more important for him and his team to understand the classify nature of these proceedings. kyle training, joyce vance, thank you for getting us started this evening. i appreciate it. and still to come. donald trump s legal lackey, jeffrey clark, tried to weaponize the doj to steal the election for donald trump, instead he got his phone seized by the fed and now he is facing possible disbarment over his crazy voter fraud theories and lies but jeffrey clark could be our next attorney general of the united states. new reporting on the growing alarm inside the justi