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Deadline: White House

“Agreeing to commit a crime is a crime”

Deadline: White House

Nicolle Wallace, MS NOW

Politics, News, Ms Now, Government, Nicolle Wallace, Daily News, Msnbc, Versant, The White House, Washington Dc

4.56.4K Ratings

🗓️ 4 August 2023

⏱️ 85 minutes

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Summary

Alicia Menendez - in for Nicolle Wallace - discusses the bumbling legal arguments of the ex-president’s lawyers in his latest indictment, potential political fallout for both the ex-president and his opponents, updates in Fulton County DA Fani Willis’s investigation into the 2020 election as it appears to be wrapping up, Florida Governor Ron DeSantis’s violent rhetoric on the campaign trail, and more. Joined by: Neal Katyal, Glenn Kirschner, Katie Phang, Rev. Al Sharpton, Charlie Sykes, RonNell Andersen Jones, Dave Aronberg, Harry Litman, David Jolly, Tia Mitchell, and Eddie Glaude.

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0:00.0

Hi, everyone. It is 4 o'clock in New York. I'm Alicia Menendez in for Nicole Wallace.

0:12.2

There are now two federal cases involving the words, the United States versus Donald

0:17.3

J. Trump, both brought by special counsel Jack Smith, each making an extraordinary set

0:22.4

of allegations in his criminal probe into efforts to overturn the 2020 election, the 190th

0:28.5

person to be charged in connection with the insurrection, according to one count, is

0:32.9

a former president and a current frontrunner for the nomination of a major political

0:37.0

party who is already facing 74 criminal counts and stands accused of trying to defraud

0:42.2

the government that he led at that time, trying to obstruct the proceedings of a branch

0:47.3

of government and trying to overturn the will of millions of voters in the swing states

0:52.4

that determine the outcome of the electoral college.

0:55.3

The big question now that Trump has been booked and fingerprinted, what's next in this

0:59.8

case, which is really unlike any other in American history. Here's what team Trump has

1:04.3

plans, according to the New York Times. His lawyers use the arrangement to hint at one

1:08.3

of his central defense strategies, a request to delay a second pending federal trial

1:13.0

for months, if not years. Delaying the proceedings as much as possible is widely expected to

1:18.8

be part of Mr. Trump's legal strategy, given that he could effectively call off federal

1:23.1

cases against him if he wins the 2024 election. In recent days, the defendant and his lawyers

1:28.9

have been banging the drum about a change of venue, complaining about the impossibility

1:33.8

of getting a fair jury in D.C. And suggesting that deep red West Virginia is a reasonable

1:40.0

site for a trial. The New York Times reports the jury selection comes with a unique set

1:45.1

of challenges for Trump's attorneys, but not necessarily in the ways that they've been

1:49.3

suggesting. From that reporting quote, it's not just that the pool of potential jurors

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