Welcome to the beat.

I'm Ari Melber.

We're tracking the push for speedy trials for defendant Trump and his co-defendants.

New today, Trump's Rico prosecutor in the Atlanta case, D.A. Willis, formally moving

to fast track all of the 19 defendants in that racketeering case.

So after the judge scheduled October 23rd for this gentleman, you see in his mug shot,

former Trump lawyer Ken Chisbrough, the new motion basically pushes the judge to go past

the leeway given to other co-defendants and apply basically those fast track deadlines

to everyone, asking the court to set aside that leeway for other defendants saying those

deadlines do not apply to other co-defendants.

So if you want to translate that, it is legal speak for saying if the D.A. wins this

effort, the fast deadlines will apply to everyone.

That prospect has Trump's current lawyers concerned, which we know because just yesterday,

were in federal court with Jack Smith, emphatically arguing that a fast trial would become an unfair

show trial insisting the events leading up to January 6th are complex and require years of

preparation, and they were saying that about one federal coup case.

Trump faces two related coup cases in these different jurisdictions, of course,

and two other additional cases, two other trials.

Now this is a fact that also came up in court, so many pending criminal trials that

these judges are now independently discussing scheduling the cascade of trials.

So this was, in that federal courtroom, as special counsel Smith looked on, the federal judge

said she already had conferred with the New York judge saying, quote,

...