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 I-Cal,

well then I am 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 conference is no longer necessary.

And that news comes right after Trump's legal team in another case, finally gave its answer

as to when they believe the former president

should go to trial.

Trump's team is arguing tonight that the federal 2020 election case brought by Special

Council Jack Smith should go to trial in April of 2026.

That is a whopping two years, seven months and 16 days from now.

It notably comes well after the point in which Trump could be back in office

and able to pardon himself or just make this case disappear altogether.

And his legal team's justification for this date is classically Trumpy.

Remember, if you will, when President Trump first took office and had to prove to everyone that he had disentangled himself from his business interests.

And he stood next to this giant pile of folders, there they are, and claimed they contained the evidence that he had signed everything over to his sons

Now Trump refused to let anyone actually look at the contents of those folders, but hey it was it was a lot of paper it was a lot of

folders and today the argument from his defense team felt a bit like that in

their formal formal legal filing, the defense included this graph showing the

height in feet of all the evidence Jack a lot taller than

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