Judge sets date for Trump DC federal election subversion trial
Anderson Cooper 360
CNN
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🗓️ 29 August 2023
⏱️ 43 minutes
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Summary
Federal Judge Tanya Chutkan set former President Trump’s trial for his alleged role in trying to overturn the 2020 presidential election for March 4, 2024. The date is just one day before Super Tuesday, when voters in more than a dozen states will go to the polls. CNN Legal Analyst Carrie Cordero joins AC360 to discuss the judge’s trial date decision. Plus, CNN Meteorologist Chad Myers on where Tropical Storm Idalia is headed and when it’s expected to become a hurricane.
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| 0:00.0 | Tonight on 360, a federal judge says Donald Trump's election subversion trial should start |
| 0:07.5 | a day before the biggest election day of the Republican primary. |
| 0:12.4 | Stunning admissions from Mark Meadows in his effort to get his trial moved to a federal |
| 0:16.4 | court, also tonight a sad note on the anniversary of Dr. King's March on Washington new details |
| 0:22.8 | including video and the racist shooting that took three black lives in Jacksonville this |
| 0:27.6 | weekend. |
| 0:28.9 | And so a new update in Adalia now expected to become a major hurricane and on track |
| 0:33.6 | to hit Florida, seeing its Chad Myers in the weather center tracking it. |
| 0:38.6 | Good evening everyone, John Berman here in Ferrandeson, whoever first said there is |
| 0:42.3 | a time and place for everything could not have imagined a day like today. |
| 0:46.6 | The first of many it appears in the battle over when to try Donald Trump and company |
| 0:51.8 | and where. |
| 0:52.8 | Today in Washington, federal district judge Tanya Chuck can put the former president's |
| 0:56.7 | election subversion trial on a fast track on a core calendar packed with other Trump |
| 1:02.1 | trials. |
| 1:03.1 | And in Atlanta, former White House chief of staff, Mark Meadows took the stand trying |
| 1:06.9 | to get his Fulton County Georgia trial moved to federal court. |
| 1:10.0 | We're going to have more on that in just a moment. |
| 1:12.5 | First judge Chuck in setting a trial date of March 4th of next year, rejecting special |
| 1:17.3 | counsel Jack Smith's January 2nd date and team Trump's proposal for April 2026, look |
| 1:23.6 | at that calendar. |
| 1:24.6 | Yes. |
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