Judge sets May 2024 trial date for Donald Trump in documents case

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🗓️ 22 July 2023

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The federal judge presiding over former President Trump’s classified documents case has scheduled his trial for May 2024. That’s months after the December request by special counsel Jack Smith. If that May timeline holds, the trial would fall deep in the 2024 race for the White House and would be during multiple Republican presidential primaries. Journalists and authors Bob Woodward and Carl Bernstein join AC360 to discuss the effect a trial during an election year could have on the race and the other ongoing Trump investigations. Plus, singer, songwriter, and actor Josh Groban tells AC360 about working with the legendary Tony Bennett, who died at the age of 96.

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0:00.0	Tonight, the former president's legal slate grows as a judge sets a trial date in the
0:06.5	document's case, one of four civil and criminal trials.
0:10.2	Donald Trump now faces with two more still in the cards.
0:13.9	Also, Josh Groben joins us to remember Tony Bennett, who could swing with the best,
0:18.0	saying even better and kept right on doing it for eight decades, even in the depths of
0:23.2	Alzheimer's.
0:24.2	And later, surprising, look at what happens when a Republican long shot, Vivek Ramaswamy,
0:28.7	was looking for support in a sea of Trump voters.
0:31.8	Good evening.
0:32.8	John King here, in for Anderson tonight, and starting us off, the former president gets
0:37.1	a date.
0:38.1	It's one he'd hoping had been hoping would be never.
0:41.0	And as we will detail tonight, he's still trying to put it off past the next election.
0:45.5	But today, federal judge Aileen Cannon said Trump's trial on 37 document-related felony
0:50.2	counts could begin as early as the 20th of next May, with a preliminary hearing the
0:55.4	week before.
0:56.6	These lawyers wanted it postponed indefinitely.
0:59.6	Special counsel Jack Smith was asking for this December.
1:02.4	In splitting the difference, Judge Cannon also had to thread her way between three other.
1:07.8	Federal and state, civil and criminal trials, the former president is facing this October,
1:12.8	next January.
1:13.9	And then again in March.
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