Thanks to you at home for joining us this hour, I am Jonathan Capehart in for Alex tonight.

Today, the 2024 political calendar got a little more complicated.

The judge in former president Trump's Mar-a-Lago classified documents case has set a trial

date.

May 20th, 2024.

The government expects that trial to last somewhere in the range of 21 to 60 days, and

will come just a few months after Trump's New York hush money trial starts in March.

We don't know how long that case will last, but both of those criminal cases against

the former president come smack dab in the middle of the 2024 political calendar.

Both are after the bulk of the Republican primaries, but before the general election.

And if that calendar seems full now, give it a couple of weeks.

We are all on indictment watch, waiting for a charging decision from special counsel

Jack Smith in his investigation into Trump's efforts to overturn the 2020 election.

And Jack Smith only has a week left if he wants to indict Trump in that case before faulting

County District Attorney Fawni Willis comes to a charging decision in her investigation

into Trump's efforts to overturn the 2020 election in Georgia.

C.A. Willis has indicated that she expects to announce that charging decision as soon

as a week from Monday.

So the clock is ticking.

Now, I know the entire country is watching every move Jack Smith makes right now.

We even got full press coverage of how he bought a sandwich at Subway this week.

And that level of public interest makes sense.

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