After months of delays and closed door hearings, the classified documents case against

former President Donald Trump has been officially and indefinitely delayed by Judge

Aline Cannon.

Our William Bringham takes a deeper look now at where things stand.

William.

I'm not to many this is considered the strongest clearest cut case against the former president.

Trump is charged with 40 counts of taking classified documents and obstructing efforts

to get them back.

Special counsel Jack Smith's indictments show boxes full of highly secret materials sitting

unsecured in ballrooms and bathrooms and closets at Trump's private club and home,

Maralago. There's an audio recording of Trump admitting he

still retained classified war plans. Smith alleges Trump tried to destroy video

evidence of how the documents were moved around to evade federal

investigators. But now a trial that was supposed to start in two weeks is

indefinitely on hold. Critics blame the judge overseeing this case, Eileen Cannon, who was

appointed by Donald Trump, for pushing this case well past the election. Mary McCord is

director of Georgetown University's Institute for Constitutional Advocacy and Protection.

She is also a former Justice Department official.

Mary, so good to have you back on the program. Do you think that this is a fair accusation that the

principal reason that this case is now likely not going to ever get tried before this election is because of the judge and if so

what's your evidence for that?

I'd say it's a combination of the delay strategy by Mr. Trump on his co-defendants and a judge who has

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