involving trump's storage of classified documents at mar-a-lago, today, his lawyers asked judge aileen cannon for that trial to start after the 2024 presidential election, citing the many other trials trump faces, in the impossibility of being, quote, in two places at once. and then, in the other federal criminal case, involving trump's efforts to overthrow the 2020 election, trump lawyers are trying to get that case dismissed altogether. they argued, trump's efforts to subvert democracy were actually, quote, efforts to ensure election integrity, and are therefore, protected under

the one place this seems like it could work is obviously in florida because aileen cannon seems to beudge, at least her past history suggests she might be. this attempt to push the trial until after the election because they can't get their hands on enough of the evidence, your thoughts on that. >> yeah, you know, this would be a really interesting test for aileen cannon. i think that she appropriately caused some to doubt her impartiality when she ruled the way she did on allowing donald trump to challenge the search warrants at mar-a-lago before any criminal charges were brought. but i don't love this idea of there are trump judges and obama judges and biden judges. i like the think judges work hard to apply the law fairly and evenly. here, i think they have to make out a case why this case can't go in march very specifically based on what they want to access, why they can't access it, how much time they really need, and be very particularly in the finding. to simply blanketly say after the election, that's good enough, is not the rigor we would expect a judge to apply to a decision

judge aileen cannon has not yet pushed out those deadlines.t she's done is stay all the deadlines so she can consider the larger request to push them out by several months or even perhaps until after the november '24 election, which is what trump's attorneys said in a filing yesterday. i think we can infer from that and the fact that aileen cannon has not acted with all deliberate haste so far, as contrast with judge tanya chutkan in d.c., that she is strongly considering whether or not she should either move a bunch of pretrial deadlines by several months, which would elongate the trial schedule, or is considering the whole kit and caboodle, and moving it until after the election. >> what would be the argument to move it back so far? is it because there's so much classified information and the process would take so long? >> my understanding is that the motion is requesting a delay based on what the defense says are failures on the part of the government to provide them with adequate access to the information, including in florida, in a place

m., trump criminal defense lawyers asked their favorite judge, aileen mercedes cannon, who was appointed by donald trump to delay the trial, in the classified documents case six months so that it wouldn't begin before november of next year. that would get the trial to

again, they've made this request before to judge aileen cannon, and while she's been impartial to thees, she rejected their bid to move the case entirely until after the election. they also made their request in a brief replying to a request they had already made just to postpone motion briefing by a few months, so the fact they're renewing it again and trying to slip it in under the radar probably won't go so well under judge cannon. incrementally if they can sort of move the ball down the field, ultimately they might achieve that overall objectf ovpostponing this case. >> one case litigators have deemed built e litigators have deemed built heading for trial next year. now, we get what seems to be a hail mary from the trump team, suggesting a president cannot be charged with any sort of crime. blanket immunity, basically. what's your assessment there? >> my assessment is that's not going to go over very well. on the other hand, it's a legally open issue. look, president nixon wouldn't have needed a pardon if presidential immunity existed in a blanket form. however, the supreme court

involving trump's storage of classified documents at mar-a-lago, today, his lawyers asked judge aileen cannon start after the 2024 presidential election, citing the many other trials trump faces, in the impossibility of being, quote, in two places at once. and then, in the other federal criminal case, involving trump's efforts to overthrow the 2020 election, trump lawyers are trying to get that case dismissed altogether. they argued, trump's efforts to subvert democracy were actually, quote, efforts to ensure election integrity, and are therefore, protected under presidential immunity. joining me now to give her take on the validity of all of this is joyce vance, former u. s. attorney for the northern district of alabama. and of course, co-host of the sisters in law podcast. joyce, thank you for being here. i am not a lawyer, which i say, i think, every hour of this program. but i did read highlights from this argument trump's lawyers were making and found myself chuckling. i wonder what you thought about the assertion that trump has absolute immunity in his federal issue in case. because the

and in the mar-a-lago documents case, this woman, judge aileen cannon, as effectively paused all activity in the case while she considers a request from trump for a three-month extension on the deadlines for filings relating to the handling of the classified material that is at the center of that case. defendant trump's attorneys have asked for a three-month extension to review the voluminous amount of classified material in the case, and we're gonna see if donald trump's favorite judge, as he calls, her gives him that extension. a lot to get to here. joining us now is democratic congressman eric swalwell of california, he was an impeachment manager in the second impeachment trial of president donald trump, he's a plaintive in the civil suit against donald trump for his role in inciting the january 6th attack on the capitol. also with us, normal in, steelmakers scholar at the -- institute, enjoys fans, professor at the university of alabama, school of law. she is an msnbc legal analyst. thanks to all three of you for being here tonight. a lot to get to. congressman swalwell, we'll get to

is that going to play with aileen cannon, the judge in this case? it may very well. she seems like someone who has been much more amenable to at least consider and potentially buy in to the trump team's arguments for delays than what we have in washington, d.c. with judge tanya chutkan, who has not been as willing to buy into the trump team's delays. it's a complicated case in florida. you're dealing with classified information. but if it's going to work somewhere, that seems most likely. >> do you agree? >> i do agree. i think on the federal side, on the january 6th thing, trump's decision to push the absolute immunity argument, which i agree it's an uphill battle, but i think it's smart strategically. immediately appealable, so that is going to give the trump team leverage to argue that the january 6th case needs to be put on hold while the courts of appeals sort out these thorny questions of absolute immunity. trump, i think, is playing a smart game. he probably knows he's not going to win in the district court and court appeals, but it's going to eat up the clock

moments ago florida judge aileen cannon granting a temporary stay on a filing deadline for trump as sheiberates whether to postpone the entire schedule of pre-trial proceedings. on the other hand, no shock here. move on up to new york, the new york appeals court judge shooting down trump's attempt to put on hold the civil fraud trial. here to break down whether a this means, no one better, george washington university law professor jonathan turley who is also a fox news contributor. welcome, professor. >> thank you, kayleigh, the victory, it seems like in florida trump may have won the battle in delay of filing but not the war yet. we are still waiting to hear in that trial gets delayed, what's your prediction there. >> well, i think that someone is going to have to interject some sense of fairness and logic in all of this. the judges have daisy train trials from now until the election for donald trump. and it's not clear why that's necessary, why a simple delay until after the election wouldn't achieve a better process. and, instead, they are sort of taking this guy pillar to post acro

so when aileen cannon got one of his cases he said she's a great jumg.urse she had been a judge less than two years. but that's his m.o. >> i would be remiss to let you go without asking about hunter biden today. the fact that his attorney abby lowel said let him appear by video conference because he's in california, i think it's notable that they came back and said, the prosecutors said, no, he has to be in court and the judge ruled that way so that he is treated like other defendants would be treated. what do you say? >> i think that's why the judge did it, so it would not look like favoritism. it wouldn't look special. however, if it was anybody else, sort of average person whose name we never heard of, the judge might have allowed a remote hearing. i think there's a bend over back ward effect. for example, these three so-called felony charges, i shouldn't say felony charges. they are felony charges. yes, they're felony charges. but they're almost always reduced to a misdemeanor. they're almost always have no jail tile. almost always end up in diversi

it remains to be seen how the federal judge in that case, trump appointee aileen cannon, one response mccord served as the acting assistant attorney general for national security at the department of justice. she is now an msnbc legal analyst and the co-host of the x podcast, prosecuting donald trump are cast, along with andrew weissmann. she joins me now on set. mary, a lot to get to. judge chutkan's gag order is frozen until at least this saturday, or as early as saturday, while trump's legal appeal plays out. what happens next? >> yeah, and this is not that uncommon. in fact, judge chutkan, back in the trump versus thompson case, the case involving the house select committee's request for presidential records, judge chutkan was the first judge to rule there. she also administratively, reinstated her order because she knew trump was gonna take an appeal, and she thought let's gonna preserve the status quo while he takes his appeal, and that's what she's done here. so administratively, she reinstated until she rules herself, that she she should be state throughout the entire pendency

let's go to fort pierce for judge aileen cannon presides in the court, the federal courthouse up therebetween those two depots, unitas talked about, gonna be a garcia hearing, to garcia hearings in the mar-a-lago classified documents case. it doesn't involve trump and his lawyers. it involves his codefendants, -- and their lawyers. why should donald trump be nervous if there does end up being a finding that there's a conflict of interest where those two codefendants get new lawyers? >> because anytime that a witness who has incriminating information about donald trump gets a conflict for a lawyer, as every witness is entitled to under the sixth amendment right to counsel, it's a really bad thing for donald trump. we've seen how when maga world lawyers represent adverse witnesses, witnesses who could incriminate donald trump, whether it's cassidy hutchinson or you will seal tall barris, the former i.t. director down at mar-a-lago, when they get conflict free council, the truth starts tumbling out. they start to incriminate donald trump and others. garcia hearing, as you say, it's a hear

gone after one judge in one of the cases against him, the only judge he has not gone after, judge aileen cannone uaw's unprecedented strike against the big three auto makers may soon be over, and 40,000 workers who had taken the picket lines may be returning to work. president biden confirmed moments ago that general motors has reached a tentative deal with the uaw, making it the last and final company to make an agreement. joining us from streetsboro, ohio, jesse kirsch. i was watching you a little bit earlier. it seems like the deal made with gm today and stellantis, largely in line with the deal made with ford the other day. >> reporter: yeah, and i just want to point out first off, we're outside a stellantis facility, you hear that, no horns. that's the difference today we're hearing at facilities all over the country with word of the tentative agreements. interestingly, we don't have any specifics yet on what is in a tentative agreement with general motors, and here's why. president biden said he spoke to the union's president and that the president, president biden is saying that a ta, a

today, at 8:30 a.m., trump criminal defense lawyers asked their favorite judge, aileen mercedes cannon, who was appointed by donald trump to delay the trial, in the classified documents case six months so that it wouldn't begin before november of next year. that would get the trial to start after the presidential election. at 10:45 a.m., donald trump's georgia codefendant, david schaffer, adopted codefendant, kenneth chesebro's motion to dismiss. at 11:20, 90 am, georgia codefendant sydney powell filed a reply to the prosecution's response to a motion to dismiss. at two pm, donald trump moved to dismiss jack smith's washington d.c. prosecution for crimes leading up to and on january 6th. at 2:13 pm, georgia codefendant, robert cheeley, filed a motion to dismiss the charges against him. at four pm, donald trump filed a motion to dismiss the criminal charges against him in manhattan for business fraud. in payoffs to porn star, stormy daniels. at 5:15 pm, georgia judge scott mcafee held a hearing on motions to dismiss by codefendant sydney powell, and indicated that a dismissal would be u

trump's lawyers in tha one have asked federal judge aileen cannon to postpone the trial until mid-novemberht now, that trial is set to start on may 20th of next year. now, one of theeasons trump's lawyering cited in their request to delay is that trump's busy. he's a very crowded legal calendar. lawyers claiming that they nor trump could "be in two places at once." one of the lawyers in the classified documents case is also the lawyer that's resting trump in this new york fraud se in new york this week. and then t was the other federal criminal case against donald trump. the one looking into his efforts to subvert his defeat in 2020, the 2020ction and overturn the result algether. get that one dismissed saying something like, efforts to ensure election integrity were within the scope of his responsibility as president. and, therefore, protected under presidential immunity? okay. probably dizzy trying to make sense of all of these legal maneuvers coming today. make it simple. donald trump a man currently in new york for fraud charged with criminal cases from various other alleged crimes is

the former president's classified documents case, where trump's lawyers once again asked judge aileen cannonpostpone the trial until after next year's presidential election. also, the former president unexpectedly dismissed a $500 million lawsuit against his former lawyer, michael cohen, yesterday, while vowing to revisit it at a later date. trump had been scheduled to sit for a deposition in the case on monday. ah-ha. lastly, donald trump's lawyers are expected to ask for a pause in his civil fraud trial today after an irate former president left the courthouse in new york city on monday. his attorneys returned yesterday, informing judge arthur engoron of their going to stay the case. we have a pulitzer prize winner, craig, reporting on donald trump. and catherine christian, former district attorney in the manhattan d.a.'s office. good morning to you both. you need one of those big boards where you connect the yarn, like carrie in "homeland," to keep track of all these. suzanne, let's start with what you've been covering. >> yup. >> the civil fraud trial. >>ri moving along? >> he was here f