jessica schneider.thank you. >>> and now, immediately fund-raising from the shot heard around the world as john berman would say, the main fund-raising page attached and even more, there is an official mugshot merch, and the campaign is launching "never surrender" mugs and bumper stickers and he did have to surrender to the county jail, and now, kristen holmes is going to join us from his bedminster home, and what more is donald trump saying about his arrest? >> well, kate, look, i want to talking about the mug shot and how much he is promoting it, because i talked to a number of campaign advisers before they knew if they were going to have to take it, and they did not want him to take this mug shot. remember, when he was arraigned in new york, they put on a fake photo, and they didn't want the real thing, because they wanted to control what they were going to take out, and once it is clear they would take the mug shot, they had lots of conversations with the former president who cares about the optic,

we'll get the latest from cnn's jessica schneider in washington. >> reporter: things are already moving quickly in the latest criminal case against the former president. the special counsel's team has submit their recommendations for a trial start date next week, august 10th. at that point trump's legal team will then have seven days to respond and they've already said they will be pushing back against any rush to trial. the speedy trial act actually does say that a trial should happen 70 days after a defendant appears in court. so 70 days from thursday. but trump's team can move to have that date pushed back, which is very likely something they'll do. in fact, trump's attorney john lauro told the court there is way too much evidence to sift through in the 2020 election case to move too quickly toward a trial date. of course, up to this point, part of the trump legal playbook has been to delay, delay, delay. as for trump, he railed against the prosecution on the tarmac of the d.c. airport after his arraignment. he said it was all political, part of the biden administration's plan to thw

cnn's jessica schneider is following all of this. good morning, jessica.he last 48 hours this flurry of activity back and forth with trump's lawyers talking to anyone who will listen, what's the upshot of it all? >> reporter: yeah, and the court filings in that flurry, john, will probably continue through the week. in fact, just minutes ago trump posted again in somewhat derogatory terms about the special counsel and the judge in this case, tanya chutkan. this is what he wrote, he said, deranged jack smith is going before his number one draft pick, the judge of his dreams who must be recused in an attempt to take away my first amendment rights. then he continues on. it's really posts like these that are exactly why the special counsel's team is asking the judge here, tanya chutkan to issue this protective order. it would restrict which evidence trump gets and also which evidence he can disclose publicly as this case moves forward because the special counsel in their filing about this over the weekend, they specifically cited several of trump's posts, they

jessica schneider has the details. >> the justice department has decided to bring these charges against mr. dale. >> carlos leaves the courthouse on monday. a 20-year employee, he walked out on $100,000 bond, after being charged with former president trump and walt nada, with attempting to delete footage. he told the director of i.t. at mar-a-lago, the boss, an apparent reference to donald trump, wanted to delete the server where security footage was stored. he met with investigators in recent weeks. it's unclear if he is cooperating. so far, she not facing charges. but some of the allegations in the indictment were based on information he provided. >> they're not indicting me. they are indicting you. >> reporter: trump, defiant, as he continued campaigning over the weekend. as he was charged with additional crimes in the classified documents case. >> if i weren't running, nobody would be coming after me. or if i was lose big a lot, i would have nobody coming after me. >> all signs point to another indictment soon. likely against trump and his allies for their efforts to overturn the 20

i want to go right back to jessica schneider, jessica?>> trump's attorney, abby, is telling the judge that six months is just too fast for him to provide proper representation for the former president. the judge though essentially scolded that attorney, john lauro, for not doing more to prepare when trump's team knew the special counsel was investigating and knew that there was an indictment likely coming. so now the trial start date is set for march 4th, 2024. now prosecutors are saying that they have already handed over nearly 13 million pages of documents. but also saying that trump's team should be familiar already with the majority of these documents, and should be able to review what is left relatively quickly. so this march 4th trial start date, it could slide, let's likely not by much. abby? >> very fascinating, thank you, jessica. back to the table here, judge chutkan is not messing around here, she's, like we are gonna get a date on the calendar. okay? everyone's gonna be ready. do you think of that date is appropriate though? t

share with his followers in the social media site truth social. >> and that is just this case, jessica schneider. john? >> and so now, in the fulton county grand jury into the election returns overturn in fulton county, georgia, lieutenant governor duncan says he will testify. >> yes, the lieutenant governor saying he is willing to comply with the subpoena he received to supply testimony before the grand jury who we assume is going to be hearing the case before former president donald trump and his many allies, but listen to what jeff duncan said on cnn yesterday about why he believes it is important to comply with the subpoena. >> yeah, i'll be there to answer the facts as i know them to continue the process to discover what actually happened in the post election period of time and we cannot repeat it asnd i don'e it happen in my home state ofda ga and a lot people's lives have been uprooted and soiled. >> we don't know that the district attorney is going to necessarily call all of the witnesses that she has called to provide testimony, but she has to craft a narrative around what donald trump

jessica schneider, cnn, washington. >>e an assistant professor of lw was in the court for mark meadows' testimony and shared his reaction. >> he had a very hard time on i think today in trying to make a case. he certainly articulated that in his view he had a wide range of activities that fell under his obligations as chief of staff. you know, making phone calls, getting contact information, g gatekeeping, keeping the president on schedule. but when the d.a.'s office pushed back, there were a number of very important points that were raised that meadows really didn't have a very good answer for. for example, why did he offer campaign cash in order to help the -- helpful ton county get a signature audit moving along. why did he have coordinated efforts with particularton coun signature audit moving along. why did he have coordinated efforts with particular campaign officials for setting up this phone call. and the big question is why didn't he rope in members of the department of justice or department of homeland securit

cnn's jessica schneider has the details. >> reporter: the case against donald trump in washington, d.c. is moving rapidly and the judge in this case is really being firm on what trump and his legal team can and cannot disclose about this case to the public. so the judge issued a protective order that lays out that trump and his team cannot disclose any sensitive information given to them during this discovery process. that includes material about the grand jury or search warrants and she ao issued several warnings to trump. she noted that even though he's running a political mpgn, he still has to in h words yield to the administration of justice. she said if that means that his political speech has to be somewhat limited, then that is how it's going to be and she says she's going to be carefully scrutinizing statements from trump and his team. she says anything that can be interpreted to be intimidating to witnesses or prejudicial to potential jurors, it could really threaten the whole process in this case. under all these terms, prosecutors said they're prepared to begin handing over

jessica schneider here with us. is there a court filing in the works to get some of this sorted out by the supreme court, or is this just the former president posting on social media? >> at this point boris, it appears to be political bluster. we don't know of any legal finding. but it is possible that at some point in either of these cases, january 6th or classified documents case, the elements of the case or ultimate ruling, decision from the trial, jury itself might ultimately be appealed all the way up to the supreme court. but right now we haven't seen any indication of that. it's important to note, though, every other time that any of trump's challenges to the 2020 election, every other time they've gone up before the supreme court, the court either decided not to hear the case or rejected trump's arguments even though 3 of the 9 justices were appointed by trump. he does not have a good track record at the supreme court. it is quite possible in the coming month osar years his team will try to challenge it. >>

for more on trump's legal team in georgia let's bring in jessica schneider. rney? >> yeah, he has decades of experience, jessica. he's been in georgia, he's been a criminal defense attorney and drew findling has really run the gamut of who he's represented. he's represented cardi b. for a felony assault charge that she was charged with, brought it down to a misdemeanor. he's also represented people in high-profile murder trials, mrs. in political corruption scandals. and one thing he's always said is that everyone deserves a fair defense. that despite the fact he's now on the former president's legal team. however, he has been very critical of former president trump in numerous instances all over twitter. i mean, it was back in 2017 when trump had fired the u.s. attorney in manhattan, preet barra when drew findling wrote this. he said the find firing was a sign of fear he would aggressively investigate the stench hovering over this president of the united states, or potus. he also tweeted about trump in 2017 after trump tweeted something about lebron james. dr

cnn's jessica schneider is here with much more on this. out what new is learned in this memo. >> yeah, kate. this memo dated december 6th. it's known to prosecutors. it will likely be a key part of this case and it really lays out that even the man outlining this fake electors plot, kenneth chesebro, he knew it was far fetched and knew it likely would not get through the courts and he kept pushing this plan and it's clear in the memo that chesebro wanted to create confusion in the hopes that those fake electors could, in fact be real electors for joe biden on january 6th. this was a plan he planned to execute with mike pence in his role and we obviously know that didn't happen. it's a six-page memo. he lays out the four challenges that were happening in the states, and then he each talks about the supreme court getting involved. he puts it this way saying even if in the end the supreme court would likely end up ruling that the power to count the votes does not lie with the president of the senate, mike pence, but instead lies with congress

with us now is cnn justice correspondent jessica schneider. happening before a big hearing on monday where judge chutkan is going to essentially set a trial start date. >> yeah, we're seeing these back and forth legal filings, boris, and potentially we're going to see all of this play out in court on monday during that hearing when judge chutkan could potentially decide on a trial date. the question is will she side with the special counsel going more toward january 2024 or will she side more with the trump team? they don't want until 2026, a long time from now. and the special counsel really firing back last night at trump's team. they are in fact saying that trump's team is vastly overstating just how long this will take them to dig into all of this discovery. this is how the special counsel fired back. they said, "in cases such as this one the burden of reviewing discovery cannot be measured by page count alone and comparisons to the height of the washington monument and the length of a t tolstoy novel are neither helpful nor insightful." w

jessica schneider, cnn, washington. >>> more younger adults in the u.s. are finding that they have cancer especially women. a nestudy shows the cancer diagnosis rate among americans below age 50 went up between 2010 and 2019.that was largely spike among women and people in their 30s. the increase was the highest among native americans as well as asians and hispanics. data from other countralso shows an increase of cancers among unadults. scientists attributed it to better screenings and other factors that they have yet to investigate. the study published in the journal jama network open. >>> at least three people have died in the northeastern u.s. after contracting infections from a flesh eating bacteria. two people in connecticut were infected after swimming in the long island sound and new york's governor says the bacteria was detected in a person who died on long island. all the victims fell ill from a bacteria that lives naturally in warm salty water. people can catch it by swimming with open wounds or by eating raw or undercooked shellfish. >>> it ha

let's talk about this now with cnn justice correspondent jessica schneider. , we should talk about the timeline here because the judge did not give a firm timeline on when there would be a ruling on this and we are expecting on september 6th for there to be this arraignment process for all the georgia defendants. could we see meadows actually get arraigned before this decision comes down? >> it's unclear at this point. because the judge did acknowledge in this hearing that he was well aware that mark meadows and of course the 18 other defendants including the former president are scheduled to appear in court on september 6th. but i will note it's likely that most if not all of these defendants actually won't be physically in court on that day. we've already seen one of the defendants, ray smith, who was a campaign attorney for the 2020 election for trump, he's already waived his appearance sig i'm going to submit my not guilty plea, i'm waiving not being in court. so it's likely the former president will waive, meadows will waive if he needs to, other defendan

more now from cnn's jessica schneider. >> justice department is unfortunately decided to bring theseharges against mr. de oliveira. now it's time for them to put their money where their mouth is. >> reporter: carlos deal vary ra leaving the federal courthouse on monday escorted by his lawyer and federal agents. 20 year employee at mar-a-lago, he walked out on $100,000 bond after being charged along with former donald trump and trump's aide walt gnat ta. de oliveira telling the director at i.t. at miami, the boss, an apparent reference to donald trump, wanted to delete the server where security footage was stored. cnn reporting that another mar-a-lago employee received a target letter from federal prosecutor. over sees the property surveillance cameras and met with investigators in recent weeks. it's unclear if he is cooperating. so far he is not facing charges. but at least some of the allegations in the latest indictment were based on information he provided. >> you know, they're not indicting me. they're indicting you. i just happen to be standing in their way. that's all it is. >>

let's bring in cnn justice correspondent, jessica schneider. so trump's team is vowing to oppose the protective order in the federal case, right? >> yeah, that's right. and they're expected to oppose it in that filing by 5:00 tonight. it will be the first in a long list of fights that trump's lawyers are preparing for. the former president and his attorney over the weekend saying that they'll ask the judge to step aside from the case. they claim that she can't be impartial. they're also planning to ask for a change of venue to move this case outside of washington, d.c. and this is all as both sides will start to make their case for how soon a trial should start. former president donald trump and his legal team going on offense this weekend, at trump pleaded not guilty to four charges, alleging that he tried to overturn the results of the 2020 presidential election. >> the point is that we will not agree to keeping information that's not sensitive from the press. >> reporter: trump's lawyer says his legal team plans to oppose a protective order

cnn's jessica schneider joins us with more on this. are you learning about what kind of trouble these unnamed, unindicted co conspirators be themselves? >> yesterday, kate, special counsel jack smith, he made clear this investigation continues and it is very possible, very likely that at least some of these six co-conspirators could face charges or each by naming them in this indictment and it would pressure them to work with investigators and the first co-conspirator that cnn has identified is rudy giuliani. he is described in this indictment as an attorney who is, quote, willing to spread knowingly false claims and pursue strategies that other attorneys just wouldn't who were involved in the campaign. so that description alone, it does indicate that charges could be coming. giuliani was front and center pushing these election fraud claims and he led that, fort to pressure state legislators to overturn the election. co-conspirator number two, former trump lawyer john eastman. part of what he did was he circulated a two-page plan for v

cnn's jessica schneider has details. >>> the case against donald trump in washington, d.c. is moving rapidly, and the judge in this case is really being firm on what trump and his legal team can and cannot disclose about this case to the public. so judge issued a protective order, and it lays out that trump and his team cannot disclose any sensitive information, given to them, during the discovery process. so that includes material about the grand jury, or search warrants, and she also issued several warnings to trump, she noted that even though he's running a political campaign, he still has to, in her words, yield to the administration of justice. and she said, that means that his political speech has to be somewhat limited, and that is how it is going to be, and she said she is going to be carefully scrutinizing statements from trump and his team, she says anything that can be sberpinterpreted to be intimidating to witnesses or prejudicial to potential jurors, it can threaten the whole process in this case. under all of these terms, prosecutors say they are prepared to b

cnn's jessica schneider joins us now. d the judge have to say about the time line, as she was setting that date? >> you know, john, the judge actually said it would have been unprecedented to wait until 2026 for a criminal trial to start. that's what the trump team wanted. and judge chutkan here, she actually chided trump's lawyers for not already prepping for this possibility for a quick trial in just six months. she stressed they knew this investigation was ongoing with the special counsel. and as she put it, a zealous attorney wouldn't have just been waiting in the wings for an indictment. they would have been prepping for this. trump's lawyer though, john lauro, he shot back and said he has just recently taken on this case. and he bluntly told the judge, look, i won't be able to provide effective legal assistance with a trial date this soon in just six months. and this is actually likely trump's team probably setting up the stage for an eventual appeal. they probably won't be able to appeal this early trial date in the

as for what happened today, jessica schneider joins us now. jessica, walk us through what the judge laid out today with the protective order. >> reporter: yeah, john. this isn't as broad of a protective order the prosecution wanted. but it does restrict trump and his team from publicly disclosing the sensitive information handed over to them during the discovery process. this is sensitive information that includes grand jury process information, also information about search warrants. and this protective order, it also governs how trump can get access to this information. for example, when he's not with his attorneys, he can't have his phone or any recording device when he views this information. and, john, there is a lot of it. prosecutors said today at the hearing, they're prepared to hand over 11.6 million pages of documents. that also includes recordings of witness interviews that trump will also not be able to share or post on his social media. the judge, john, she said she'll be scrutinizing everything that trump's team does say on social

cnn's jessica schneider takes a look at what is ahead for the former president. >> things are already moving quickly, in the latest criminal case against the former president. the special counsel's team has to submit the recommendations for a trial start date next week, august 10th. at that point trump's legal team will have seven days to respond. and they have already said they will be pushing back against any rush to trial. the speedy trial act actually does say that a trial should happen 70 days after a defendant appears in court. so 70 days from thursday. but trump's team can move to have that date pushed back. which is very likely something they will do. in fact, trump's attorney told the judge in court on thursday, that in his view there is way too much evidence to sift through in the 2020 election case to move too quickly toward a trial date. and of course, up to this point, part of the trump legal playbook has been to delay, delay, delay. now as for trump, he railed against the prosecution on the tarmac of the dc airport after his arraignment and he said it was all political,

let's go to justice correspondent jessica schneider. jessica, what's the latest? >> yeah, laura, this. >>ing a brothis isn't as broad protective order. this includes details about the grand jury process, also about search warrant, it also says when trump use views this information, he can't have his phone or any recording device when he's without his lawyer. included in this discovery is 11.6 million pages of documents. even recordings of witness interviews. trump can't share or post any of it. and the judge here said she will be watching, and she warned that if trump or his team talked too publicly about this case, she's going to be forced to move even more quickly to a trial to ensure a fair jury pool. and it's a speedy timeline that trump and his team definitely don't want. >> jessica, thank you. thank you so much. interesting, back at the table right now, the warning was, look, if you want to keep talking about about it, you think you can't get a fair trial, you can't to air it in the court of public opinion, we're going to have the trial that much sooner. be

jessica schneider is covering the legal thread. a defendant pointing a finger at trump saying in effect he delivered the orders, i followed them. she's the third, i believe, to do this. tell us the significance. >> yeah. this could be just part of the cascade that we're seeing in these legal filings that keep coming in. this one from kathy latham, she was one of the fake electors that prosecutors signed the paperwork claiming trump was the winner of georgia in 2020 when he wasn't. now he's charged as part of this broad plot to steal the 2020 election. in her feeling today, she's asking for the case to be moved to federal court and saying it should be moved to federal court because she was following the orders of then president trump. she said in performing the duties, mrs. latham was acting to assist congress in its count and announcement of electoral votes for president and vice president of the united states. mrs. latham was furthermore acting to assist the president and was following the advice of the president's legal counsel f

jessica schneider is following this. and walk us through what happens after the 5:00 p.m. deadline. >> yes, omar, there are a flurry of deadlines. so first to the protective order deadline. the judge will determine whether or not to restrict trump's access to the evidence and to restrict what they are asking for. the access may be strong because of what he put on truth social this morning. he wrote "deranged jack smith is going before his number one draft pick, the judge of his dreams to limit my rights." and you know, he has a penchant for posting, and when they asked to restrict what he can post in the case. and so this is going to be one of the many fights that we can expect in this case. both sides, they have to propose a starting date for this trial in the coming days to propose that, and trump team has indicated that they want to slow-walk this, and delay the start of the trial. in addition, trump and the lawyers are asking the judge to recuse herself, mostly because she has in the past referenced trump in cases for january 6th sentencing. and trump wrote over the we

jessica schneider is in washington, and so, what are the prosecutor's arguments here, jessica? >> john, this is a back and forth battle between the special cou counsel's team, and the lawyers and how soon the trial here in washington can get started. the special counsel has proposed january 2024, and trump's team is saying that they won't be able to start until 2026, and overnight that the special counsel's team really called that huge gap in time unwarranted and unnecessary. the big sticking point here is mostly about how many documents trump's team is going to review. the special counsel has said in open court and filings that there are 11.6 million pages of documents as part of the discovery and when trump's team laid out the arguments for delaying until 2026, they laid out the images of how many pages that actually s and in fact, they compared it at one point to the washington monument stacked on top of itself eight times with one million pages to spare in their words. but the special counsel is shooting back and saying that the description is overblown. specifically, they

jessica schneider, cnn, washington. >>> we turn to the latest now on the wildfire disaster in hawaii. overnight officials raised the death toll to 106 people. is far remains of only five victims have been identified. hawaii's governor says 185 search and rescue personnel are on scene doing recovery work along with 20 dogs. governor josh green told cnn last night that some of maui's warning sirens were broken which is being investigated. but he says that may not be the only reason that they weren't used. >> sirens were typically used for tsunamis or hurricanes. to my knowledge at least i never experienced them in use for fires. there may be some reasons for that. sometimes sirens send people up mountain and going up the mountain during a fire can be problematic. going up the mountain when there is a wave is what you have to do. >> and gloria paz me know is on maui with the latest. >> reporter: the search continues. as the death toll mounts, there is desperation in this devastated maui resort town. crews now combing through the ruins of lahaina using cadaver dogs trained to find human r

but everyone, first, i want to go to cnn correspondent jessica schneider with the news. jessica, he had a georgia judge rejecting trump's efforts right now to disqualify fani willis. she is the dea down in fulton county. so what do we know now tonight, about where that case stands? >> well laura, so that ruling by that superior court judge, it was definitely a win for the district attorney moving forward here. the judge they disregarded these claims that the district attorney should be disqualified, the judge really applauded the dea for staying nonpartisan, non political throughout this two and a half year investigation. and fani willis does plan to announce whether there will be any indictment against the former president before september 1st. so right now, in georgia, there are currently two criminal grand juries convened in fulton county. they are meeting several days this week, and the district attorney will either this week or next, then present her case to the grand jury. so the grand jury will then vote on any indictments, whether it is against trump or any of the

cnn's jessica schneider joins me now. tell us more about that filing, jessica. >> yeah. going to be to dig into and review all of this discovery because of course trump's team has said they need this trial to start no sooner than 2026 and they're attributing it mostly to the 11.6 million pages of documents that are being handed over during discovery. the special counsel, though, is shooting back. they're saying that that much time until 2026 is unwarranted, unnecessary, mostly they say because trump and his team are already familiar with most of the material already. the special counsel saying at least 3 million of these pages are from the secret service, an additional 3 million pages are from people or entities associated with donald trump. so the special counsel here trying to make the point that the review of these documents despite the fact that there are 11.6 million pages, it won't actually be that cumbersome. and plus they said they've structured this material in such a way that it can be easily searched via keyword. so we're seeing this flurry of legal filings, t

cnn justice correspondent jessica schneider is covering this story. mation is the judge now asking for, and what's the time line? >> reporter: so the federal judge is asking for more believing. and that really indicates here that this judge will not make a decision on whether mark meadows can remove his case to federal court any time before friday. that's because all the briefing on this issue is due thursday evening. the federal judge is asking here both sides, he's asking this question. he's saying, because mark meadows is charged with two counts, one of them being that racketeering conspiracy charge that actually consists of several different overt acts. the judge is saying, well, if just one of those overt acts falls under the umbrella of meadows as a federal officer, does that mean that he can remove his case to federal court? so really that would be a win for mark meadows if it only took one act under rico to let him move it to federal court. they're going to have briefing on this, and then the judge will take that into consideration. but it's an

cnn's jessica schneider has more on that. >> victor and amarer, things are already moving very quickly in the latest criminal case with the former president. the special counsel's team, they have to submit their recommendations for a trial start date next week on august 10th. after that, trump's legal team will have seven days to respond. they've already said they will definitely be pushing back against any rush to trial. the speedy trial act does say a trial should happen 70 days after a defendant appears in court. 70 days from thursday. but trump's team really can move to have that date pushed back, which is very likely. trump's attorney did tell the judge on thursday that in his view there is just way too much evidence to sift through in this 2020 election case to move fast toward a trial date. of course, part of the trump legal playbook has been delay, delay, delay so we can expect that to likely continue. as for trump, he did rail against the prosecution on the tarmac at the dc airport after his arraignment saying it was all political, part of the biden administration's plan to th

jessica schneider is "outfront" live in washington to begin our coverage tonight. jessica, what more are you learning about the judge's response to trump tonight? >> reporter: yeah, tonight, erin, it really shows this judge is serious about moving this case along. despite all those criticisms and even the calls for recusal that have come from trump and his legal team. judge tanya chutkan has scheduled the first hearing in is. it will be friday morning at 10:00 a.m., despite trump's lawyers saying they preferred a court date early next week. so trump's lawyers, they cited the fact that they have to be at that hearing in the classified documents ka isin florida on thursday as part of the reason they wanted to push this to next week. but judge chutkan, she had made initially clear that she wanted this hearing scheduled by close of business on friday. so the judge really wants this hearing to happen quickly because it will determine what kind of protective order will be imposed on the evidence that prosecutors hand over to trump and his team. erin, you mentioned it, mea

jessica schneider, cnn, washington. >>> turning now to the war in ukraine. the country's military says it is not expecting for receive american-made f-16 fighter jet this is year and will make due without them, but ukraine's air force says it is making progress on training pilots to fly the u.s.-made planes once they do arrive. nada bashir is following this story from london. how much does ukraine actually need the f-16s and what will it do if it can't get them this year? >> reporter: in terms of the need, the hope from the ukrainian side is that these f-16s would provide the much needed boost for ukraine's ongoing counteroffensive, something that president zelenskyy has been pushing for since the early stages of russia's invasion of ukraine. after more than a year, we saw the turnaround from president biden in may endorsing the training of ukrainian pilots in congress junction with eu partners on these u.s. gsh-made fighter jets. this is a blow to the ongoing counteroffensives the fact they won't have these jets or be able to operate them over the coming mo

here with me jessica schneider. jess, i want to start with you. the hearing expected on monday could be a big moment for this case that could set the course of what we might see going forward. what are we expecting exactly? >> it's going to be a really interesting hearing. it going to be quite lengthy. it will be the first test of this argument of potentially removing the case for certain individuals, certain defendants to federal court under this argument that they were acting as a federal official and that's why it should be removed to federal court. we've seen this argument from mark meadows, that's what the evidentiary hearing will be on monday. we're also seeing the argument from jeffrey clark, from the justice department and most recently today three of these fake electors who basically said donald trump made me do it, i was acting in accordance with what he wanted so this should be removed as well. we already know that fani willis issued several subpoenas to two of the people on this call january 2nd, that now infamous call from donald trum

let's go to jessica schneider, what is trump's latest filing mean? >>reporter: this is trump's second not guilty plea in a matter of two days. these are based on the additional charges wrought by the special counsel in the superseding indictment we saw in florida in the classified documents case last week. with the filing beans, this not guilty plea on paper, it means trump likely will not be in court for what will be an arraignment date next week in florida. he can submit this plea on the papers. these were charges, specifically one count of willful retention of national defense documents. also two additional obstruction counts in that is related to the alleged attempts to destroy the surveillance footage at mar- a-lago. they added the additional defendant as well. trump will not be in court next week in florida. this is coming at the same time the former resident isg out about all of this on his ueocial page. saying my political opponent has hit meh a barrage of weak lawsuits including da, ag and others which require massive amounts of time and mon

jessica schneider is out front. >> fani willis charging 19 people in the alleged criminal enterprise election. eight of them are lawyers, professionally obligated to follow the law, but now accused of breaking it. already at least one is now claiming the d.a. is criminalizing the practice of law. >> it is ir redeembly khamised. >> trump campaign attorney jenna ellis falsely claimeding widespread election fraud, defending her actions. rudy giuliani also shot back on his radio show. >> this is all protected free speech. this is what you're allowed to do to contest an election. this is what a lawyer is allowed to do in representing a client. >> giuliani is charged with 13 counts in the indictment, more than any other defendant except trump. in a statement he called the charges an affront to american democracy. former federal prosecutor elliot williams pointed out someone's status as an attorney doesn't give them carte blanche to break the law. >> an attorney can provide legal representation to a client as long as they're not urging the client to commit a crime or committing a crime them

we have jessica schneider "outfront" breaking this reporting for us tonight. a few minutes ago. they believe that these two employees at mar-a-lago gave this false testimony about these efforts to delete what were incriminating footage from security camera at trump's florida club. the two employees are carlos de oliveira and yuscil taveras. we know de oliveira because he's been charged in that superseding indictment in florida. we've seen him in court. he was indicted along with the former president and the former president's aide walt nauta. but yuscil taveras has not been charged here. he's only been identified in court documents as trump employee number 4. but what this filing is all about is that it's come to light that after he switched attorneys, because he and walt nauta, up until this point, actually had the same attorney. taveras is working with a public defender, now he seems to be changing his story. he initially told prosecutors one account of efforts to delete the security footage, namely, that he didn't remember any efforts to delete security foo

cnn's jessica schneider is following this. is coming out in this memo and walk us through what you see. >> yeah. it's interesting. it's revealing and of course, it is known to prosecutors and will leakly likely be a key part of the case. kenneth chesebro, this is his memo, he knew it was far fetched and likely illegal and he kept pushing his plan and he wanted to create confusion in hopes that the fake electors could, in fact, be substituted for the real electors on january 6th. this was a plot he planned to execute through the vice president mike pence and mike pence's role as president of the senate and that way he believed trump's team could then steal the election. this is a six-page memo where chesebro lays out the court challenges that were happening in the states and then walked about the supreme court potentially getting involved, putting it this way, saying even if in the end the supreme court would end up rulg that the power to count the votes does not lie with the president of the senate, but instead lies with congr

cnn's jessica schneider has more on this, and joins us now. jessica, what are they asking for here?kate. they're really banking on these motions to move their cases to federal court and in the short term, anyway, that would be so they could avoid arrest before the noon deadline friday that was set by the fulton county d.a. so it's both mark meadows and jeffrey clark. jeffrey clark was a justice department official and they've argued that their status as federal officers when their alleged conduct occurred forms the basis of this indictment, because they were federal officers it requires their cases to be heard by federal and not state court, and the advantages, in their view, would be that they would be taking it to a higher level court with different judges and a different jury pool that would draw from the suburbs of atlanta rather than the city of atlanta and in the suburbs maybe the jury members would be more sympathetic to trump and his allies and that's the thought. the d.a., fani willis has until noon today to respond to the motions made by mark meadows and jeffrey clark. a h

jessica schneider is live from washington, d.c. we know that there are 16 people being charged.them have been arraigned. the rest are expected to appear in court. these are 16 prominent republicans. they range from a school board officials.mayor, republican most of them will be appearing in court at 8:30 this morning. we learned many of them will actually appeaa zoom. bu are all charged with eight felony counts each, and if they were convicted it would amount to decades in prison. most are saying they are vowing to fight the charges vigorously. some even claimed that the attorney general, dana nessel, who is a democrat, is wrongly targeting political opponents because she announced these charges last month. it was though after investigation into this fake electors plot the 16 trump allies showed up at the michigan state capital in december 2020, tried to storm in with fake certificates that falsely declared trump as winner of the state's electoral votes when joe biden had won the state by more than 100,000 votes. all 16 being charged with forgery, publishing a counterfeit record

cnn's jessica schneider has our report. >> impartiality is bedrock. >> reporter: judge tanya chutkand 95-0 by the u.s. senate in 2014 after being nominated by president barack obama. >> the nomination is confirmed. >> reporter: for nearly a decade, she served as one of about two dozen judges at the federal trial court in washington d.c. >> the ideal judge has always been for me one who is open-minded, fair, and prepared. >> reporter: but now that she's been selected at random to preside over donald trump's criminal case for his efforts to overturn the 2020 election, her impartiality is being questioned. >> she worked for boyd schiller which, of course, is hunter biden's firm of choice. >> reporter: in november 2021, chutkan forcefully rejected trump's attempts to block the january 6th committee from accessing more than 700 pages of his white house records, writing, presidents are not kings, and plaintiff is not president. her decision was slammed by trump, but delighted democrats, leading the congressional investigation into the capitol attack. >> it's a big deal. we have a lot of in

here is cnn's jessica schneider. >> reporter: the case against donald trump in washington, d.c.moving rapidly. the judge in this case is really being firm on what trump and his legal team can and cannot disclose about the case to the public. so the judge issued a protective order, and it lays out that trump cannot disclose any sensitive information that is given to him and his team during discovery. so that includes the material about the grand jury process, or information from it, or search warrants. and she also issued several warnings to trump. she noted that even though he is running a political campaign, he still, in her words, has to yield to the administration of justice, and she said that that means his political speech has to be somewhat limited, then that's the way it is going to be, and she said she is carefully scrutinizing any statements that trump and his team make and says anything that they say that can be interpreted to be intimidating to witnesses or prejudicial to potential jurors could really threaten this whole process. so under all of these terms, prosecuto

let's get straight to cnn just justice correspondent jessica schneider with more on this.et's start with the new trump request. is this something that the supreme court could even get involved in? >> at this point it just does appear to be political bluster because we haven't seen any court filings, nothing before the supreme court. however, in the future here, it is possible and quite likely that will we will see challenges in either of the cases. the 2020 election case from yesterday or the classified documents case down in florida. challenges to those could make their way to the supreme court. also, of note here is the fact that trump's track record at the supreme court when it comes to the 2020 election case mrs. general, it is not good. the supreme court has either rejected or refused to even consider every election challenge that he or his allies brought around the 2020 election. and all of that, bianna, despite the fact that three of the nine justices are, in fact, trump nominees. not a good track record for the former president. >> you say just bluster. the next he

cnn's jessica schneider has more on this. are charged what kind of charges could they be facing? >> they could ultimately face any number of charges and it is likely that they could be similar to the charges that donald trump is face. he's facing conspiracy to defraud the united states and charges related to obstructing the certification of the election so maybe those are some of the charges these co-conspirators could face. special counsel jack smith has been very clear that this investigation continues. so it's likely that at least some of these six co-conspirators could face charges or at the very least maybe they're mentioned in the indictment under co-conspirator, one, two, three, et cetera, just to highlight a few of these co-conspirators here, cnn has identified rudy giuliani as co-conspirator number one. he's described in this indictment as an attorney who is, quote, willing to spread knowingly false claims and pursue strategies that other attorneys involved in the campaign just wouldn't after the 2020 election. so th

cnn's jessica schneider drove into her background and compiled? of her prior remarks that have trump defenders raising their eyebrows. >> impartiality is bedrock. >> reporter: judge tanya chut canwas kwon termed in 2014 after being nominated by president barack obama. for nearly a decade, she served as one of about two dozen judges at the federal trial court in washington, d.c. >> the ideal judge has always been for me one who is open minded, fair, and prepared. >> reporter: but now that she's been selected to preside over the trial, her impartialality is being questioned. >> she worked for hunter biden's firnl of choice. >> in november 2021, she rejected trump's attempts to block the january 6 committee from accessing more than 700 pages of his white house records. writing, presidents are not kings and plaintiff is not president. her decision was slammed by trump but delighted democrats leading the congressional investigation into the capitol attack. >> it is a big deal. we have a lot of information we've requested. >> reporter: the judge has ove

justice correspondent jessica schneider is here.et's begin with that federal case, march 4, 2024, trump had wanted it more than two years after that, april 2026. how did the judge decide here? >> yeah, this was two months later than the special counsel wanted, but as you said, more than 2w0 two years earlier thant trump's team wanted. trump's attorney really pushed back on this, he kind of set the stage for a possible appeal. he said look, with this accelerated time line just about six months away, i will not be able take provide effective counsel to the president. he said that it will deny president trump the opportunity to have effective assistance of counsel. and so they are already laying the ground work that this is not enough time here. the judge basically said i'm not taking anything else into consideration here. the quote was she is setting a trial date, it does not depend and should not depend on the defendant's personal or professional obligations. so she set that march 4 trial date without any real considerations on what

jessica schneider is with me. the defense was pushing for a trial in april 2026. the judge said no. we're going to do march 4th. how did she arrive at that date. >> she tamped down on trump's team and said it woe unpress dissented to wait for 2016 and put it this way to trump's lawyer, she said you are not getting two more years, this case is not going to trial there 2026. and then she proceeded to really chide trump's legal team for not already prepping for this possibility of a trial in six months. she said this. she said any agent diligent, zealous defense lawyer would not have been sitting on their hands waiting for an indictment. so saying that trump's lawyers should have started their investigation and preparation for this soon after the special counsel started all of his work. john lauro, trump's lawyer, he hit back and he said, look, i was only just brought on to the legal team recently but that is still not a valid excuse for this. and he also really warned the judge that he wouldn't be able to provide trump effective legal counsel on this tight of a timeline. john lauro th

our justice correspondent jessica schneider here to break that down, what we're learning about them. let's begin, first, here, the six of them as we know them, john eastman, sidney powell, jeffrey clark, kenneth chesebro, rudy giuliani and a sixth named consultant, none charged at this point. let's begin with rudy giuliani, perhaps the most well known, personal attorney to trump, pushed baseless fraud with the arizona house speaker without evidence, we should note, left a voice mail for alabama senator tommy tuberville asking him to slow it down. it being the certification of the election. what is his significance in here? >> he was really the one pushing and at the forefront of these false election claims. the way the indictment put it, they said he was willing to spread knowingly false claims. that kind of language really could be key to potentially charging rudy giuliani in the weeks or months to come because all of these co-conspirators, it is possible they could be charged. rudy giuliani's spokesman, though, he's pushing back big time on this. he says this indictment eviscerates