I know exactly. It tells you exactly the world we are living in. Great show as always my friend, great to see you. Good evening and welcome to ayman, everyone tonight. Weve got Breaking News in the Election Interference Case. The Special Counsel has requested a Protective Order against donald trump. Plus were going to debunk Donald Trumps defense. Were going to break down the antiarguments his legal team and his republican allies are already making. Then, the women at the center of the criminal trial, what to know about judge tanya chutkan, and her surprising history with the ex president. Im Ayman Mohyeldin, lets get started. I read a lot of Breaking News this evening, just moments ago, a string of developments regarding Donald Trumps third and arguably most important indictment. Judge tanya chutkan, whos overseeing this case, just denied at trumps legal team an extension to respond to a Protective Order request from the Special Counsels office. Now, prosecutors filed the request for
that is how the majority of this person to criminal cases across the country. chutkan, and a bomb appointee who his served on the bench for nearly a decade, is not new to generate six federal cases. in fact, she is known for handed out some of the toughest penalties to the capital priorities. one of two doesn t executives who have collectively sentenced more than two dozen defendants for that role in the attack. her colleagues often opposed more lenient punishments than what prosecutors requested. but chutkan has matched or exceeded those recommendations in 19 of her 38 cents. is that much for the only d.c. federal judge what took up beyond what doj lawyers asked for. chutkan has also rolled against trump in the past. she rejected his request to block noting in her ruling, president biden was not obliged to honor trump s claims of executive privilege. she wrote that trump appeared to have the impression, quote,
dozens of witnesses in this case have been subpoenaed. they re telling the truth. they are at risk of being intimidated by this president, who is using language that we tend to see from deposed leaders and therapist countries. that we tend to see even from mobsters. he was the one who just said, if you come for me, i m coming for you. that s the language that we hear from of bosses, not former american presidents. what s also american, anthony, when you read the indictment, as lisa pointed, out the effort that trump and jeffrey clark at the doj went to try and convince other officials at the home of justice that they were election fraud allegations, which ultimately never proved to be true or were never substantiated. it goes to show you what degree they wanted to weaponize the department of justice against our elections. please stick around, everyone, we have a lot more to discuss. we re going to squeeze and a quick break. on the other side of it, will
january 2021, trump process the acting attorney general jeffrey rosen and richard donahue on election fraud claims in wisconsin, georgia, and pennsylvania. all of which are debunked. on december 28th, coconspirator full, who appears to be ex doj official jeffrey clark sends a draft literal to rosen and donahue. he pushes them to sign. the letter he wants to send to this if interpreted state contains election lies and claims the justice department had, quote, identified significant concerns that may have impacted the outcome of the election and multiple states. luckily, donahue rejects that. trump, no. he doesn t give up. he keeps going. on december 31st, trump meets with rosen and donahue and other advisers were he again raises election lies. trump suggests he much ainge doj leadership at this meeting. ungenerous iken, trump makes
politically speaking. and, i want to get your thoughts, anthony, specifically about the special counsel here. in the special counsel s request, they cite how trump has previously issued public statements on social media witnesses on social media, about witnesses, judges, attorneys and others associated with legal matters, pending against him. so, it seems to go without saying that this motion was necessary from the doj s perspective, very early on. it was absolutely necessary, amen, and they moved with the seed that we have all come to expect from jack smith. to cynthia s point, right now, we have, on the one hand, a very aggressive prosecutor inject smith, the doj would say we pursue justice about the your favor is absolutely doing that. and he is in that independent, he s not some left wing idealogue that donald trump is trying to