relationship by compelling the testimony of one of donald trump s criminal defense jurors that indicted donald trump in the classified documents case. and andrew wiseman former fbi general council and former chief of the criminal division, the eastern district of new york. he is an msnbc legal analyst and coauthor of the trump indictments. i would like to begin tonight quickly because we need to get to florida quickly. with the gag order issue in manhattan, the trial is over. the trump lawyers say, no need for gag order to protect witnesses or protect the integrity of a trial that is over. the district attorney says, not so fast, there is still an integrity of the proceedings that need to be protected and certainly, the jury continues to need to be protected. what do you expect judge
never used them, losing his license will feel like a man losing his possession of something important to him. it will feel like he lost all of that, thanks to the unanimous verdict of 12 new yorkers. and that will be a form of torture for donald trump. donald trump is used to having no one telling him what to do. but he is finding out that a lot of people can tell a convicted felon what to do including judges and probation officers and the nypds gun license division. a manhattan district attorney filed a response today to donald trump s lawyers requests to lift the gag order imposed on donald trump by judge marchand which prevents donald trump from commenting about witnesses and jurors in the manhattan case where he was
of the espionage act and illegal possession of documentless. those hearings are scheduled for june 21st, june 24th and june 25th. one of the defense arguments that judge cannon will consider in those hearings is that jack smith s appointment as a special counsel is unconstitutional and therefor the case should be dismissed. the judge will also consider the prosecution s motion to change donald trump s conditions of release to ineffect imposing gag order on donald trump that prevents him from making false statements that quote pose a significant imminent and foreseeable danger to law enforcement agents proceeding in the prosecution of this case. the governor s request is necessary because of several false inflammatory statements recently made by trump that distort the circumstances under which the federal bureau of
even if he wanted to because he is required to be at the criminal trial in the world. that would really irk judge marchand if he decided to come in late to spend time over at the other courthouse. you re right. i probably would not go over too well. the first order of business tomorrow is judge marchand s ruling on the so-called sandoval hearing. if trump takes the stand, prosecutors want to ask him about the e. jean carroll defamation and sexual abuse cases as well as the former fraud judgment. what are you hearing about trump s claim that he wants to testify? does he really want to do it? not a chance. he has said this in other cases. the e. jean carroll case. he said this about the mueller report. he does not testify. is not going to testify. was hearing that will determine what prosecutors can use against trump, it s like asking, how would you spend $1 billion if you were a billionaire? i would say it doesn t matter because i m not a billionaire and i m not going to become
candidates, and there was at one point, he made a request of us, you know, the press covering the trial to refrain from reporting any specific details about where the jurors work or previously worked because that was proven to be somewhat identifying. it was, in the judge s impression, becoming a problem. he is both trying to keep these people anonymous, although they do seem to be under instructions in the courthouse on their own sometimes. they have court officers pick them up off-site. that doesn t seem like what s happening. there bring themselves to the courthouse, but there s also the witnesses who are going to have extra security, going to have the security detail coming in and out at the very least.