retaining any evidence a former allies now say that trump is a threat to nationa security and, president biden kicks off his 2020 foreign setting the tone of this campaign, focusin on policy over his potential opponent then, ukrainian forces recapture a village in the southeast with this counte offensive means for the future of the war and democracy abroa as the 11th hour gets underway on this monday night what good evening once again i am alicia menendez, in for stephanie ruhle. the former president s hit wit new restrictions in hi criminal trial as he prepares to fight charge that he mishandled the nation most sensitive secrets today, a federal magistrat judge issued a protective orde borrowing in trump and his c defendant walt not up fo revealing or keeping any trial evidence that also means no posts o social media and they are no for allowed to review evidence unless a lawyer or staff membe from the defense team is present. the ruling follows a request from jack smith s
southeast with this counter offensive means for the future of the war and democracy abroad as the 11th hour gets underway on this monday night. what good evening once again i am alicia menendez, in for stephanie ruhle. the former president s hit with new restrictions in his criminal trial. as he prepares to fight charges that he mishandled the nation s most sensitive secrets. today, a federal magistrate judge issued a protective order borrowing in trump and his co defendant walt not up for revealing or keeping any trial evidence. that also means no posts on social media and they are not for allowed to review evidence unless a lawyer or staff member from the defense team is present. the ruling follows a request from jack smith s prosecutors filed late friday. it also noted that the evidence contains information about ongoing investigations that could identify uncharged individuals. trump of course continues to talk about the case, he s pleaded not guilty to 37 counts including
are folks at mar-a-lago an bedminster, that was the entir argument during th arraignment. and so i think there are potentially significant shoe to drop and i think that anthony, who i have grav disagreements over the past fe months on some of thes instances the one thing that w can agree on is that there s a lot that is opaque and w simply do not know glenn thrush, glenn kirschner, anthony coulee, thank you so much for th spirited confrontation coming, up trump s indictmen weighs on his 2024 rivals wh once again decide whether to defend the former president. and, later, president bide looking to kickstart his campaign focusing on the economy and on climate change. robert gibbs and michael steel are here on that in the clea split screen with the othe party. the 11th hour just getting underway on a monday night
garland and his deputy lis monaco were focused on restoring public trust in th doj while some prosecutors fel that top officials were showin away from looking at evidenc of potential crimes by trump and those close to him and, with that, let s bring in our lead off panel glenn thrush, justic department reporter for the ne york times, former federal prosecutor glenn kirschner and anthony coley former justice department spokesperson unde attorney general merrick garland. glenn kirschner, let s tal about the ruling in th classified documents case abou evidence what does it say to you abou this case? you know, it says that th court and the prosecutors ar going to try to put in place all of the safeguards that the can to keep donald trump fro further disseminatin information. he was obviously disseminating saying is that he should not have been, which is what lande him in legal hot water and now the prosecutors and the judg want to make sure that he is
alicia, what i just described to you is adequate predication to open a criminal probe of donald trump. it could ve been done on january 7th and based on carroll and her colleagues terrific reporting at the post we now know that the leadership of the department of justice dithered and dithered away the time until donald trump announced his candidacy, which forced the attorney general to properly put a special counsel. that is the bit of silver lining here because if not for special counsel jack smith i am not convinced that we would yet have an indictment in the documents crimes case. anthony, i promise i ll bring you in but i want to make sure that i get to glenn. it s interesting to look at these stories juxtaposed one another. you glenn threshes been his approach to prosecutions and his desire not to let the sideshows slow this process down. what have you learned? that is true about smith exhilarating but i want to address that some of the points that have been mentioned. first