Between former President Trump and special counsel jack smith. A short time ago, the federal judge overseeing trumps election case responded to a court filing from smith theres night. Smith is seek a protective order after trump posted this yesterday evening, saying, quote, if you go after me, im coming after you. Smith is pointing to that message and asking the judge in the case to set limits on trump and his legal team when it comes to publicly discussing sensitive evidence and the judge has given the trump team until 5 00 p. M. This sunday to respond. Just this afternoon, lawyers asked a judge for more time to weigh in on what restrictions should be imposed. Joining us now to discuss, democratic congresswoman Veronica Escobar of texas. Thanks for joining. When you saw these words that trump wrote in that threatening post, what did you think of that . What was your concern there . Well, good afternoon, jim. It was as predicted. I mean, i knew he would not be able to help himself. He
tonight may soon be the top story in the markets or even on main street. the president summoning leaders to the white house scheduled for next week to face what they re now calling a far more urgent threat of default with some republicans threatening to take the economy hostage. the final deadline is earlier in the month, republicans doubling down on threats which you may recall picked up in the obama years that instead of voting against new spending, which is the standard way that a politician or a legislator can curb the size of government, totally fine, you say, hey, let s not spend as much. nowadays you may have heard, republicans try to hijack the process of paying the bill, the debt, and they do that as a sort of a voodoo to scare the market, scare the white house, e tract concessions and keep the government from paying the bills it has, that includes naturally bills run up by both democrats and republicans, including recent spending under former president trump. we
it handed over its recommendations in february, after interviewing more than 75 witnesses, including some of the biggest anymores in trump s orbit. mr. giuliani, when you met with georgia lawmakers, did you lie to them? we will not talk about this until it s over. it s a grand jury, and grand juries, as i recall, a secret. reporter: trump s former attorney, rudy giuliani is among the list of trump associates who received letter from at d.a. indicating he s a target of the investigation. in the months after trump s loss in georgia, giuliani met with georgia lawmakers at the state capital three times, spreading conspiracy theories and election interference lies. i thought they were trying to steal something from me. reporter: independent atlanta based journalist george cheedy stumbled into the group of electors. this week he received a subpoena to appear before the grand jury. once the grand jury hears the case it will be in their hands to decide whether or not to issue indictm
this would operate to potentially violate his first amendment rights some that right there is an interesting clash about someone who has proven himself, at least in the eyes of the doj, to be so irresponsible with materials, evidence, allegedly classified material that he had his home searched. so there are definitely two sides. the hearing thursday will occur without donald trump in evidence. the d.a. is aggressive. they used to first hearing, the in-person arraignment to rebuke donald trump s public threats in the courtroom. actually, though, while that was very important it was done in court. when it comes to learning other things, maybe the plans, maybe other criticisms of trump, maybe other legal points. well, d.a. bragg has been pretty tight-lipped. here he was asked about the threats part at a recent discussion. i will not ignore threats. we re not going to be deterred.