You are live in the cnn newsroom. Im jim acosta in washington. Good evening. We are inching closer to i deadline in the governments case against former President Donald Trump over his efforts to overturn the 2020 election. Trumps lars now have about 22 hours to respond to a legal filing from special counsel jack smith. He requested a protective order after trump posted this on social media on friday. If you go after me, im coming after you. Smith wants the judge to limit trump and his legal team from publicly discussing sensitive evidence in the election interference case. Today on cnn we heard from one trump lawyer who says he will fight that protective order. The Defense Attorney also says trump did not tell Vice President mike pence at the time to throw out key electoral votes. He says the key distinction is that trump merely asked. Youre saying that asking is action. No, asking is aspirational. Asking is not action. Its core free speech. What President Trump did not do is direct Vi
about diversity. that sounds what s the word i m looking for? woke. that s a good point. d.c. is famous for being reluctant to convict. it s actually a pretty good venue to be a defense attorney. i talked to a federal prosecutor who s practiced in front of this judge who told me this judge is very tough on prosecutors, very much by the book. you can get a fair trial in d.c. or in west virginia or wherever. but he s not going to win this change of venue. he s going to have the problem is he allegedly committed the crimes walking distance to the courthouse. you walk right from that courthouse to the capitol building to the white house, the justice department, all the places named in that indictment. there s no way it s going to move out of there. again, maybe this is a political thing, attack d.c. and maybe it will help you with republican voters. but it s not going to help him with this judge to tell her she s not fair when she s got a reputation for being very scrupulous and prot
the capitol. then they say he wanted a ground crew to open fire on survivors. 26-year-old res want fur daz has a degree in physics, now facing terrorism charges. here is more from brian todd. he dealt with undercover fbi agents who were posing as al qaeda operatives. he believed he was dealing with al qaeda operatives. according to a law enforcement official, no indications he had any serious connections to foreign terrorist groups. officials say furdas never posted a danger to the public because the operatives kept such close contact. u.s. military experts are weighing in on iran s plan to send navy ships off the east coast of the united states. the white house and the pentagon have both been pretty dismissive of iran s plan. just hours away from day three of the michael jackson death trial. day two was filled with gripping testimony from jackson employees and his inner circle. they talk about what they saw and heard the day the pop star died. here is what the jury h