I am stephanie ruhle. We begin this evening in washington, d. C. Where lawyers for former president Donald J Trump have responded to Special Counsel jack smith request for a Protective Order in the 2020 election case. Trumps team countered with a narrower Protective Order that would allow him to publicly discuss some of the evidence collected by the government ahead of the trial. The Special Counsels office came back just hours later urging judge chutkan to forego and additional hearing and sign off on the governments proposed Protective Order. Jack smiths team said donald trump once to try this case in the media rather than in the courtroom. And our friend Glenn Kushner Glenn Kirschner said it best last week, judge tanya chutkan, she doesnt play. And we saw that tonight when she wasted no time responding at nine pm on monday night, ordering to see both sides and getting them to agree on a time for a hearing on this Protective Order, on or before this friday. All this after the former
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joe biden is the president. did you hear that? of course he lost. it took years, and an exclusive interview with nbc s dasha burns but ron desantis stop sidestepping and finally admitted what the rest of us already knew. that cold hard truth. that donald trump lost the 2020 election. let s bring in jason johnson, a politics and journalism professor at morgan state university. and mark mckinnon, former advisor to both george gonna be bush, from cain. among the hosts of the circus on showtime. jason, i turned you first. on desantis admitting donald trump lost. is it too little too late? and what does that do to the mega voter that he needs? i ve been saying this for months. i ve said this all through last year stephanie. that literally this is going to be the first question any potential republican debate. who do you think when the presidential election? and here s the catch. you were always in a trap as a republican running against trump. because if you believe that joe biden treate
president explained, that s his son. you understand the perception issue of is that. g like that, though. i do. and do you wish that perception were different? i you always wish there wereys different perceptions, butt th that s not reality. so she used to bet a prosecutor. i thought she would take this a little bitshuld more seriousl who will step up to find out what actually happened with the president, hunter and by the do bj? jose munoz, a former dnc and obama administration officials former, and he joins . jose, my friend, your honorable man. i believan i bel e that you beln the rule of law. look, i got a lot of cousins, some that abided by the rule of law, some that did tha. t caug those that didn t got cuffed and are spending some hard time. they didn t get the bill. the deal that hunter got. do you believe that therdo you d potentially be a two tier system here? o look, i know that, lawrence,
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