Hes cocky for a nineteen year old. Youre live in the cnn newsroom. Im jim acosta. There is a new deadline in the new back and forth of the indictment of president trump. The federal judge overseeing trumps Election Fraud case has responded to a court filing from special counsel jack smith that came in last night. Smith wants a protective order after trump posted this social media message late last night. It says, if you go after me, im coming after you. Smith wants the judge to limit trump and his legal team in terms of what they publicly discuss about the sensitive evidence in the case. And the judge has now given the trump team until 5 00 p. M. Monday to respond. Minutes ago, the judge denied a request from the Trump Lawyers to push back mondays deadline. Smith had called it an unnecessary delay. Joining us now to talk about this, jim schultz, a former Trump White House lawyer. Thanks very much for joining us. We appreciate it. Lets start with what the judge is saying. There is now a
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he s going to open himself to more and more scrutiny and be subject to sanctions and other things inside of this case that could cause him real trouble. the judge was very clear in her initial hearing, it s a crime to intimidate witnesses, bribe witnesses, say and make threats against witnesses. that s a crime. she warned him specifically of those issues. right. and i guess that brings me back, i suppose, to the original question that i had. for trump to do this, 24 hours after he was arraigned, it clearly appears to be, i mean, they re going to say, he didn t say specifically anything about anybody involved in this case. but the inference is there. does the judge at this point have what she needs to essentially put some guardrails on trump and say, no more social media posts? you re done?