subject to travel. that is he is free to travel domestically, internationally, he can keep his passport. there s not even restriction on him holding firearms. but judge goodman said, what concerned him was trump s continued ability to communicate with his codefendant walt nauta and other members of the case. nauta still works for a president trump and they still dragged every day. and not wanting to deprive walt nauta of his job, but they say trump and nauta can t talk about the case, and then he was about to borrow john breyer byron provided any witnesses in the case. and something against which team trump fought back hard, ultimately where it landed was the department of justice gets to prepare a list of witnesses that it has concerns about
president mike pence, as in hang mike pence, stepped to the mic to address this matter. and look at what he said. this is mike pence speaking tonight, quote, the suggestion that there were documents pertaining to the defense capability united states and our allies, our nuclear program, to potential vulnerabilities of the united states and our allies, even the inadvertent release of that kind of information could compromise our national security and the safety of our armed forces. that testimony to the seriousness of the charges against his former running mate puts mike pence in line with a handful of others in the republican field who have so far shown themselves willing to criticize trump related to this case. last night another one of those republicans former new jersey governor chris christie addressed the issue on the televised town hall on cnn. we re in a situation where people in my own party were blaming doj. how about blame him? he did it.
trump communicating with and trump, subject to that list, may not communicate with those people and it s facts of the case. that, of course, necessitates a question, who is going to catch them, and is this really an order? and that remains to be seen. the department of justice had 13 lawyers in court today. they re certainly not for lack of resources in this instance. lisa, let s make sure that i understand the terms of the way this went and he was asking for what another magistrate judge decided a, was there anything the department of justice, prosecutors asked for today the judge said no to? absolutely not. in fact, the judge, of his own volition is the one who raised the concern about trump communicating with other people. the department of justice appeared to be very happy to go really easy on donald trump as a defendant in terms of the condition of his release. it s magistrate judge john goodman who was the one who had concerns. that s not unusual. in fact he said it s typical
individual judges, let alone who appointed them. in this case, in a matter related to this investigation, this particular judge her name is aileen cannon who is a trump appointee, distinguished herself in taking unusually favorable action toward former president trump. those were words that was the phrase used by the new york times. i think it s apt. i think it s also a description of her remarks that was made even more forcefully by the judges above her, who overturned her and rebuked her and made her shut that part of the case down. because your position, after the court approved search of mar-a-lago, in which they found many, many dozens and dozens of classified documents, as well as surveillance footage that put them down the path that we didn t really learn about until we read the indictment together when it was unsealed. her position was that the government did not necessarily have access to any of that. and before the 11th circuit rebukes her, there was a whole cluster o
that they think that you re biased or should not be presiding over that, and so in addition to the strategically i think it s unlikely we will see. that barry, let me ask you to weigh in on the same question. i agree with brandon. i would also add it was slow things down. the first move that the government makes if it is to seek her recusal, she s not going to do anything else. she s not going to get discoveries started, she s not gonna issue protective orders that allow for the process of disclosing information to take place. she s going to sit on that motion however long she wants to sit on it. and to be honest with you, the department of justice already made a calculation when it set decided to bring this case in the southern district of florida instead of the district of columbia. first of all they knew that there was a not low chance that aileen cannon might be assigned this case on the random we ll. they also, they were making this the decision strategically because of venu