Hes the former Nixon White House counsel. John, you and i have spoken about this and donald trump so many times, but, you know, as i was discussing with one of our producers before this program got started, in the past, you know, we would talk about Donald Trumps tweets and his social media posts and wonder what the impact might be. But it sounds as though the Special Counsel in this case, jack smith, is really seizing on this very inflammatory, threateningsounding post from donald trump on truth social and alerting it to the judge. The government arguing that the restrictions that theyre seeking are necessary to prevent trump from publicly disclosing sensitive discovery information. Can you walk us through what this means . Yeah. It looks like the post from trump came out while they were working on a motion to agree upon a protective order in general to Exchange Discovery material. And this obviously caught their attention. This is not the sort of norm that theyre used to dealing with
Saying if trump were to begin posting details from grand jury transcripts it could have a Chilling Effect on witnesses. Remember this is just 24 hours after his arrest and arraignment in his third indictment over election interference and after the judge warned him against making threats. Lets go straight to john dean, hes the former Nixon White House counsel. And john, you and i have spoken about this and donald trump so many times, but, you know, as i was discussing with one of our producers before this program got started, in the past we would talk about Donald Trumps tweets and his social media posts and wonder what the impact might be, but it sounds as though the Special Counsel in this case, jack smith, is really seizing on this very inflammatory, threatening sounding post from donald trump on truoct to the judge. The government arguing that the restrictions that theyre seeking are necessary to prevent trump from publicly disclosing sensitive discovery information. Can you walk u
Contact us by the disgust he felt watching Media Coverage of the russia story. Not only were most reporters getting it wrong, they were getting it backward. The russians were in fact deeply involved in american politics, but the real story had almost nothing to do with the 2016 president ial campaign. Intrigued, we agreed to meet with at source today. He just left our offices here in washington a couple of hours ago. The story he told us is astonishing. We will be following up on it, confirming more of it and bringing you details about it this week and after. At first, heres an overview of what he told us. Media reports describe Paul Manafort as a central figure in the russia investigation due to the several months he spent as Donald Trumps campaign chairman. According to our source, thats only half true. He is indeed at the center of this investigation, but not because of his ties to trump. In fact, Paul Manafort spent years working with the Podesta Group on behalf of russian governme
more than 25 years. i ve never seen it, and of course we ve seen team owners, players, management all individually support political candidates. mark ladry, the former owner of the milwaukee bucks was one of president obama s chief fund raisers. we ve had kelly lofler, a co-owner of the atlanta dream. and since she was not supportive of the black lives matter movement, her players went out and fund raised and supported her opponent, now senator rafrafael warnock. and all those are examples of individuals supporting their political candidates. and of course betsey devos was trump s education secretary, she s an individual. what upsets these players so much is this donation was not made on behalf of betsey devos or dick devos, it was made on behalf of the players on the teams. you have coaches and players have different beliefs than desantis and now their names are being used in association
than 25 years. i ve never seen it. now, of course we have seen team owners, players, management, all individually support political candidates. marc lasry, the former owner of the milwaukee bucks was one of president obama s chief fund raisers. we ve had kelly loeffler, a former u.s. senator, who is a co-owner of the atlanta dream. since she was not supportive of the black lives matter movement, her players went out and fund raised and supported her opponent, now senator raphael warnock. all of those are examples of individuals supporting their political candidates. in fact, the co-owner of the magic, betsy devos, as we know, was trump s education secretary. she s an individual. what upsets these players so much is that this donation was not made on behalf of betsy devos or dick devos. it was made on behalf of the team. you have players and coaches and executives who have come out publicly with very different beliefs and opinions than desantis . now their names are being used in associ