happened. he shouldn t be surprised and no one else should be surprised. he shouldn t be surprised, nobody else should be surprised, anybody that has followed this story at all, unless they re reading about it on, i don t know, websites run by chinese cults, would know that. everybody around donald trump warned him at the time, if you do this, if you keep moving forward, you are going to be fighting the law for the rest of your life. that was former attorney general bill barr, knowing something about that, making it clear that donald trump has nobody to blame but himself for his many legal troubles because he was warned all along that all of this could happen. good morning. welcome to morning joe. i want to jump right in here. it s friday, august 18th. we ve got the host of way too early white house bureau chief jonathan lemire, former white house press secretary under president biden, now a host, jen psaki and former white house press secretary under president obama ro
it s saturday august 12th, you re watching velshi. i m charles coleman junior filling in for my friend ali velshi. we begin this hour with the latest developments in the fast-moving case of the united states versus donald j trump. there are major developments in the government election interference case against the former president. federal judge tanya chutkan granted the special counsel team request for protective order just yesterday. the protective order seek salute what trump can and cannot disclose about the case, and the trove of evidence that prosecutors are set to turn over to the defense during discovery. now the government requested a protective order that covered all of the discovery materials. but the judge s ruling did not go that far. it does stop trump from publicly sharing quote, material that the government doesn t, designates has sensitive. and quote. this would include things like personal information of possible witnesses, recordings, and transcripts of te
election. though the dispute is technically over the handling of evidence, it s become a proxy war of the ex-president s mob boss tactics. it s a little complicated, but incredibly important. here is where things stand right now. federal judge chutkan was ordered a hearing over the justice department s request for a protective order. the rules governing the process between prosecutors and the defense team. the washington post notes such orders can be technical but are routinely approved by judges to protect witnesses and government investigative methods and priorities by limiting evidence by the defense to people authorized by the court. in its argument for a protective order, the justice department made a nod to the fact that the defendant has prosecutors explained they wanted to immediately turn over evidence to speed defense trial preparations but were concerned in part over trump s history of posting on social media associated with cases against him. trump s defense t
this morning, we are beginning to learn the costs of those devastating fires in hawaii. officials confirmed 80 have lost their lives in the fires that broke out on tuesday. but they warn the death toll will likely rise in the coming days. crews have not yet searched the inside of most of the buildings and it is still unclear how many people are missing. the search is expected to be long, it is expected to be exhausting, and officials say that more than 2200 properties have been destroyed. and fema put the estimated cost of the rebuild from the fire from 5.5 billion dollars. the video shows just the hor horror as the fires as people tried to escape, theview of the fire from lahaina on wednesday as many jumped into the observe ton try to escape the flames. take a look at this tiktok video. it appears to show some of the desperate people in the water after they were forced to jump in to try to save themselves from the fire. cnn has not been able to determine the source, or t
elections, talking to special counsel jack smith. chris krebs is another big name who may have deep insight into what was going on behind the scenes. his team has been axing about his firing and his firing around the time. another team and trump saying what will be after an indictment. the grand jury didn t meet today. why? more of that, coming up. also, disturbing news from the world of basketball. lebron james s son, ronny james, suffered a cardiac arrest during basketball practice at usc and was hospitalized yesterday. he is only 18 years old. so, what happened? how common is this in young, seemingly healthy athletes? we discuss all of that as well as the controversy and covid vaccine conspiracies that always seem to arise in these cases. our sanjay gupta why isn t ahead on. that plus, a threat to impeach president biden is growing as republican house speaker kevin mccarthy ramps up the accusations without offering any verified facts at this moment. how impeachments don