Go that far. It prevents trump from publicly sharing materials that quote, the government designates as sensitive. That includes things like personal information of possible witnesses, recordings, and testimony. The defense argued a protective order would infringe on trumps First Amendment rights. But chechen noted quote, the need for the criminal case to proceed in no order, and to protect the integrity of the process means theyre gonna have to be limits on the defendant speech. And later in the hearing, she emphasized that trump is quote a criminal defendant. He is going to have restrictions like every single other defended. It was the first time both sides met in a courtroom with trusted, this Federal Judge assigned oversee the case. Well meet with her again in a few weeks, on august 28th to disrupt the, discuss the trial date. The Special Counsel Team that is proposed starting that trial on january 2nd 2024. That is a sign of how fast the government wants this case to move forward.
certainly something like moving towards contempt, or putting him in prison. i think they re in a tough position. i think that george chutkan has shown is she serious about this. and if he continues to act in threatening ways, or ways that could influence witnesses, she will take those steps, as difficult as that maybe. no, i want to sit with you for a moment. this, week the new york times reported that two prominent conservative have both concluded that the 14th amendment disqualifies donald trump from holding office. i find it interesting that you and your organization crew have been making the same arguments as well. what do you think about what was reported in the times? and you intend to follow up on that in any formal fashion? absolutely. we actually were successful last year in removing in
was pursuing investigation, that he was going to leave, lead others to do something with. the impeachments for the same thing. it was a congressional proceeding. it was not in a courtroom. this is different. he is not used to it. and he is really playing with fire. i think judge chutkan has said, if you choose to talk about evidence that you see, or if you choose to talk about anything that s become public in an evidentiary way in this trial, i will hold you to account. she s given him a first warning, i expect others to come, he s not an easily silence person as we all know. to that point no, a trump has not been easily silenced. he has continued to really push the limits in terms of publishing different things on his truth social platform, including one truther, or whatever they re called, that cites a government filing last week. in that when he says, if you go after me, i m coming after you. do you really think that there is any judge, whether it s
that s, she s in charge of this courtroom. i think she wants to make that very clear going forward. she is someone who has been tough on some of these other january six defendants, and several defendants have been sentenced to longer sentences and the government suggested. in her courtroom, she s made clear that january six was a major event. i also found it interesting given her background as a public defender. she is definitely emphasized how privileged some of the defendants coming in for january six have been, compared individual she had represented. who had a much more difficult life. that s been a really interesting background that judge chutkan has brought to the courtroom. brian riley, thank you so much. with me now is tim o brien, the senior executive editor of bloomberg opinion. and also the host of the podcast crash course, an msnbc political analyst. also joining us is noah brooke find, our president and ceo of