michael cohen s cell phone, if you look sad and he can t copy, and he can t transcribed notes. they re really trying to minimize how much of this can leak into the public ahead of the trial. and we all remember that donald trump does pose things on his social media, particularly when he is displeased with an investigation. so how do we get here to the point where the judge felt the need to do this? so this was all from the prosecutors. if you remember at the arraignment they brought up trump s post, because all leading up to the charges he was criticizing the district attorney alvin bragg. he was putting out some pretty inflammatory posts. and even then he was criticizing the judge in this case. so the prosecutor said look, you keep saying all the stuff on social media, can we reign this cnn? the judge was very even-handed. he said i ve been telling both sides prosecution you control your witnesses, defense you control your client, don t put anything on social media that
first, the mar-a-lago classified document investigation. our reporting is that special counsel, jack smith, is going to be home stretch on that. then there s the hush money payments to stormy daniels. that case is set to begin in march of next year, right in the middle of primary season. then there s the georgia investigation into efforts by then president trump to overturn the 2020 election. but even with all of this, the deck is stacked in donald trump s favor for the gop primary. john avlon is here to explain. governor ron desantis plans to seize the gop spotlight tomorrow with a big announcement, it involves elon musk. kara swisher is gonna join our panel to share her thoughts. when is enough fame and money and success enough. lebron james playing the will he or won t he retire game. we ll see what happens going forward. i don t know. i don t know. i ve a lot to think about, to be honest. a lot to be thinking about, to be honest. just for me, personally, going forward w
to hush money payments during the 2016 campaign to adult film star stormy daniels. the judge also imposed some strict rules on donald trump. so, kara, tell us. this is unusual. tell us what the judge went to the length of explaining to donald trump and what happens if he breaks these rules. the crux of this protective order is the judge saying to the former president, any information you get from prosecutors as part of evidence in this case, that could be witness statements, grande prairie testimony, financial records, you can t go and post this on social media. and if you do, there are consequences for this, and among those consequences include sanctions including everything that could lead up to contempt, which he said would be punishable if he didn t get into exactly what that punishment would be. but in addition to, that trump was also restrained from looking at a lot of materials without his lawyers there. and certain materials, including a forensic copy of