Behavior and the stakes. It was a bracing message. He will be treated like any other defendant. Trump did not attend the hearing in washington today, and thats fine. You can have these kind of hearings among lawyers. His defense team entered this morning. We saw that, tracked that. Hearing about what, in other cases, might be a more routine matter. What are the rules of evidence before you go to trial . How can it be discussed . So this is basically the framework, ground rules, you may have heard the reference to a protective order. Now judge chutkan rejected Donald Trumps request to speak in broader general terms about some of that evidence. Hell be restricted from publicly discussing the sensitive materials. The ruling came out late today. The judge says if Defendant Trump receives sensitive materials has part of this case, meaning stuff he might not otherwise get but for being a criminal defendant, his lawyers may not allow Defendant Trump to write down any personally identifying in
shootings that targeted the home of democrats. the arrest warrant detailed the conspiracy he allegedly orchestrated to, quote, cause death and serious injury to democratic officials. and there are disturbing new details tonight including what police say was found in a car that was registered to pena, driven by one of his alleged co-conspirators. fentanyl, nearly 900 pills, as well as more than $3,000 in cash, and two firearms of ammunition. plus, in another story, the question many are asking is, how low can someone go? or allegedly go? because a navy veteran now says that congressman george santos promised to raise funds for life-saving surgery for his cancer-stricken dog before he was ever elected to congress. but then took off with the money. now, santos, for his part, denies this story. and we have his response for you tonight. and there are new details tonight about what investigators found when they searched the home of the alleged killer of four college students in ida
merrick garland announced, because trump declared, in this case very early, there would now be special counsel smith. i am tonight announcing my candidacy for president of the united states. based on recent developments, including the former president s announcement that he is a candidate for president in the next election, i have concluded that it is in the public interest to appoint a special counsel. the announcement was the trigger that changed everything. and up until that point in november, doj under garland and the fbi had been resistant to even starting a probe into trump, let alone indicting him, as smith did. and you can then see how we went from that glacial pace to warp speed. smith appointed november 2022. seven months later, he indicts donald trump in the documents case. i think if we can pull it up, we have an image. two months after that in the coup case. so all of this comes in the
turns out he made the prophecy come true. you can think of trump as an oedipus figure, a man who certainly has a king complex, who tried to gain the system to outrun his fate, only to guarantee it. the background is candidates usually announce presidential runs about six months out. that s what trump did in 2017. but donald trump became the earliest announced presidential candidate in american history, 2022, 15 months, historically early. at the time, people noticed this was his effort to game the system. he figured if he looked like a candidate, he d be less likely to be indicted by the doj. i am curious about this very early announcement. and i m wondering if you think that maybe donald trump is trying to beat the a.g. or any of the other legal officials the doj, you name them? you re right in part. a big reason trump announced his run is he fears criminal prosecution.
want. they have the freedom of speech to say, it s not that we got in trouble for what we did, it is that donald trump is being unfairly attacked, witch hunt, they have the freedom of speech to say that. what the judge is saying in court is, so far, that is a worthless, baseless, zero-type legal claim. which means it won t help them avoid trial, it won t be the kind of thing they ll likely be able to present to the jury, unless they find evidence of it. the judge rejecting the defense claim that the free speech rights are being challenged in court. he has all the free speech to talk out of court. the idea that free speech is a license to a coup or a conspiracy, that s never been true. it s not legally true. we ve heard versions of that from trump s lawyers on air. what the position of the prosecutor is nonsensitive, ordinary evidence should not be disclosed to the press. that s shocking. not only do they want to violate president trump s first amendment rights, they want to violate f