Between former President Trump and special counsel jack smith. A short time ago, the federal judge overseeing trumps election case responded to a court filing from smith theres night. Smith is seek a protective order after trump posted this yesterday evening, saying, quote, if you go after me, im coming after you. Smith is pointing to that message and asking the judge in the case to set limits on trump and his legal team when it comes to publicly discussing sensitive evidence and the judge has given the trump team until 5 00 p. M. This sunday to respond. Just this afternoon, lawyers asked a judge for more time to weigh in on what restrictions should be imposed. Joining us now to discuss, democratic congresswoman Veronica Escobar of texas. Thanks for joining. When you saw these words that trump wrote in that threatening post, what did you think of that . What was your concern there . Well, good afternoon, jim. It was as predicted. I mean, i knew he would not be able to help himself. He
it handed over its recommendations in february, after interviewing more than 75 witnesses, including some of the biggest anymores in trump s orbit. mr. giuliani, when you met with georgia lawmakers, did you lie to them? we will not talk about this until it s over. it s a grand jury, and grand juries, as i recall, a secret. reporter: trump s former attorney, rudy giuliani is among the list of trump associates who received letter from at d.a. indicating he s a target of the investigation. in the months after trump s loss in georgia, giuliani met with georgia lawmakers at the state capital three times, spreading conspiracy theories and election interference lies. i thought they were trying to steal something from me. reporter: independent atlanta based journalist george cheedy stumbled into the group of electors. this week he received a subpoena to appear before the grand jury. once the grand jury hears the case it will be in their hands to decide whether or not to issue indictm