His lawyers latest moves and the battle of the Special Counsels request for a Protective Order. While jack smith fires back with his own response. Then ron desantis about face on his biggest 2020 election lies, as he attempts to revamp his 2024 campaign. And a look ahead to tomorrows political special election in ohio. What it could mean for the states constitution and the fight for abortion access. As the 11th hour gets underway on this monday night. Good evening once again. I am stephanie ruhle. We begin this evening in washington, d. C. Where lawyers for former president Donald J Trump have responded to Special Counsel jack smith request for a Protective Order in the 2020 election case. Trumps team countered with a narrower Protective Order that would allow him to publicly discuss some of the evidence collected by the government ahead of the trial. The Special Counsels office came back just hours later urging judge chutkan to forego and additional hearing and sign off on the governm
I am stephanie ruhle. We begin this evening in washington, d. C. Where lawyers for former president Donald J Trump have responded to Special Counsel jack smith request for a Protective Order in the 2020 election case. Trumps team countered with a narrower Protective Order that would allow him to publicly discuss some of the evidence collected by the government ahead of the trial. The Special Counsels office came back just hours later urging judge chutkan to forego and additional hearing and sign off on the governments proposed Protective Order. Jack smiths team said donald trump once to try this case in the media rather than in the courtroom. And our friend Glenn Kushner Glenn Kirschner said it best last week, judge tanya chutkan, she doesnt play. And we saw that tonight when she wasted no time responding at nine pm on monday night, ordering to see both sides and getting them to agree on a time for a hearing on this Protective Order, on or before this friday. All this after the former
around. jason? look, there is a certain amount of the republican organization that are just cultists and it doesn t matter. these are the people trump was talking about. i could shoot somebody on fifth avenue and nothing would happen one way or another. it doesn t shock me stephanie. nothing about the current form of the republican organization shocks me. if people look, how can i be surprised that somebody thinks all of these investigations are a deep state planned to take out trump. these are the kinds of people who thought a pizza joint was for child trafficking. right? these are the kinds of people who thought that there were space lasers being put together
they are just feeding off of what trump is telling. and of, course i think long-range, listen we still have six months until iowa. and as we get a fourth indictment, we see more and more polls between now and i will. and we see that well he has strengthened the primaries increasingly problematic for donald trump. in the general election, then this is joe biden. i think that is going to sag. and i think ultimately, the voters who appear to be for donald trump, it s kind of the opposite of 2016. in 2016, it was very unpopular to say your for trump. this cycle, it s unpopular to say you are not for trump. so these are kind of just goes to voters that could easily disappear at the map when i was around. jason? look, there is a certain amount of the republican organization that are just cultists and it doesn t matter. these are the people trump was talking about. i could shoot somebody on fifth avenue and nothing would happen one way or another. it doesn t shock me stephanie. nothing