lead to an indictment in florida. explain a concern with what the judge s potential power is. this judge, she can ask for arguing the law on both sides, and that appears to be what she s doing right now. she s a relatively new judge, and she is asking for something a lot of legal commentators would step back and say, this is typical. you can investigate anywhere where something took place but she is asking for is a little bit more legal explanation about why there s been grand jury activity around the obstruction part of the mar-a- lago documents probe in washington, d.c. and not just in the southern district of florida, where she sits, where this case is charged. there is a deadline set on that, and it s all coming together because there are bigger questions about whether a lawyer for one of the defendants charged in florida, whether he s able to keep representing other people who may be witnesses in that case. there are a lot of steps in a trial, particularly a trial like this on
a protective order that limits distribution of the evidence. she balances the first amendment rights and the need of the defendant to participate in the investigation of the case. with harms that could upset the administration of justice and the administration of this trial. for example, if donald trump get a document with witnesses and then is going to be publicly threatening those witnesses, that could interfere with the trials, so those are the kinds of balancing of rights, and its routine to protect this kind of information . she is surely going to do that. let me ask you a question here because this is a former president who, while president and since he has been president, does not always follow norms, right, as we
special counsel filing. prosecutors asked the court to place restrictions on what trump can do with aunt say about certain evidence in the election interference case. trump s lawyer suppose it could have until 5:00 p.m. eastern time to respond, but today, the client continues lashing out against the judge and the special counsel on social media. that, a key reason for the prosecution s request in the first place. so, is there a concern here that donald trump will share evidence that should not be shared publicly? here is concerned there, yes, of course. that s what the justice department is of anything in this filing, but the deadline today, it s the first of many deadlines in the case, what had to be worked out is how this case moved to trial, how do prosecutors get to share information with the defense. they need to turn over this evidence, very typical in a criminal case. very typical that they have some sort of framework around that evidence so that there
over a dozen, and it s good to have that broad perspective from another prosecutor. something else she is likely to do, focus on georgia. jack smith had a national focus , one nationwide defendants, so i m expecting a broader case and want focusing on the state of georgia. listen, there are a lot of steps to these, but when we look to the special counsel s case at this point, the filing defense lawyers have to respond to today deals with how do you protect, against the former president from revealing in his public comments and social media posts , evidence that is shared from the prosecution of the defense in what is called discovery, some of which is sensitive in this case? what does the judge consider with a decision like this, and what is a judge s power to keep that kind of evidence from getting out there? jim, the judge does have broad powers to do what we call
there. those supporters in georgia eating it up. we now have indictments in manhattan, in the documents case, we have potential indictments coming in georgia and the january 6th federal case. simply put, does his base not care about this unprecedented historic legal peril? well, you picked the right sound bite there. i watched the whole speech and that is really the nub of the argument. there is a big part of his base that accepts that argument. the trump message today boiled down was, these indictments are the deep state going after me because they know i am the only republican candidate who is strong enough to stand up against them for you. and you can see the other republican candidates, by echoing his claim that he is being the victim of politicized or weaponized persecution, are really painting themselves into a corner here. they re basically now in a