Concerned that evidence sought by his former fixer, michael cohen, and half A Billion Dollar lawsuit, could incriminate the former president. Michael cohen goes on the record, live, a little later. And must see tv. Congresswoman Jasmine Crockett joins us live to make the case for Televising The Trump trials. All of this and more is coming up. And a good saturday morning to you all, im katie phang. We begin this hour with new developments in one of the several cases against the twice impeached, now thrice and dated, one term disgraced ex president. Overnight, the department of justice, seeking to have a federal judge impose a Protective Order on criminal defendant, donald trump. In Special Counsel jack smiths 2020 election case. The doj is concerned, rightfully, in my opinion, that trump will share sensitive and confidential information. And its likes to trumps own inflammatory social media posts in which trump appears to vow revenge. Its important to note that on thursday during trumps
does take the stand, prosecutors want to bring up his past legal issues, including the $355 million civil fraud judgment against him the e jean carroll defamation case. it s costing him what, 91 million and a lawsuit trump filed against hillary clinton that was dismissed for being frivolous and in bad faith, which they want to use to what they call impeach his credibility. and the judge says a hill, announce his decision whether any or all or even more of that might come in on monday. that s all happening as the prosecution today offered to provide the name of monday s first witness to trump s legal team? but not until sunday morning, quote. if that should be tweeted, that will be the last time we provide a courtesy i want to bring in, cnn senior legal analyst and former assistant us attorney for the southern district of new york, elie
assets. all of that is just from the one case the ag took against trump and the da intends to use both of the eiji carol cases against trump if he takes the stand. if he testifies in the case the da will refer to the eiji carol cases in cross-examination. the jury awarded eiji carol 83,800,000 for damages for defamatory statements, the jury awarded the plaintiff 2,020,000 in punitive damages on her sexual abuse claim. the da will also use a finding in a lawsuit trump filed against clinton. court sanctioned the defendant and ordered him to pay 937,000 $989 in fees for filing a frivolous bad-faith lawsuit,
latest trump indictment out of washington, d.c., did you know there s also another legal battle involving the former president taking place right here in the florida court? the 500 million dollar lawsuit trump filed against his former fixer michael, cohen, alleging the spreading of falsehoods and violations of attorney client privilege has hit evidentiary impasse. after cohen requested the production of documents, trump s legal team hits back, citing a quote, self incrimination concern. bloomberg reports quote, trump argued in a court filing wednesday in miami that documents sought by cohen, particularly trump organization financial records, should be covered by a confidentiality order. amid the former presidents separates criminal proceedings. national security attorney bradley moss summed it up best, tweeting quote, yeah. this is what happens when you don t think through your loss before you file it. joining me now is the host of the main culprit and political beatdown podcast, the a
claimed not to hear the recording but did note that he could hear the rustling of the paper in the recording which he did not hear. interesting. interesting, john. sorry, i was looking away from you because i m just not allowed to look at. you it s hard to look away. we are going to move on now before i walk into an hr violation and now to that new lawsuit just filed by donald trump. he s countersuing e. jean carroll. this is just weeks after a jury found that he sexually abused and defamed the former magazine columnist. in this new lawsuit trump claims that carroll defamed him after that verdict when she appeared on cnn. kara scannell is here with more. tell us more of what is in this lawsuit and what donald trump is saying here. yeah, kate. i mean, as you say, donald trump filing this defamation lawsuit and it comes after the jury last month found that trump had sexually abused e. jean carroll and defamed her. she appeared on cnn this morning