both directed at new york city, and courts here in new york, and justice system, and the district attorney s office. he said that these are irresponsible social media posts, threatened death and destruction, and even world war iii. he said that these public statements to the district attorney, which included a photo of him swinging a baseball bat towards the district attorney s h head, was very concerning. they re concerned about this and what effect it will have on potential jurors and witnesses but they said this will not dissuade the office, and they re seeking a protective order regarding discovery materials. they re very concerned that some of the attorneys some of this may be leaked or that president trump himself would use some of that discovery in a way that would compromise a potential trial. they began discussing conditions of release they talked about how defense attorney joe tacopina had communications with stormy daniels and that could present a conflict in respo
over in january of 2022, her interview gave some evidence as to help understand joyce s excellent point, which is in her interview she was asking about that, and cyrus vance confirmed that when he left office, that the cases that he was doing, that they were investigating, the financial case into donald trump, this hush money case, were not ready, that they were still investigating. so you really get the sense that when d.a. bragg took over and said, you know what? he toll me the investigation, that year-plus period is one where they continued digging, as a good prosecutor would to make sure you ve look at all witnesses and all possible documents. and a quick question to adam reiss who s now on the phone with us, our nbc producer. was there an outcome to the request for protective order to the judge?
spoke for donald trump so donald trump did not say the words not guilty, is that correct? donald trump said not guilty, very firmly, but todd blanch was speaking on behalf of the defense. in terms of the judge, he said we re taking the rhetoric and language donald trump is using very seriously. danny adam reiss, our nbc news producer who is inside that courtroom. and we were sharing resources within nbc news, so forgive us for that he did say again that donald trump was the one to plead not guilty inside that courtroom i do want to go back, andrew weissman, to this question of what the prosecutors are looking for, some sort of relief not necessarily a gag order, but that they made a point to mention that donald trump has been threatening prosecutors, threatening the judge, posted that photo of him with a
who was on the phone with my colleague, alex, a little bit earlier. i want to bring him back into the conversation, jim, and as we learn more details about what is taking place in the airport there, i just kind of want to walk through, first and foremost, what we expect happened there on the ground there. we are learning from a producer that alex just interviewed that this was actually a passenger s gun. his bag was being searched at a tsa, from my understanding, what we learned from this producer and we re going to be getting that producer back on, and when they learned this gun was actually in the bag, it seems as if the passenger reached for the gun, which obviously was loaded, and it was an accidental discharge. correct me, jim, but you can t be walking through as a regular old passenger a loaded gun in your carryon. right. you re not allowed to carry a loaded gun into the cabin of an aircraft unless you re a, you know, federal agent or sky marshal or police officer who s authori
intelligence. get away. seek cover, which is behind something strong, a barricade, the ticket counter, another room. distance is good. cement barriers. and you know, move with purpose. fast walk. get small. get away. that s the smart money, and these things, you know, even if it was a shooter, they only last a couple or three minutes until the police can stop them. in this case, thankfully, it sounded like just one shot, and maybe an accident. jim, stand by for me. i want to bring in jay blackman, our nbc news producer who covers aviation for us who has more information on what took place. jay, i know you re on the phone with alex a little bit earlier but walk us through what we re learning at this hour per the details of what actually took place and any motives we may know at this point. sure. good afternoon, yasmin. from what persons are telling me, a passenger went through the checkpoint in atlanta, had a weapon, whether it was a