Alex. We begin with Breaking News, just minutes ago, the judge in the Election Interference case now ordering Donald Trumps team to respond to the governments motion for a Protective Order again in the election case. Stating their position on the matter by five pm on monday. Requests for Protective Order came after the former president posted on truth social, quote, if you go after me im coming after you. Joining us, now glenn kershner, former federal prosecutor and now msnbc legal analyst. He was in the d. C. Courthouse thursday for trumps first appearance. , glen what is the significance of this Breaking News . Aaron, im surprised that when the judge received jack smiths motion for Protective Order, and jack smith quoted donald trump, you know, when donald trump posted what can only be described as a threat, im not surprised the judge has ordered them to now respond at light speed, as you said, i was in court on thursday i saw the judge admonished donald trump as follows. Mr. Trump,
alex. we begin with breaking news, just minutes ago, the judge in the election interference case now ordering donald trump s team to respond to the government s motion for a protective order again in the election case. stating their position on the matter by five pm on monday. requests for protective order came after the former president posted on truth social, quote, if you go after me i m coming after you. joining us, now glenn kershner, former federal prosecutor and now msnbc legal analyst. he was in the d.c. courthouse thursday for trump s first appearance. , glen what is the significance of this breaking news? aaron, i m surprised that when the judge received jack smith s motion for protective order, and jack smith quoted donald trump, you know, when donald trump posted what can only be described as a threat, i m not surprised the judge has ordered them to now respond at light speed, as you said, i was
in court on thursday i saw the judge admonished donald trump as follows. mr. trump, i remind you that it is a crime to influence a juror, threaten a witness, retaliate against anyone or obstruct the administration of justice. not 24 hours, later we donald trump seems to have done that by posting, if you go after, me i m coming after you. i look forward to seeing how they explained this to the judge. in your, opinion do you think he purposely defied that order? that is what i would be arguing if i wear the prosecutor with representing the interests of the american people. i think he already tried to walk it back and say, well this is just about politics. i was really talking about my opponents in the race for the presidency. but don t think anybody is buying that. right, glenn, stay with us because we re gonna talk to you more about what you saw thursday in just a few minutes. we re gonna backtrack a little. but the federal case against
your line of vision? what can you tell us about the dynamic between them? , yes i was in an adjacent courtroom where there was a live feed from four camera angles. the reporting that i heard from a few reporters we had in the courtroom itself confirmed what i saw, which is donald trump not making eye contact with really anybody. not interacting with anybody. he certainly did not look in the direction of jack smith, whereas jack smith seemed to be focused like a laser beam on donald trump. and then jack smith engaged in pleasantries after they carry with any number of folks in the audience. so yeah, two very different approaches by two very different men. during the course of the brief arraignment hearing. glenn, you said trump did not look at jack smith. but let s talk about what he did do in the courtroom. one pool reporter from abc reported observing trump shake his head and irritation when the judge was reading the
all those theories that were put out, they did not prove to be true. now, mr. trump s next court appearance in the 2020 election probe is in three weeks. that s not slowing down his campaign. trump will be the keynote speaker at tonight s fund-raiser in south carolina for republicans. back to you. back to you that was julie tsirkin. we re gonna head back to glenn kirschner who s just joining us. glenn, what about this timeline of monday at five pm? do you think that s enough time? what do you think the response will be? you know, erin, i have a feeling the response from the defense team will be we agree with the protective order. the protective order is designed to protect the witnesses once the prosecutors turn over the discovery, the evidence to donald trump. to prevent them from disseminating that information, to prevent donald trump from talking about it in his rallies or posting it on his social mediaplform. i fully expect the defense will