Today on inside politics, law and disorder. Donald trump faces a 5 00 p. M. Deadline to fight a Justice Department request. The former president claims its an attempt to shut him up. Prosecutors say its to stop the defense from Bullying Witnesses into silence. Plus, seeing is believing. Joe biden heads west to literally point to progress. Its part of his plan to make americans feel and see how bidenomics is changing their lives for the better. And a woke up call . New polling suggests a red meat term is now overcooked, even among republicans with plenty of appetite for owning the left. Im dana bash. Lets go behind the headlines and inside politics. Up first, a looming legal deadline, the Trump Legal Team has until the close of Business Today to respond to a Justice Department demand for a protective order. The order would restrict what mr. Trump can say about what evidence prosecutors turn over. Lets start with cnns katelyn polantz. What are you hearing . Dana, this is a typical provis
committee and other former cabinet members. they are in negotiations to do the same. yet, there are some things that neither the justice department nor the january six committee may ever find out. the washington post reported this week that even more testimony and text messages sent and received by federal employees around the time of the insurrection were deleted. they may be gone forever. this latest news involves the phone records of former acting homeland security secretary, chad wulf, and his acting deputy secretary ken cuccinelli. the situation closely resembles the recent revelations of the secret service may have also deleted and failed to preserve text messages that may be relevant to the january six investigation. including, from the phones of agents who were signed to donald trump on the day of the insurrection. for more on this, i am joined now by his betsy who is a national correspondent for politico. she is also an msnbc contributor. so, betsy, let s start with
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Spectroscope and that, that energy field, i would be very interested in hearing what she has to say. To me, it was completely indiscernible. Standby, mary trump has the y answer. Thank you, rachel. For the jury filed into the courtroom today to hear testimony in the case of the people of the state of new york versus Donald J Trump, judge merchan issued his ruling to the lawyers of what would actually happen to donald trump if he were to testify in his own defense in this trial. No, of course, before the judge issued his ruling about what evidence the prosecution would be allowed to use to attack Donald Trumps credibility as ad witness, there was absolutely no reason to believe donald so trump was going to actually testify in his own defense. Donald trump is incapable of telling the truth and that would become quickly obvious to the jury, who would probably ju find themselves watching donald trump commit perjury and probably concluding that they were watching him committing perjury. So,