Lawyers for donald trump approaching a 5 00 p. M. Deadline as prosecutors push to limit what the former president can say about the federal case against him. And after years of dodging the question, Governor Ron Desantis bluntly said, of course trump lost the 2020 election, as the former president s rival tried to reset his campaign. Plus pink is in the new green. Barbie and taylor twist and beyonce proving to be big business for the u. S. Economy. Welcome to the lead. Im Bianna Golodryga in for jake tapper. We start today with our Law And Justice lead. Donald trump is on the clock. His lawyers have just minutes to let a judge know what they think about a request that would block trump from sharing some of the evidence in the january 6 case. Prosecutors say if trump were to start publicly talking about or posting about evidence in the case, it could have a Chilling Effect on witnesses and they point to this post trump shared on truth social on friday. Where he wrote, quote, if you go a
donald trump said you re too honest and he was approached by a gaggle of crock pot lawyers. that doesn t sound like a witness that will do any good for donald trump. let s turn to atlanta and do you expect this to be a sprawling case with many people charged or a more marrow indictment like the one that we saw last week. it is going to sprawl. i think that is quite clear. fani willis has been investigating this case for two and a half plus years. the special grand jury foreperson told us that they recommended the indictments of over a dozen people. that doesn t necessarily mean fani willis is going to follow that recommendation or that that the actual grand jury is going to do that. but all indications are that this will be a very broad indictment. and the wall street journal, it is interesting to see them report today that lawyers who have worked with fulton county district attorney fani willis in the past expect her to invoke georgia s rico ac. what does that mean.