His lawyers latest moves and the battle of the Special Counsels request for a Protective Order. While jack smith fires back with his own response. Then ron desantis about face on his biggest 2020 election lies, as he attempts to revamp his 2024 campaign. And a look ahead to tomorrows political special election in ohio. What it could mean for the states constitution and the fight for abortion access. As the 11th hour gets underway on this monday night. Good evening once again. I am stephanie ruhle. We begin this evening in washington, d. C. Where lawyers for former president Donald J Trump have responded to Special Counsel jack smith request for a Protective Order in the 2020 election case. Trumps team countered with a narrower Protective Order that would allow him to publicly discuss some of the evidence collected by the government ahead of the trial. The Special Counsels office came back just hours later urging judge chutkan to forego and additional hearing and sign off on the governm
I am stephanie ruhle. We begin this evening in washington, d. C. Where lawyers for former president Donald J Trump have responded to Special Counsel jack smith request for a Protective Order in the 2020 election case. Trumps team countered with a narrower Protective Order that would allow him to publicly discuss some of the evidence collected by the government ahead of the trial. The Special Counsels office came back just hours later urging judge chutkan to forego and additional hearing and sign off on the governments proposed Protective Order. Jack smiths team said donald trump once to try this case in the media rather than in the courtroom. And our friend Glenn Kushner Glenn Kirschner said it best last week, judge tanya chutkan, she doesnt play. And we saw that tonight when she wasted no time responding at nine pm on monday night, ordering to see both sides and getting them to agree on a time for a hearing on this Protective Order, on or before this friday. All this after the former
Wherever you get your podcasts. Cspan, your unfiltered view of politics. We we are back with washington journal. We are joined by joyann reid. She is the author of medgar and myrlie medgar evers and the love story that awakened america. She is also a political analyst for msnbc. Thank you. Guest great to be here. Host remind us about medgar evers. Guest medgar evers was the first field secretary for the naacp in mississippi. Jordan was doing the same job in georgia. He was doing the same job in mississippi investigating the deaths and lynchings of black people and registering people to vote. Host you said you feel that medgar evers has been given a short shift in americas history. Why do you think that happened . Guest if you think about the job he was doing, he was doing the kind of activism that dr. King was doing in alabama and that john lewis was doing in georgia and he is doing it in mississippi which was the most dangerous place to be black in america. The highest number of lynch
on the reidout i m proud to be a pro-life governor and i ll be a pro-life president. of course, i want to sign pro-life legislation. i think it s something that we need to develop a culture of life in this country. the republican presidential candidates except for trump flock to iowa to embrace wildly unpopular issues like an extreme abortion ban. it s surely no way to win a presidential election. plus, desantis in damage control mode after failing to launch without extreme awkwardness and glitchy failures. he s looking to reassure right wing donors and activist said that he s not scott walker or jeb bush. also tonight, new reporting on a target letter sent to the special counsel sent by the special counsel to a trump staffer, which could be an indicator of how jack smith plans to prosecute the classified documents case. but we begin tonight with some advice for the republican party. to win elections you got to read the room. you listen to the american people.
have now disqualified donald trump from appearing on primary election ballots. these decisions are based on an interpretation of the 14th amendment, and trump s actions during and after the 2020 election. but late thursday, california s secretary of state, decided the former president should appear on that states primary ballot. all this sets up an explosive legal and political drama that will inevitably end up before the justices of the nation s highest court. nbc s ryan nobles has more. for the second time in two weeks, a state has ruled that donald trump is ineligible to run for president of the united states. it was not a close call on the question of whether january 6th, 2021, was an insurrection. the events of january 6th 2021 were impressive dented and tragic. reporter: shenna bellows, the secretary of state in maine, a democrat, determined that trump s actions on january 6th constitute a violation of the 14th amendment. the weight of the evidence makes clear tha