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Calling on a judge to stop donald trump from continuing to claim fbi agents were involved in a plot to assassinate him during his search of his maralago home during the classified documents investigation. Trump made a suggestion in a Campaign Fundraising email and has been repeated by conservative media outlets. Late friday, smith filed a notion in judge Eileen Tenants court saying, those statements create a grossly misleading impression about the intentions and conduct of federal Law Enforcement agents falsely suggesting that they were complicit in a plot to assassinate him smith added that the false statements expose sba agents, some of whom will be witnesses at the trial, to threats of harassment. We have reporters covering all of the developments for you. We will begin with julie sirkin on capitol hill. Julie, welcome. The prosecutors request is different from a gag order, but what exactly are they asking of the judge . Reporter this is a first, let me just say, alex, in this case
Seat at the trump courthouse. I think you got the more dramatic part of the day. Rachel, i have been mostly in the courtroom. Once before i was in the Overflow Room, which is across the hall. This morning i was in the Overflow Room for a few reasons. I woke up late. But you were so gracious at lunch to hand me your Courtroom Pass for the afternoon, which is totally legal. We can do that. s i was in the courtroom for the moment you really wanted to be. You had to be in the courtroom. It was astonishing. I can describe it here when we get started. But, rachel, i have three Exclamation Points in my notes beside the clear the courtroom line, which was, you know judge juan merchan he is the most mildmannered and fair judge. Most judges are fair and obviously. But judge merchan is the model. Its one of the great sacrifices that America Cannot see how eventempered he is. So when he says something with Exclamation Points, which he did. It changes the room. I know youre good to go through this.
Afternoon. I Martha Maccallum and this is the story. We have to warn you with this first video that its very disturbing hard to watch video that appears to show Sean Diddy Combs attacking his exgirlfriend Cassie Ventura back in 2016. Cnn obtained this video just a short while ago. You see him running after her in the hallway on throwing her to the ground. It seems to back up the accusations and venturers lawsuit that she settled last year. We have reached out to diddy us Test Representative and will have more details on what this means for any potential charges against him and were all of this might be heading. Very Disturbing Development breaking late this afternoon in the diddy combs situation. Also ahead this hour Michael Collins former Legal Advisor bob costello who has become very central and a lot of what surrounds the remaining days and hours of this case. He says is called upon he is ready to testify that cohen told him over and over again that he had nothing on former Presiden