Dozens of lavish vacations. The new reporting raising new ethical questions for the Supreme Court justice. Im Jonathan Capehart this is the Saturday Show. Republican president ial hopefuls are facing a Digital Campaign test this week. The Iowa State Fair. The fair, home of the Famous Butter Cow Sculpture is a right of passage for candidates to make their pitch directly to voters. Florida Governor Ron Desantis and former South Carolina governor nikki haley are set to make an appearance this morning. But they have a lot of ground to cover to catch up to the parties front runner. A recent poll by the New York Times and Siena College shows donald trump leading desantis by 24 points in the state. Trump plans to attend the fair later today, despite facing fresh new legal troubles, including a trial that could take place before the Iowa Caucuses on january 15th. Special counsel jack smith has proposed a trial date of january 2nd for the 2020 Election Interference Case. But we will have to wai
Go that far. It prevents trump from publicly sharing materials that quote, the government designates as sensitive. That includes things like personal information of possible witnesses, recordings, and testimony. The defense argued a protective order would infringe on trumps First Amendment rights. But chechen noted quote, the need for the criminal case to proceed in no order, and to protect the integrity of the process means theyre gonna have to be limits on the defendant speech. And later in the hearing, she emphasized that trump is quote a criminal defendant. He is going to have restrictions like every single other defended. It was the first time both sides met in a courtroom with trusted, this Federal Judge assigned oversee the case. Well meet with her again in a few weeks, on august 28th to disrupt the, discuss the trial date. The Special Counsel Team that is proposed starting that trial on january 2nd 2024. That is a sign of how fast the government wants this case to move forward.
good morning, it s saturday august 12th and you re watching velshi. i m charles coleman junior, filling in for my friend ali velshi. we begin this morning with the latest developments in the fast-moving case of the united states versus donald j trump. there are major developments in the governments election interference case against the former president. federal judge tanya church can judge a grand of the special counsel team requests for protective order just yesterday. their protective order ceased to limit what trump can and cannot disclose about the case, and the trove of evidence that prosecutors are looking to turn over to the defense during the discovery process. now the government has requested a protective order that covers everything into schoharie. but the judges really does not
different angles. when i looked at it walking by there, it looks like a layered defense. military terms, layered defense. barriers for vehicles, initial scans for the people. inside they have plain clothes officers. they re doing everything they can to make that safe. some of those barriers, you have the big cement blocks. the nypd brings in blocks. no vans driving into that area. more on that throughout the morning. right now we ll get to the news head lines. we ll start with this. fox news alert. the mother of the affluenza teenager is back in the united states while her son remains at a mexican teen facility. tanya church is back. a judge temporarily blocked her son for an unknown amount of time. tanya and ethan couch were arrested on monday, two weeks after ethan missed a probation check in texas. back in 2013 if you ll remember ethan couch killed four people in a drunk driving accident but never got jail time because a psychologist argued he was too rich to know any better