Concerned that evidence sought by his former fixer, michael cohen, and half A Billion Dollar lawsuit, could incriminate the former president. Michael cohen goes on the record, live, a little later. And must see tv. Congresswoman Jasmine Crockett joins us live to make the case for Televising The Trump trials. All of this and more is coming up. And a good saturday morning to you all, im katie phang. We begin this hour with new developments in one of the several cases against the twice impeached, now thrice and dated, one term disgraced ex president. Overnight, the department of justice, seeking to have a federal judge impose a Protective Order on criminal defendant, donald trump. In Special Counsel jack smiths 2020 election case. The doj is concerned, rightfully, in my opinion, that trump will share sensitive and confidential information. And its likes to trumps own inflammatory social media posts in which trump appears to vow revenge. Its important to note that on thursday during trumps
You are live in the cnn newsroom. Im jim acosta in washington. Good evening. We are inching closer to i deadline in the governments case against former President Donald Trump over his efforts to overturn the 2020 election. Trumps lars now have about 22 hours to respond to a legal filing from special counsel jack smith. He requested a protective order after trump posted this on social media on friday. If you go after me, im coming after you. Smith wants the judge to limit trump and his legal team from publicly discussing sensitive evidence in the election interference case. Today on cnn we heard from one trump lawyer who says he will fight that protective order. The Defense Attorney also says trump did not tell Vice President mike pence at the time to throw out key electoral votes. He says the key distinction is that trump merely asked. Youre saying that asking is action. No, asking is aspirational. Asking is not action. Its core free speech. What President Trump did not do is direct Vi
Need. The American People want to know the truth. Whats what our committee has been doing. This is a diversionary tactic. Bring it on. Ukraines Intelligence Services foiled a russian plot to assassinate zelenskyy. Ukraine russia fired nearly 500,000 shots at ukraines forces in the past seven days. Western officials are telling cnn they are getting increasingly sober updates on ukraines counteroffensive. Arrest warrants issued in this massive brawl in montgomery on a boat dock. Many questions remain about the melee that appeared to be very much split across racial lines. Doing his job, and for some reason they didnt like it. Its an unfortunate incident. Shouldnt have happened. Something we are investigating right now. Good morning. Top of the hour. So glad you are with us. Victor blackwell with us all week. Good morning. Good morning. A lot to get to, especially that Video Everyone is talking about. Unbelievable. Its creating memes across the internet. We will get into that. Starting wi
Good to be with you. Im katy tur. This morning when nikki haley announced she was dropping ouch the race, a huge swath of voters got thrown back into play. They followed four distinct buckets, the ones who will never vote for donald trump, the ones who grudgingly will vote for donald trump, the ones who are willing to switch over to joe biden and the ones who will throw up their hands and stay home. It is that third category, the ones willing to switch that both sides will now try to win over. What are their issues and what will the candidates do to get them . Joining us now from charleston, south carolina, nbc news correspondent ali vitali, and in west palm beach, florida, covering the Trump Campaign, nbc news correspondent, garrett haake. So ali, you have been talking about the haley voters, what they like, what they dont like. What theyre looking for, this is from voters in utah, gathered yesterday. Thats a really good question. Its probably going to be biden just because its been f
After you. So, what the government has said is that, at this point, this becomes dangerous for them. They have got to give over evidence, and its for 16 pm 4 16 pm if donald trump uses his comments to the press what is go after you mean . Who is he coming after . Witnesses . People who are named . The government has says said, if the government were to im quoting now from the document that we are looking to just get we will have it in a few minutes. But this is what kyle cheney has posted. If the defendant were to begin issuing public posts using details or, for example, a grand jury transcripts obtained in discovery here, it could have a harmful Chilling Effect on witnesses, or adversely affect the Fair Administration of justice in this case. They have written a lot about precedent in these instances. So, basically what is happening is, the Trump Defense team has asked for all the information that they need to move forward with their defense. That is expected. The government has said,