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
most powerful people in the world, and yet they want to solve their differences in a cage fight. well, now elon musk tweeting today that the fight will be, quote, livestreamed on x and all proceeds will be going to charity for veterans. now, zuckerberg on threads, where else, countered, poking fun at twitter s reliability issues as of late saying that the fight should be on a, quote, more reliable platform. he says he s ready to fight any day. so the question is, jim, who are you taking? i think the other question is, jon, who s going to be watching. why would i want to watch those two guys beat each other up? i just i guess i ll watch a little. jon sarlin pure moments in modern reality. zuckerberg did do that surfing thing with the thing that came out of the water. maybe that gives him an edge. i don t know. i m just guessing off the top of my head. all right, jon, we ll be watching. thanks so much. jon sarlin. we ll be right back.