Hes cocky for a nineteen year old. Youre live in the cnn newsroom. Im jim acosta. There is a new deadline in the new back and forth of the indictment of president trump. The federal judge overseeing trumps Election Fraud case has responded to a court filing from special counsel jack smith that came in last night. Smith wants a protective order after trump posted this social media message late last night. It says, if you go after me, im coming after you. Smith wants the judge to limit trump and his legal team in terms of what they publicly discuss about the sensitive evidence in the case. And the judge has now given the trump team until 5 00 p. M. Monday to respond. Minutes ago, the judge denied a request from the Trump Lawyers to push back mondays deadline. Smith had called it an unnecessary delay. Joining us now to talk about this, jim schultz, a former Trump White House lawyer. Thanks very much for joining us. We appreciate it. Lets start with what the judge is saying. There is now a
justified, gave the prosecution something to go to court on. you worked in the trump white house. wasn t around the 2020 election but early on in the administration. and you know how trump patriots. do you think he s trying to intimidate those involved in the 2020 election case? i can t speak to what the former president is doing with speech. what s going on in his mind as it relates to this. what he does need to be cognizant of is everyone is paying attention to what he s saying. and what he says as it relates to people coming after him and going after them could be taken in the context of, hey, this is a threat against potential witnesses. and everything he says will be viewed through that lens of scrutiny and he will have to be mindful of it. it would be really tough for his lawyers the make him mindful of it. you worked in the trump white house. this is the kind of activity behavior on his part that i would imagine makes trump