It is friday and we have got a fantastic night crap grew recapping week it was, about lets talk about the day that is and we saw major developments in cases that involved the current former president. Judge Tanya Chutkan issued a protective order in dont rams 2020 election interference case after Hearing Arguments from the government and trump. She put everything that has to do with witnesses in the compartment of it and sensitive information. Not just grand jury witnesses, anyone that the government had interviewed. That is the first thing. And the second thing is that, even as she gave a negative to the Trump Defense team of not defining everything as sensitive materials, she took it away by making clear that anything that the government was concerned about in terms of both impairing the jury pool and also going after witnesses, would violate the order anyways. Judge chutkan also warned trumps lawyers that continued inflammatory statements from the client would only increase the need
interview into the investigation of his handling of classified documents, that includes negotiations over when and where such an interview would take place and the scope of the questions. with that, let s get smarter with the help of our leadoff panel this evening. jon allen is here, senior national politics reporter for nbc news, the initial washington correspondent for the atlanta journal-constitution, former republican congressman david jolly of florida and an msnbc political competitor, and former federal prosecutor or not to marry, adi ease also a legal affairs columnist for politico. ronaldo, let s start with his protective order. what are your thoughts? well, i really think that this is a loss for trump. if you played a clip a moment ago about how it was a split decision. i actually think that the judge chutkan it made a very wise decision here by not trying it to gather too much on these first amendment issues, but