Behavior and the stakes. It was a bracing message. He will be treated like any other defendant. Trump did not attend the hearing in washington today, and thats fine. You can have these kind of hearings among lawyers. His defense team entered this morning. We saw that, tracked that. Hearing about what, in other cases, might be a more routine matter. What are the rules of evidence before you go to trial . How can it be discussed . So this is basically the framework, ground rules, you may have heard the reference to a protective order. Now judge chutkan rejected Donald Trumps request to speak in broader general terms about some of that evidence. Hell be restricted from publicly discussing the sensitive materials. The ruling came out late today. The judge says if Defendant Trump receives sensitive materials has part of this case, meaning stuff he might not otherwise get but for being a criminal defendant, his lawyers may not allow Defendant Trump to write down any personally identifying in
A machine whos been in and out of a lot of stories here. Bernie carrick facing questions about the efforts to capitalize on the big efforts after election day, including a kind of grift and questions of wire fraud. Jack myth also continues to probe the elector fraud scheme. Giuliani an Unindicted Coconspirator there. There are new subpoenas that came out in the last week as they bear down on that plot. Meanwhil there may be other people who tried to steal your vote who could be held to account. Some of that, as journalists a little behind where the probe could be. Next the trial. Jack smith sparring with trumps attorneys over the evidence rule, the protective order which has to do with whether donald trump would use or abuse certain information. Theres a new filing where smith and his team are seeking a case that would try this case in the media rather than the courtroom. The Special Counsel referencing media over the past weekend. You see there, what they call the full ginsberg, the p
context of doj rules which prohibit prosecutors from bringing charges too close to an election. here, as you see, trump candidacy, then you have, once that s declared, the doj s smith appointment. then you get, as mentioned, those charges. docs indictment, seven months, then coup. the policy says prosecutors cannot indict or make other actions close to elections. if trump had announced later, like typical candidates, this is the reporting i want to show you. if you just move the timing, if he s used the typical announcement window, well, jack smith appointed, right? there s the announcement window. say if it went seven months out of the normal time, it would have been at december, running into the primaries. probably within the doj s 60-day rule. and it would never happen. we have a special guest for all of this. michael hirsch horn is here to discuss how donald trump played
himself. welcome back, michael. always great to be here. and i don t want to be overly fulsome in my praise, but that s a great analysis. thank you, michael. let s put it back up on the screen. i mentioned this once this week, but there s been a lot going on. i wanted to bring you in. this is the first time we re talking about it live on a friday night. when you look at the hypothetical, the second one we showed, i ll put that back up and you can talk over it. we ll go to the next one. that s what happened, the hypothetical. the typical announcement window is literally what trump did the time before. you save a lot of money and legal headaches if you announce later. that s why candidates in both parties do it. had he just done that, under doj rules, the special counsel probably wouldn t even have been allowed to act within weeks of the primaries. what does it tell you about trump or human nature that, like these ancient tragic tales of thousands of years ago, how running your fate,
starting announcement time, that typical announcement window in the middle. like i said, what romney said, what trump did in his last go around in 2015. if donald trump hadn t been trying to rig and outmaneuver and game the system, if he used the normal time, as you see on the xs, it is right smack with the primaries. the final question, if smith uncovered the indicted crimes maybe he d press on and charge them this the primaries because they are that important. no. doj precedent holds otherwise. any special counsel subject to the rules and the attorney general s supervision. the doj has this guidance you ve probably heard about. prosecutors are supposed to avoid actions of this magnitude within 60 days of voting and never select the timing of an action, including criminal charges for the purpose of affecting a criminal election. that s a policy i can tell you that attorney general merrick