Lawyers for donald trump approaching a 5 00 p. M. Deadline as prosecutors push to limit what the former president can say about the federal case against him. And after years of dodging the question, Governor Ron Desantis bluntly said, of course trump lost the 2020 election, as the former president s rival tried to reset his campaign. Plus pink is in the new green. Barbie and taylor twist and beyonce proving to be big business for the u. S. Economy. Welcome to the lead. Im Bianna Golodryga in for jake tapper. We start today with our Law And Justice lead. Donald trump is on the clock. His lawyers have just minutes to let a judge know what they think about a request that would block trump from sharing some of the evidence in the january 6 case. Prosecutors say if trump were to start publicly talking about or posting about evidence in the case, it could have a Chilling Effect on witnesses and they point to this post trump shared on truth social on friday. Where he wrote, quote, if you go a
if a person merely said, hey, public official, i hope you will do things this way or that way, that is hard to make that into a crime. but i think jack smith s position is donald trump did much more than merely benignly ask mime pence to do soming. he pressured him to do something that they both understand was unconstitutional and against the law. and it is important that we not pars out each fact on its own and say is that a crime in and of itself. prosecutors are going to urge the jury, it is not just about the conversation between donald trump and mike pence, that is part of the broader fraud and the broader conspiracy that we ve charged here. what did you make of lauro also saying that they believe mike pence will be one of their best witnesses at this trial? boy, i presume he knows more than i did. but based on the indictment, i don t think that is correct. it is clear that prosecutors are relying on mike pence as one of their key witnesses. there are paragraphs that are based