Terms mr. Pied biden the president of the u. S. Would agree to be interviewed. And a devastating death toll rising on maui as rescue and recovery teams find more bodies and thousands of residents are homeless along with stranded tourists on an island that looks like a war zone. Good day, everyone, a busy day in washington. Im andrea. Where u. S. District judge Tanya Chutkan made quick decisions this morning on the size and the scope of that protective order in the criminal case surrounding Donald Trumps alleged attempts to overturn the 2020 election. In a ruling from the bench, judge chutkan after prosecutors argued that the order was necessary to prevent pretrial publicity and the defense countered that the pregs counsels parameters were extraordinary decided that the protective order would only apply to sensitive materials and not to all of the evidence turned over to them from the Special Counsel. Judge chutkan also added a clause to the order that would limit the universe of people
Something that he will be able to respond to questions really going forward on because that s really now all in someone who is officially a special counsel s hands. there does seem to have had a pivot point and what a senior justice department official has told us is that this was only a request on tuesday, so that s tuesday, wednesday, thursday, friday we are not at, only a few days before publicly announcing that request, but up until a certain point weiss was saying that he did not feel that he needed to be special counsel. so obviously there s some sort of change more recently that we ve seen and as soon as that request was made to merrick garland within the same week officially making him special counsel is the news we see coming out of doj. certainly something significant here. gosh, it s getting tough to continue to keep track of all the different special counsels we have going at this point. it s another one that could go on potentially for a while and it will be curious to see