Alex. We begin with Breaking News, just minutes ago, the judge in the Election Interference case now ordering Donald Trumps team to respond to the governments motion for a Protective Order again in the election case. Stating their position on the matter by five pm on monday. Requests for Protective Order came after the former president posted on truth social, quote, if you go after me im coming after you. Joining us, now glenn kershner, former federal prosecutor and now msnbc legal analyst. He was in the d. C. Courthouse thursday for trumps first appearance. , glen what is the significance of this Breaking News . Aaron, im surprised that when the judge received jack smiths motion for Protective Order, and jack smith quoted donald trump, you know, when donald trump posted what can only be described as a threat, im not surprised the judge has ordered them to now respond at light speed, as you said, i was in court on thursday i saw the judge admonished donald trump as follows. Mr. Trump,
out of five americans has received a shot. this as those $1,400 stimulus checks are starting to hit bank accounts. but despite the progress being made, there are concerns about the thousands of people who are traveling and attending spring break events across the country. masks and social distancing don t seem to be a priority and health officials are warning of the potential consequences, saying the next few weeks will be critical in determining if we ll see another surge. even though the numbers have gone down, over the last couple of weeks they ve plateaued. when you see a plateau at a level as high as 60,000 cases a day, that is a very vulnerable time to have a surge to go back up. we can avoid that if we continue to vaccinate people, get more and more protection without all of a sudden pulling back on public health measures. and many people are spending their spring breaks in florida. the state is seeing a rush of people despite health warnings. cnn s natasha chen is
where federal cases go before state. cases of, course the real question, is, quote what is ready to go? what is ready to go to trial? you can find there is also civil trials that are pending for donald trump, not just criminal. when it comes to the triage of civil versus criminal, civil usually takes a backseat to criminal. especially if somebody is in custody, and, mind you we don t know if donald trump will stay out of custody while he s pending his criminal cases? criminal will go before civil, and some federal will go before state. however, d.a. of and bragg and manhattan said he will show deference to special counsel, jack, smith if it looks like there s going to be a collision of trial scheduling between jack smith s cases and alvin bragg s case. maybe just maybe we could see that for fulton county d.a., fani willis. we ve had her on record, just the last couple of days say, i m ready to go. of course it depends on whether or not the defense is ready to. go there is going to be s
not only, as daniel and john mentioned, the unusualness of the order of things, civil versus criminal, i can t think we can understate how dramatic it is for a civil proceeding to claim basically that donald trump defrauded the irs. the irs, as far as we know, has not begun or has not shown any signs, i should say, of its investigation. but those are serious federal crimes, evading taxes and evading and misleading intentionally the irs. another thing i think we should keep in mind about letitia james is, all of this work began in 2012 when forgive me, 2019, when michael cohen basically testified to the world that donald trump had inflated and deflated values depending on how it would make him money, whether with reducing his taxes, getting loans, getting insurance.
the city in a wrongful death suit. the family of freddie gray indicated they were likely going to do that but they wanted to wait until the federal investigation was concluded. so what the settlement will do preempts that. the city will now not face a civil lawsuit, rather, the settlement has been reached. so even though, as you say, they are in different buckets, civil versus criminal, doesn t it play have an impact on a case where these six officers have said they re not guilty and yet the city they worked for has said, let me pay the family $6.4 million. isn t that in a way saying, yeah, we did something wrong here? it is, in fact, an admittance by the city that there is certainly enough evidence here that the family would likely be able to win a wrongful death lawsuit. that is a much more lower burden of proof than the criminal case would be in which you have to prove the guilt of the officers. a wrongful death suit is just that, proving that, in fact, this person should not