Its saturday august 12th, youre watching velshi. Im Charles Coleman Junior Filling in for my friend ali velshi. We begin this hour with the latest developments in the fastmoving case of the United States versus donald j trump. There are major developments in the Government Election interference case against the former president. Federal judge Tanya Chutkan granted the Special Counsel Team Request for protective order just yesterday. The protective order seek salute what trump can and cannot disclose about the case, and the trove of evidence that prosecutors are set to turn over to the defense during discovery. Now the government requested a protective order that covered all of the discovery materials. But the judges ruling did not go that far. It does stop trump from publicly sharing quote, material that the government doesnt, designates has sensitive. And quote. This would include things like personal information of possible witnesses, recordings, and transcripts of testimony. The def
It to our attention. danny, paul and i are both former prosecutors, i want to ask you as a criminal defense attorney sitting with us, if you are donald trump s defense attorney, how concerned are you that while you are in court, trying to deal with the contours of a protective order, your client is on the outside talking about his first amendment rights, what he wants to say, and apparently trying to make it appear that if he wants to vocalize things, where he s going after his opponents, political enemies, or things witnesses in the case, that he s gonna continue to do it. how concerned are you about that? if you d asked me that question in 2016, i would ve told you, criminal defense attorney s clients never help themselves when they go out and speak publicly about their case. strangely for some reason, i can t fathom a lot of criminal defendants feeling like if they themselves are on a podium somewhere, get on social media, will be able to help their case. that s virtually neve
Chokehold, policing blackmon. also with us is danny so fall, is another one of my treasured colleagues. he s a criminal defense attorney, cofounder of snowfall is also an msnbc legal analyst. super excited to talk to two of my favorite lawyers. let s get right into it. paul. the defense invoked this first amendment argument as part of its strategy yesterday. but that is not with this case is actually about. tell our viewers how the protective order actually is going to help ensure a fair trial going forward? so you re right charles. this case isn t about what donald trump said, it s about what he did. the judge is a former federal, actually state prosecutor. a state public defender. she was very fair to donald trump, like she is to every defendant. but she made it clear that she is not going to put up with this typical stuff. so she went along with this