Hes the former Nixon White House counsel. John, you and i have spoken about this and donald trump so many times, but, you know, as i was discussing with one of our producers before this program got started, in the past, you know, we would talk about Donald Trumps tweets and his social media posts and wonder what the impact might be. But it sounds as though the Special Counsel in this case, jack smith, is really seizing on this very inflammatory, threateningsounding post from donald trump on truth social and alerting it to the judge. The government arguing that the restrictions that theyre seeking are necessary to prevent trump from publicly disclosing sensitive discovery information. Can you walk us through what this means . Yeah. It looks like the post from trump came out while they were working on a motion to agree upon a protective order in general to Exchange Discovery material. And this obviously caught their attention. This is not the sort of norm that theyre used to dealing with
and maybe some sort of pivot because of a series of defeats like we had in the midterm elections, like we had in 2020. that could drive some changes in the republican party. until that day, lots of threats toward democracy, and frankly some hopes and prayers for our adversaries around the world that they could, again, win through domestic turmoil here in the united states. all right. concern vindman, thanks so much. really appreciate it. thank you. in the meantime, slitting throats on day one. that s what governor ron desantis says he ll do if he s elected president. it s got a lot of people angry including my next guest. stay with us. we ll talk about it in just a moment.