You are live in the cnn newsroom. Im jim acosta in washington. Good evening. We are inching closer to i deadline in the governments case against former President Donald Trump over his efforts to overturn the 2020 election. Trumps lars now have about 22 hours to respond to a legal filing from special counsel jack smith. He requested a protective order after trump posted this on social media on friday. If you go after me, im coming after you. Smith wants the judge to limit trump and his legal team from publicly discussing sensitive evidence in the election interference case. Today on cnn we heard from one trump lawyer who says he will fight that protective order. The Defense Attorney also says trump did not tell Vice President mike pence at the time to throw out key electoral votes. He says the key distinction is that trump merely asked. Youre saying that asking is action. No, asking is aspirational. Asking is not action. Its core free speech. What President Trump did not do is direct Vi
former twitter employees who found themselves fired after publicly going back and forth with elon musk on twitter? now, you might remember that after musk took over the platform some of the employees at the time got into these public back and forths with musk. one of them, eric fronhoffer was a twitter engineer who retweeted musk ofrs with a thinking emoji. although he did tell me he s not taking musk s offer seriously. yeah. and here s the other thing too. let s say you get fired because of something you tweeted and you want to sue your employer because of that. elon musk might pay your legal fees. but if you go through mediation or go to a judge or the judge says oh no, you deserve to be fired because you tweeted something in violation of your company s policy, i guess he covers your legal fees but you re still out of a job. you re still in trouble. so i guess i don t understand that. but and musk is also suing this disinformation research group known as the center for countering