review the discovery and talk about it however he wants, the first amendment doesn t have a place in a discovery dispute like this but they are sticking with it, there will be a resolution reached here, the judge will be somewhere in between the protective order the government once and some slightly less broad version, probably more broad though than trump one, and that is how judges use decide, somewhere down the middle, it s good that they provide a redline, working with the protective order that jack smith proposed, not saying through the whole thing out, that s a reasonable approach to work with the judge on and i hope they continue in that vein as we move forward with more pretrial litigation. we know that part of the filing is including political bluster is long with the legal argument, how do you expect the judge will rule in this case? when you take out the
this whole back and forth is call a discovery dispute. it s not uncommon in trials to have one side say this is how we believe evidence should be handled and the other side disagrees. they ll probably work it out in the end. two big issues. what to make of statements trump has made in the past. he hasn t mishandled evidence yet, and the judge will have to assess what do we may of things that happened in the past. and then this idea of what is sensitive material. they go back and forth on how to handle what they deem as sensitive. we of we will find out soon. shan wu, how do you balance with freedom of speech with the harmful effects that the special counsel is warning about? it s actually a tough balance for her here. in some ways it s less about his
you know, this is where a perssn and testify at a deposition. that s important testimony. some of the other revelations in this discovery dispute are that one of mr. trump s former attorneys, mr. smith, ray smith, has also been asked to do a deposition, and has indicated that because he is possibly somewhere between a witness and a target of willis investigation, he would be taking the fifth amendment during that deposition. so the plot thickens there, because that takes us that representation made by mr. smith s own lawyers to try to avoid a deposition in the civil case, that ruby freeman and shea
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evidence that the committee has, and the succeeding department of justice may have. i think the more you see, the more that gets revealed, the closer you get to a determination that one or more laws may have been broken. i d like to see all the evidence and come back to the question at the end of the hearing, six or even, as the case may be. but as the judge has already said in connection with the discovery dispute, it s more likely than not that donald trump and others broke laws, perhaps the obstruction of an official proceeding. but i d like to see the evidence first. ruth, let s focus the point made by the vice chair of the committee, liz cheney on thursday. let s watch. president trump invested millions of dollars in campaign funds purposefully spreading false information, running ads he knew were false and convincing millions of americans that the election was corrupt and he was the true president. as you will see, this