Today on inside politics, law and disorder. Donald trump faces a 5 00 p. M. Deadline to fight a Justice Department request. The former president claims its an attempt to shut him up. Prosecutors say its to stop the defense from Bullying Witnesses into silence. Plus, seeing is believing. Joe biden heads west to literally point to progress. Its part of his plan to make americans feel and see how bidenomics is changing their lives for the better. And a woke up call . New polling suggests a red meat term is now overcooked, even among republicans with plenty of appetite for owning the left. Im dana bash. Lets go behind the headlines and inside politics. Up first, a looming legal deadline, the Trump Legal Team has until the close of Business Today to respond to a Justice Department demand for a protective order. The order would restrict what mr. Trump can say about what evidence prosecutors turn over. Lets start with cnns katelyn polantz. What are you hearing . Dana, this is a typical provis
after you. that was a donald trump post. so you file something really late, a request like this late on a friday afternoon. as we know, judges they don t tend to work on summer fridays so you are not going to get an answer. there is suggestion inside the trump camp that they were upset about the social media post which feeds into this narrative, they re arguing somehow this effort to infringe on trump s free speech. that s not what they re getting at here. they want to make sure if he reads a sensitive part of a grand jury interview or some other key piece of evidence he is not going to throw it up there on social media. i was told usually this is handled on a piece by piece, evidence by evidence basis as opposed to one blanket order but this is certainly not a gag order and no one is infringing on his first amendment. this is the opening salvo and maybe it will set the table for how the judge handles both sides. let s look at the big picture of this case. i spoke with john lauro w
evidence basis. we re going to let the economy and the data that comes in really inform how we approach our interest rate policy as well as our tapering policy. we ll be ready. we re not going to let inflation get out of control. we ve seen gas prices rise the last year. is this driving inflation or is the supply chain issue driving it or is there something else that is driving inflation? well, i would say first of all, it s covid that is driving the inflation. one of the things that we ve seen is covid has really disrupted supply. so there s supply chain issues all over the economy. covid has caused a lot of american families to not be able to spend the way they had through their first 1 1/2 years of the pandemic. that pent up demand is revealing itself to the marketplace. if you have higher demand and less supply, you re going to see inflation. so one of the things i m really looking at is to what extent can