after news broke that a federal judge in d.c. denied it team trump s hope for three more days, to respond to the doj s request for protective order. the deadline remains monday, five pm, despite the push from trump s lawyers. the government is seeking a protective order to keep trump from publicly disclosing evidence gathered during the dust disappointments sprawling investigation. and to keep him from threatening potential witnesses. special counsel s office wants this all to have been quickly. in a new filing they say, quote, the government stands ready to press send on a discovery production. the defendant is standing in the way. and the request for protective order, the special counsel s office cited this social media post from trump, reading, quote, if you go after me, i m coming after you. the prosecutors argued to trump s rhetoric and possible use of grand jury transcripts could have a chilling effect on witnesses. this afternoon on msnbc, u.s. delegate, stacey plasket
campaign manager, rodriguez, about what we can expect next november. the minnesota secretary of state, steve simon, what his state is doing to safeguard the next election and the next time around. this is american voices. we begin this hour with breaking news. donald trump launched new attacks on his former vice president, mike pence. the attacks coming moments after news broke that a federal judge in d. c. denied it team trump s hope for three more days, to respond to the doj s request for protective order. the deadline remains monday, five pm, despite the push from trump s lawyers. the government is seeking a protective order to keep trump from publicly disclosing evidence gathered during the dust disappointments sprawling investigation. and to keep him from threatening potential witnesses. special counsel s office wants this all to have been quickly. in a new filing they say, quote, the government stands ready to press send on a discovery production. the defendant is s
welcome to bbc news. at least ten people are reported to have been killed following an explosion in the st petersburg train system. an emergency services source has been quoted by reuters as saying there was a single blast on a train between stations. the st petersburg metro between stations. the st petersburg m etro syste m between stations. the st petersburg metro system has now been shut down. the russian president, vladimir putin, who was in st petersburg for a meeting with the leader of belarus said the cause of the blast was not clear and efforts were under way to find out. he said he was considering all possibilities, including terrorism. our russia correspondent sarah rainsford was speaking to us from moscow earlier. we have heard from the governor s office in st petersburg who is talking about 50 people being injured and we have heard from a number of sources suggesting that as many as ten people might have been killed. that s not been confirmed yet. we know some peo