Its saturday august 12th, youre watching velshi. Im Charles Coleman Junior Filling in for my friend ali velshi. We begin this hour with the latest developments in the fastmoving case of the United States versus donald j trump. There are major developments in the Government Election interference case against the former president. Federal judge Tanya Chutkan granted the Special Counsel Team Request for protective order just yesterday. The protective order seek salute what trump can and cannot disclose about the case, and the trove of evidence that prosecutors are set to turn over to the defense during discovery. Now the government requested a protective order that covered all of the discovery materials. But the judges ruling did not go that far. It does stop trump from publicly sharing quote, material that the government doesnt, designates has sensitive. And quote. This would include things like personal information of possible witnesses, recordings, and transcripts of testimony. The def
Presidential campaign could complicate how judge chutkan has to go about crafting rulings in this case going forward? the bottom line is this. they simply cannot forecast all the different ways that donald trump might use the information that s given to him through discovery, and put it, out either on social media, or in rallies, or even on the debate stage. that was always the challenge. it was uncontroversial that there was going to be a protective order. it wasn t controversial, just as you pointed out charles, the reality was, even his own defense team acknowledge that there would be a protective order. and they submitted a protective order that included things like, no, we agreed, he doesn t get actual copies. we show him things. but the parties, the government, and the defense couldn t agree on the contents of the protective order. that too by the way is both common, and non controversial. when that happens, the judge source it out.