Behavior and the stakes. It was a bracing message. He will be treated like any other defendant. Trump did not attend the hearing in washington today, and thats fine. You can have these kind of hearings among lawyers. His defense team entered this morning. We saw that, tracked that. Hearing about what, in other cases, might be a more routine matter. What are the rules of evidence before you go to trial . How can it be discussed . So this is basically the framework, ground rules, you may have heard the reference to a protective order. Now judge chutkan rejected Donald Trumps request to speak in broader general terms about some of that evidence. Hell be restricted from publicly discussing the sensitive materials. The ruling came out late today. The judge says if Defendant Trump receives sensitive materials has part of this case, meaning stuff he might not otherwise get but for being a criminal defendant, his lawyers may not allow Defendant Trump to write down any personally identifying in
anybody engaged in the day-to-day law that was some of the back and forth. it wasn t university utterly minute dawn. we also gave him time and we learn from guests, as you know. i m curious, not on the law, but why we come to you sometimes as a really insightful analyst of what some call the spectacle of politics. what do you see in what seems like a bad or weak argument? coups are mundane, or the component parts are mundane. what do you see them doing here as they head into an election? trying to say, this was just one more normal thing? i think it s part of a kind of standard post-truth toolkit, which is deflection, what-ery, belittlement. this is the case of sort of, if you continually say this is mundane, perhaps enough people will believe you. you start feeling ridiculous.