Even as she gave a nugget to the Trump Defense team of not defining everything as sensitive materials, she took it away by making clear that anything that the government was concerned about in terms of both impairing the jury pool and also going after witnesses, would violate the order anyways. Judge chutkan also warned trumps lawyers that continued inflammatory statements from their client would only increase the need for a speedy trial. Also, in washington, attorney general Merrick Garland called a surprise Press Conference to announce the appointment of a Special Counsel in the hunter biden probe. Tuesday of this week, mr. Weiss advised me that, in his judgment, his investigation had reached a stage at which he should continue his work as a Special Counsel. And he asked to be so appointed. Upon considering his request, as well as the extraordinary circumstances relating to this matter, i have concluded that it is in the Public Interest to appoint him as Special Counsel. The white ho
president and you might get this in january. john, you re not going to see me advocating t to delay this, however the said say that they are going to hand over 11 million pages of discovery. we know that trump is already facing some cash flow problems, but put that aside. he does not have major law firms representing him. with dozens and dozens of young people and researchers who can pour through this. he has got a couple of guys who basically had to sign off and leave their firms in order to work with him. how on earth are they going to go through this? how is his legal team going to face him? that s the right question, stephanie, and as our colleague lisa ruben pointed out earlier today, one of the trump lawyers effectively said that they re going to have to have volunteer lawyers for the people who aren t getting paid because there s not enough money to pay people to