Brawl at a riverfront started by a group of white men shoving a Black Dockworker. Right now in ohio, a high stakes Special Election for a proposal to make it harder to change the states constitution. How that could have implications beyond the buckeye state. We begin this hour with the very latest on former President Trumps legal troubles. Trumps legal team and jack smiths office is locked in a battle over a protective order in the election interference case. That order is aimed at protecting the governments evidence before trial, and trump wants something much narrower. The judge over seeing the case is ordering both sides to come together for a hearing together. With us, msnbc legal analyst, lisa ruben. Lisa, lets start off by defining what a protective order is in this case. A protective order, jose, is something that governs discovery in a civil or criminal case. Discovery is essentially the evidence that the government would be relying on whether that is statements by witnesses, t
charge against me, much less a conviction, josé. is this something i mean, nothing in this case has precedent, but is this something you normally hear about in a case like this? yeah. forgive my life for a second, but protective orders are standard in a criminal case like this. perhaps what is not as standard is the broadness the government is asking for. the government here is telling the judge over seeing the case that we need a protective order because this is a person that time and again has shown he cannot be trusted with sensitive information, like witness names or what they may have said, because he will try to get to people and intimidate them and harass them to the point of endangering them. why is this such an important thing for the former president?