Today on inside politics, law and disorder. Donald trump faces a 5 00 p. M. Deadline to fight a Justice Department request. The former president claims its an attempt to shut him up. Prosecutors say its to stop the defense from Bullying Witnesses into silence. Plus, seeing is believing. Joe biden heads west to literally point to progress. Its part of his plan to make americans feel and see how bidenomics is changing their lives for the better. And a woke up call . New polling suggests a red meat term is now overcooked, even among republicans with plenty of appetite for owning the left. Im dana bash. Lets go behind the headlines and inside politics. Up first, a looming legal deadline, the Trump Legal Team has until the close of Business Today to respond to a Justice Department demand for a protective order. The order would restrict what mr. Trump can say about what evidence prosecutors turn over. Lets start with cnns katelyn polantz. What are you hearing . Dana, this is a typical provis
Up witness david pecker who is at times combative, and jurors largely avoiding looking at trump, but according to those inside the room, giving pecker their rapt attention. For a day filled with details and inside baseball legalese, no small feat. We have a panel of experts standing by to explain it all. Plus, nothing matters more than how the jury is interpreting the Witness Testimony weve seen so far. How are attorneys on both sides analyzing what jurors are taking away from the questioning. Well ask a Jury Consultant. And for the political stakes of this trial, the campaign. The former president announcing new Campaign Events when hes not in the courtroom while President Biden just made a promise that could have a major impact on novembers race. So a lot to get to. We begin with that Redirect Questioning of key witness david pecker, which began just a short time ago. Prosecutors jumping straight into rebutting some key threats from the defense. One key, for example, steinglass, is t
provision placed over all of the evidence that the prosecutors have to give to donald trump s defense team so that they can get ready for trial, and the fight right now seems to be sort of a meta fight over timing because donald trump s team is saying publicly and in court already that they want to go to trial as quickly as possible, but they re refusing to come to some sort of terms with the justice department on one of these nondisclosure provisions, a protective order. so the judge has moved pretty fast here, judge tanya chutkan has set this deadline for 5:00 p.m. today for donald trump s team to respond to the justice department here. trump, too, is on social media essentially saying he s going to oppose this, but we have to wait and see what his lawyers are going to say in court. he s writing, no, i shouldn t have a protective order placed on me because it would impinge upon my right to free speech. deranged jack smith the special counsel and department of
negate this nda, what does it mean for others in the trump universe who have all signed ndas? depends how consistent the provisions are. they were drafted by michael cohen, so if donald trump has consistently used michael cohen to do his dirty work or deeds, then i think you could actually reasonably challenge those nondisclosure provisions in the other ndas that have been executed. but maria is right. what are they trying to hide? i m not very interested in knowing the specific details. daniels definitely had something on donald trump that he didn t want the public to know. michael cohen might say that zpaerpt if it s true or false, the mere allegations could hurt the president and that s why the money needed to be paid at that time. who knows? maria and katy fang, ladies, thank you very much. this hour at the white house, the president is rehashing a decades old debate on video games. up next, we ll talk about the