Hes cocky for a nineteen year old. Youre live in the cnn newsroom. Im jim acosta. There is a new deadline in the new back and forth of the indictment of president trump. The federal judge overseeing trumps Election Fraud case has responded to a court filing from special counsel jack smith that came in last night. Smith wants a protective order after trump posted this social media message late last night. It says, if you go after me, im coming after you. Smith wants the judge to limit trump and his legal team in terms of what they publicly discuss about the sensitive evidence in the case. And the judge has now given the trump team until 5 00 p. M. Monday to respond. Minutes ago, the judge denied a request from the Trump Lawyers to push back mondays deadline. Smith had called it an unnecessary delay. Joining us now to talk about this, jim schultz, a former Trump White House lawyer. Thanks very much for joining us. We appreciate it. Lets start with what the judge is saying. There is now a
monday to respond. minutes ago, the judge denied a request from the trump lawyers to push back monday s deadline. smith had called it an unnecessary delay. joining us now to talk about this, jim schultz, a former trump white house lawyer. thanks very much for joining us. we appreciate it. let s start with what the judge is saying. there is now a dead line of 5:00 p.m. on monday for trump s legal team to respond. this will stand after the judge denied a trump motion to push it back. they ve wanted this to be pushed back until thursday, it sounds. that, how does that monday deadline sound to you? what do you make of everything that has transpired over the last 24 hours? you have trump on social media last night putting out this threat, essentially, one day after he was arraigned in washington. i would imagine as a former trump attorney, you would have advised him not to put that out there, given that this judge on thursday was admonishing him to be very careful about