Its saturday august 12th, youre watching velshi. Im Charles Coleman Junior Filling in for my friend ali velshi. We begin this hour with the latest developments in the fastmoving case of the United States versus donald j trump. There are major developments in the Government Election interference case against the former president. Federal judge Tanya Chutkan granted the Special Counsel Team Request for protective order just yesterday. The protective order seek salute what trump can and cannot disclose about the case, and the trove of evidence that prosecutors are set to turn over to the defense during discovery. Now the government requested a protective order that covered all of the discovery materials. But the judges ruling did not go that far. It does stop trump from publicly sharing quote, material that the government doesnt, designates has sensitive. And quote. This would include things like personal information of possible witnesses, recordings, and transcripts of testimony. The def
Policing blackmon. now, paul, this is a complicated issue. this is no, problem cash bail does not mean the same thing to everybody. but let s use the new york examples. in 2010, there was a 16 year old he was allegedly arrested for stealing a backpack, he was put in rutgers jail, he and his family could not afford to post $3,000 bail. there also reports that he was severely abused, he was tortured, beaten up, he spent three years three years in solitary confinement, and then the charges against him were dropped. he suffered ptsd any touches on life two years later at the age of 22. just one example, in honor, no you must have thousands of examples of why people look at the same treatment based on whether they have money or not. these trump related prosecutions, ali, we are seeing all these elite white people become ensnared in a
Take his own life. paula, to talk to his, always thank you for giving someone else on this, and hopefully something that people can think about a little bit about what is going on in their own communities and how to motivate some change to the cash mail system. paul s informal peril federal prosecutor and msnbc legal analyst, he s also the author of the book chokehold. policing blackmon. all, right on history, show we talked about vivek ramaswamy, the charismatic 38-year-old presidential candidate who is a dangerous conspiracy theorist. the more proof of that? ramaswamy is now acquitting some prominent black americans to, quote, grand wizards of the modern kkk, and quote. coming up next, i will talk to one of the people name checked by the candidates bestselling author abram ex candy, about the disinformation that ramaswamy is spewing, and how dangerous it can be. ous it can be. (dad) we got our subaru forester wilderness to discover all of the places that make us feel something mo
Chokehold, policing blackmon. also with us is danny so fall, is another one of my treasured colleagues. he s a criminal defense attorney, cofounder of snowfall is also an msnbc legal analyst. super excited to talk to two of my favorite lawyers. let s get right into it. paul. the defense invoked this first amendment argument as part of its strategy yesterday. but that is not with this case is actually about. tell our viewers how the protective order actually is going to help ensure a fair trial going forward? so you re right charles. this case isn t about what donald trump said, it s about what he did. the judge is a former federal, actually state prosecutor. a state public defender. she was very fair to donald trump, like she is to every defendant. but she made it clear that she is not going to put up with this typical stuff. so she went along with this
Reform as we said will not pass the legislation as hoped by the when year anniversary of george floyd s death but political reports this, quote, virtually all parties involved are okay with missing the deadline. and in conversations with the white house, activists and lawmakers of stress that they want a substantial bill, not a quick one. it comes as new polling from axios shows 72% of black americans think police shootings of black and brown youths have worsened just in the space of this past year. back with us tonight, paul butler former federal prosecutor at the department of justice. currently a professor at georgetown law. he is written and spoken extensively on this topic. among his books is chokehold, policing blackmon. professor thank you very much for joining us and i d like to share with our audience what you wrote in the washington post today. every day the police confront people who do not feel like