Youre watching cnn newsroom, im rosemary church. Former u. S. President donald trump staring down a deadline related to charges he tried to overturn the 2020 election. Well hear from one of his lawyers. President joe biden is set to hit the road to tout his economic achievements to voters. An amazing rescue at sea. The trials this man endured during the trip out, before the coast guard found him alive. Special counsel jack smith has requested limitations on evidence provided to trumps team, specifically, theyre asking the former president not to receive his own copies of sensitive material fearing he could use it to threaten witnesses. The deadline to respond is just hours away. Smith responded to trumps post on social media. Including this one, if you go after me, im coming after you. One of trumps attorneys says he will fight the protective order, clai claiming prosecutors want to hide information from the american people. The point is that we will not agree to keeping information th
i m shocked that the press is not lining up rejecting this order. not only is trump being attacked for his first amendment rights, now the prosecutors are trying to infringe on the freedom of the press. trump said his legal team will be asking for the judge to be overseeing the case for a recruisal, on, quote, powerful grounds. his team may ask to move the case outside of washington, d.c. consider this. we could see his former vmt and current opponent for the nomination be called to testify against him. dana bash put that scenario to mike pence earlier. i have no plans to testify. we will always comply with the law. i want to tell you.
recruisal from the russia investigation and the investigation was very unfair to the president and the president had done nothing wrong and sessions planned to meet with the special counsel and let him move forward with investigating election meddling in the future elections. now, wolf, when you talk to democrats in the judiciary committee, they made two things clear. one in the obstruction piece, this is one of the key elements. the idea that president trump trying to stand in the way, get rid of or undercut in one way or another the special counsel and the other is that cory lewandowski is a key target in the investigation. not just because of the instances in the mueller report but because in particular he is not served in the white house. many of the reasons they ve been able to block so many advisers on executive privilege grounds because cory lewandowski never served in the white house they believe they could not utilize that. now kaitlan collins reported yesterday the white hous
there were more people at my inauguration. he rewrites history constantly to make it more favorable to him. now, lots of people rewrite history and make it more favorable for them, very few are president of the united states. there s a through line here, victim line and grievance. donald trump is forever the victim in his own mind, the victim of poor staff, victim of bad choices made by other people, victim of the media mows especially. remember his comments about jeff sessions. i can t believe he would do this to me about jeff sessions recruisal. we talked about it on the show. 100% focused on himself. this is who the guy is. he may have other moments. monday night is the exception. tuesday night is the rule. it s when he actually gives a speech written by staff that s apparently taking the office of the president more seriously