Accountable. In their motion for a protective order, the Justice Department says, quote, such a protective order is needed in this case the because the defendant has released statements on social media regarding witnesses, judges, attorneys and other associates in legal matters pending against him. In recent days the defendant has issued multiple posts, either specifically or by implication including the following which the defendant posted just hours ago. If you go after me, im coming after you. The filing including a screen shot of that ominous threat. Prosecutors went on to say, quote, if the defendant were to begin issuing public posts using details or, for example, grand jury transcripts obtained in discovery, it could have a harmful, Chilling Effect on witnesses or adversely affect the Fair Administration of justice in this case. That request by the Special Counsel triggered a battle between team trump and the doj. Here is how the New York Times wrote this. John lauro, one of tru
the indictment is sealed, but just last hour nbc confirmed from two sources familiar with the matter that they are about 30 counts of document-related fraud charges in that indictment trump s attorney says he s expected to be arraigned on tuesday, and one of trump s lawyers told nbc s today show earlier today that trump will voluntarily surrender to authority. he s not going to hole up in mar-a-lago he ll face this, and we ll face it, and we ll be successful i m sure president trump will not take a plea deal in this case it s not going to happen there s no crime with us now to talk more about all of this, nbc news correspondent garrett haake, our chief investigative reporter for wnbc and our nbc news chief justice contributor, and maya wiley, a former u.s. attorney and now president of the leadership conference on civil and human rights jonathan, you actually broke the news for us about 30 counts in this trump indictment. what do you know well, we know it relates to d
generations. we know in our bones that our democracy is at risk and we know this is your moment to defend it, preserve and protect it, choose it. i want you to know we ll meet this moment. every freedom loving american needs to understand the time stands up to this growing left wing tyranny is right now. if you want to save your rights and liberties, you have to start by dealing a humiliating rebuke to the radical left of this election. this is so important, this election. the current and former president delivering their final speeches of this midterm campaign. but donald trump had a lot more than this election on his mind. we re also going to hear the closing pitches from the candidates themselves and several key races that could determine the balance of power in washington. plus, how speaker nancy pelosi gives her first interview since the brutal attack on her husband. we ll have all of that for you straight ahead. good morning. welcome to way too early on this tue
response to the proposed protective order is now due within the hour. all of this has been taking place and john lauro has been making the rounds on television, giving a preview of what we can expect as trump s defense. take a listen to what he had to say in response to comments made by mike pence. he said the president asked him to violate the constitution. no. he said the president asked him to violate the cons tukes which is another way of he asked him to break the law. he never said he never said. no, that s wrong, that s wrong. a technical violation of the constitution is not a violation of criminal law. that s just plain wrong. and to say that is contrary to decades of legal statutes. here is what january 6th select committee member jamie raskin had to say specifically about that. a technical violation of the constitution is a violation of the constitution. the constitution in six
one of donald trump s attorneys here in new york, joe tacopina has been making the rounds on television making the legal arguments which are essentially these. they admit to the requested that these payments were made by the former president, but argue that they were just a nuisance payment, that he was essentially being extorted, and that there was nothing illegal about the hush money payment in and of itself, and that even the business record part of this were just internal documents and it s a note-taking error that shouldn t be a crime here s how joe tacopina made the legal argument for the former president on the today show this morning they were not filed look there was no tax deduction taken here which initially was the theory of this case when they put it in the grand jury two years ago. no tax deduction taken, and there was no obligation to file this with the sec. if there were, could you imagine if donald trump paid for this settlement agreement with campaign funds allegi