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
Is facing, they are likely to push for a much later date, so they can delay this as much as possible. for more on this, i m now joined by nbc news senior national political politics reporter, jonathan allen. jonathan, so great to talk to you today. listen, donald trump has been framing this protective order as such an infringement on his free speech rights, not being able to save what he s able to constitutionally under the law. how has he been talking about this on the campaign trail? is it actually resignation with voters? good morning charles. i was in new hampshire earlier this week. donald trump up and wyndham talking to a high school gym full of supporters. talking about his first amendment rights being infringed, potentially being infringed. he s anticipating what we just saw. a couple things about that, number one, his team did not object to the idea of a protective order. they knew that would ve been futile.