I am stephanie ruhle. We begin this evening in washington, d. C. Where lawyers for former president Donald J Trump have responded to Special Counsel jack smith request for a Protective Order in the 2020 election case. Trumps team countered with a narrower Protective Order that would allow him to publicly discuss some of the evidence collected by the government ahead of the trial. The Special Counsels office came back just hours later urging judge chutkan to forego and additional hearing and sign off on the governments proposed Protective Order. Jack smiths team said donald trump once to try this case in the media rather than in the courtroom. And our friend Glenn Kushner Glenn Kirschner said it best last week, judge tanya chutkan, she doesnt play. And we saw that tonight when she wasted no time responding at nine pm on monday night, ordering to see both sides and getting them to agree on a time for a hearing on this Protective Order, on or before this friday. All this after the former
why is it important? because this is truly about the sake of democracy in ohio. and i do not think that is hyperbole to say that. we are talking about whether or not the legislature actually is beholden to the people that gives it its power. i ve watched in the past year alone, as the republicans have when democrats started winning elections. we just passed the republicans to strip them of their power. when democrats started winning. elections on the states supreme court. they added party labels in order to make sure they continue to have power. i have watched as the republicans in ohio have ignored. six different rulings over our maps that say that the maps they produced are illegal gerrymanders. and they continue to go forward. this is truly, whether or not the legislature has to listen to the people of ohio. it is about abortion. and you can hear it from our secretary of state frank rose who said it unequivocally, this is about stopping ohioans from having reproductive justice int