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
Time where he s under indictment, or could even be convicted. and then there s a large group of republicans why there love trump no matter what, or are concerned that republicans could lose the presidency so much that they vote for him anyway. i was talking about all stripes. i think what we know from the polling, what i know anecdotally from talking to voters is these indictments have created a rally around the flag effect for donald trump. his numbers have gone up. you ve seen ron desantis, the florida governor, of course stumbling under his own weight. but also sort of dropping into more distances. so trump is in good shape. nbc s john allen. thank you so much. thank you charles. joining me now is former federal prosecutor, my friend and colleague, msnbc legal analyst, paul butler. he is a professor at georgetown school of law. and the author of the book