Good evening and welcome to a special early edition. Im laura coates. Live. We begin with breaking news. Special counsel jack smith is now thinking a gag order against donald trump in the classified documents case. Jack smith is asking the judge to quote, make clear that trump may not make statements that pose a significant imminent and foreseeable danger to Law Enforcement agents who are participating in the investigation and prosecution of this case. So now, why is it special counsel asking for this . You might be asking, well, its because of what donald trump said this week when he falsely claimed, but fbi agents who searched maralago or quote, Locked And Loaded and authorized to shoot him. He was misrepresenting the standard language and documents and the fbi says it uses routinely. Heres by the way, how attorney general Merrick Garland explain it just yesterday okay. And that one that allegation is false and it is extremely dangerous the document that is being referred to in the a
To join us with reaction to Michael Cohens testimony but, first, jug head is in a jam. Thats to the focus of tonights angle. Laura The Big Moment In Court today was supposed to be the playing of a taped conversation that Michael Cohen recorded between trump and himself back in 2016, yeah. 8 years ago where they could be heard talking about how they would buy the rights to karen macdougalls story. And on the tape cohen can be heard explaining to the then president ial candidate his plans to form an llc through which he would finance the purchase of the rights to that womans story. We know what happened, okay, get rid of this. Its so false what they are saying, such bull [bleep] laura its all bull today as well. None of the hype amounted to anything. None of it proved anything. Lets break it down for you. Remember, in this case the state has to prove that the trump organizations internal bookkeeping records were not only falsified, okay, but they also were falsified to the extent that tr