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
They recognize that, they did it their duty. they tried to knowing that doing so now might head off problems later. now, paul, to danny s point trump has not only threatened that he is going to continue to speak, he is actually done it. he continues to attack people connected to this case. he has called jack smith deranged. he said mike pence, impossible witness in this trial, is delusional. it was already warned about this during an arraignment. are we bordering on something along the lines of witness intimidation? is that something that should be a serious concern for donald trump? totally. but, it won t be a serious concern for trump for the reasons that danny outlined. he doesn t listen to anybody, including his defense attorneys. yesterday the judge said she has the power to lock up defendants while they are awaiting trial. one reason she is gunning donald trump remain free is the
Protective order, and at the defense request from donald trump. that if he restricted to sensitive materials. but then she imposed are really raw definition of what s included in that category of sensitive materials. so charles, most of the 11 million pages of evidence that the trump team is going to get, trump will only be able to look at under adult supervision. danny, to paul s point, it s clear for anyone who s paying attention that judge chutkan is doing as good a job as possible in terms of balancing the interest of both parties, and not making it apparent one way or another that she is trying to point to either side. this is a fairly routine order, in terms of it being a protective order. the three of us have seen this over, and over again. what we haven t seen before is the unprecedented nature of this case. and how it came up during yesterday s hearing. how do you think trump s
It to our attention. danny, paul and i are both former prosecutors, i want to ask you as a criminal defense attorney sitting with us, if you are donald trump s defense attorney, how concerned are you that while you are in court, trying to deal with the contours of a protective order, your client is on the outside talking about his first amendment rights, what he wants to say, and apparently trying to make it appear that if he wants to vocalize things, where he s going after his opponents, political enemies, or things witnesses in the case, that he s gonna continue to do it. how concerned are you about that? if you d asked me that question in 2016, i would ve told you, criminal defense attorney s clients never help themselves when they go out and speak publicly about their case. strangely for some reason, i can t fathom a lot of criminal defendants feeling like if they themselves are on a podium somewhere, get on social media, will be able to help their case. that s virtually neve