Concerned that evidence sought by his former fixer, michael cohen, and half A Billion Dollar lawsuit, could incriminate the former president. Michael cohen goes on the record, live, a little later. And must see tv. Congresswoman Jasmine Crockett joins us live to make the case for Televising The Trump trials. All of this and more is coming up. And a good saturday morning to you all, im katie phang. We begin this hour with new developments in one of the several cases against the twice impeached, now thrice and dated, one term disgraced ex president. Overnight, the department of justice, seeking to have a federal judge impose a Protective Order on criminal defendant, donald trump. In Special Counsel jack smiths 2020 election case. The doj is concerned, rightfully, in my opinion, that trump will share sensitive and confidential information. And its likes to trumps own inflammatory social media posts in which trump appears to vow revenge. Its important to note that on thursday during trumps
Alex. We begin with Breaking News, just minutes ago, the judge in the Election Interference case now ordering Donald Trumps team to respond to the governments motion for a Protective Order again in the election case. Stating their position on the matter by five pm on monday. Requests for Protective Order came after the former president posted on truth social, quote, if you go after me im coming after you. Joining us, now glenn kershner, former federal prosecutor and now msnbc legal analyst. He was in the d. C. Courthouse thursday for trumps first appearance. , glen what is the significance of this Breaking News . Aaron, im surprised that when the judge received jack smiths motion for Protective Order, and jack smith quoted donald trump, you know, when donald trump posted what can only be described as a threat, im not surprised the judge has ordered them to now respond at light speed, as you said, i was in court on thursday i saw the judge admonished donald trump as follows. Mr. Trump,
biden and citing the controversies previewing in court a quote, selective prosecution motion because this prosecution provides an advantage to these prosecutors boss who is running a political campaign against president trump and added it will go directly to the core of the criticisms mr. trump made historically against president biden and his son and whether or not this meaning the jack smith prosecution is a, quote, retaliatory action as a result of that. let me tell you, you don t hear that every day in what is a trial scheduling hearing this is important and want to walk through it because we learned a lot. these defense lawyers have every right to challenge the prosecutor s approach or potential fairness and to make arguments which invoke defendant trump s status as a former president and a current
where federal cases go before state. cases of, course the real question, is, quote what is ready to go? what is ready to go to trial? you can find there is also civil trials that are pending for donald trump, not just criminal. when it comes to the triage of civil versus criminal, civil usually takes a backseat to criminal. especially if somebody is in custody, and, mind you we don t know if donald trump will stay out of custody while he s pending his criminal cases? criminal will go before civil, and some federal will go before state. however, d.a. of and bragg and manhattan said he will show deference to special counsel, jack, smith if it looks like there s going to be a collision of trial scheduling between jack smith s cases and alvin bragg s case. maybe just maybe we could see that for fulton county d.a., fani willis. we ve had her on record, just the last couple of days say, i m ready to go. of course it depends on whether or not the defense is ready to. go there is going to be s