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Accountable. In their motion for a protective order, the Justice Department says, quote, such a protective order is needed in this case the because the defendant has released statements on social media regarding witnesses, judges, attorneys and other associates in legal matters pending against him. In recent days the defendant has issued multiple posts, either specifically or by implication including the following which the defendant posted just hours ago. If you go after me, im coming after you. The filing including a screen shot of that ominous threat. Prosecutors went on to say, quote, if the defendant were to begin issuing public posts using details or, for example, grand jury transcripts obtained in discovery, it could have a harmful, Chilling Effect on witnesses or adversely affect the Fair Administration ....
judge s order that he testify in the probe. laura jarrett will be joining us shortly with her reporting on that. first as we come on the air, we are watching history house speaker kevin mccarthy is meeting right now with taiwan s president ing-wen, the first meeting since 1979 when the u.s. ended diplomatic negotiations with taiwan in a deal to establish a relationship with china. they are expected to deliver a joint address at any moment. we re going to bring that to you as soon as it gets underway. no doubt beijing is also watching very closely as the president is capping off a ten-day diplomatic mission intended to strengthen taiwan s relationships with its foreign partners the announced stopover in the u.s. prompted immediate condemnation and threats of retaliation from china chinese leaders have repeatedly called on the u.s. not to engage with taiwan officials. the people s republic of china claims taiwan as its territory the u.s. government stance is not to take a ....
probably withstand appeal. talk about how unusual a case like this is, this contempt of congress case and the difficulty of trying a case like this. you know, is highly unusual, but it s also extremely important because if you let individuals make their own decisions about whether they will or will not comply with lawfully issued subpoenas, whether they are congressional subpoenas, grand jury subpoenas, trial subpoenas, then the entire system just falls apart. congress could accomplish nothing if witnesses if witnesses if you would stand by, we want to head over a little ways from are you are and that s over to capitol hill where we find allie standing by. it s only been about 20 minutes so i m not expecting you to get any additional but you are top- notch at what you do. you may have additional grounder. how do you see this rippling out on capitol hill now that we have the sentence in the first of this first trial out of this committee, how do you see t ....
I m not going to go into criminal contempt. i m not going to say i m disobeying the trial subpoena. one easy way you can get witnesses, you give them trial subpoenas and they re required to come and testify. obviously, if they were to testify falsely, they could also be charged with committing a crime. it appears with mike pence what happened was he was given a grand jury subpoena. he testified in the grand jury, he gave information. it appears from the indictment that he testified truthfully. in other words, he didn t say i don t remember anything or i didn t recall. he seems to have given very specific information. that would be the same thing with respect to mike pence the same thing with respect to bill barr. as you mentioned, a host of republicans who were allies of the president clearly gave evidence that formed the basis of this charge, and you will see those people at trial, and ....
Either they will come on their own steam or they will be given trial subpoenas that will require them to be there. jackie, to pick up on the washington post reporting, it says one trump adviser joked last week, quote, my best friends are lawyers. tell us what s about to unfold for potential campaign staffers who will face the challenge of trump loyalty versus avoiding suspicions from prosecutors. my colleagues have a really great piece about all of the conflicts of interest. after all, the judge in florida did order trump and prosecutors to submit a list of people that they didn t want trump speaking to as a part of the case. they came up with a list of about 84 different people, many of whom actually still continue to work with trump. we obviously know walt nauta, but even his senior communications aide, one of his ....