Today on inside politics, law and disorder. Donald trump faces a 5 00 p. M. Deadline to fight a Justice Department request. The former president claims its an attempt to shut him up. Prosecutors say its to stop the defense from Bullying Witnesses into silence. Plus, seeing is believing. Joe biden heads west to literally point to progress. Its part of his plan to make americans feel and see how bidenomics is changing their lives for the better. And a woke up call . New polling suggests a red meat term is now overcooked, even among republicans with plenty of appetite for owning the left. Im dana bash. Lets go behind the headlines and inside politics. Up first, a looming legal deadline, the Trump Legal Team has until the close of Business Today to respond to a Justice Department demand for a protective order. The order would restrict what mr. Trump can say about what evidence prosecutors turn over. Lets start with cnns katelyn polantz. What are you hearing . Dana, this is a typical provis
of trump. i wonder, though, how long is that going to last, because as we get into primary election season, some of the big dates like super tuesday, the caucuses, they re going to be a lot of trump developments, especially when it comes to trials and new developments in these cases. they are likely either going to ignore full on or they are going to have to find an answer for. i think that is right and the so many uncertainties in this. there s going to be much more time spent in the courtroom than on the campaign trail. but i think what one thing that the florida governor is doing, boy, he s investing heavily in iowa, he s been there every weekend for long stretches, his super pac announced he s going again on thursday and friday coming up. he s really trying to take advantage of the fact that yes he has a day job as florida governor but he s spend ago i lot of time in iowa and donald trump is not. s know. in he s in fwalabama and oth places. we know what consumes his mind.
from mcclatchy, cnbc got a tip about somebody that played an important role in trump building efforts. the tip was that in georgia and kazakhstan and russia, the trump organization basically, they pitched big trump branded building projects with what amounted to a three-pronged approach. one of those prongs was trump himself. they would bring trump over there himself to get press attention and do events with celebrities and talk up whatever it was they were doing. they bring the trump star power and then bring michael cohen to make connections and also bring an architect who would show off possible designs for these potential trump developments. that was basically their three-pronged approach to making
about somebody that played an important role in trump building efforts. the tip was that in georgia and kazakhstan and russia, the trump organization basically, they pitched big trump branded building projects with what amounted to a three-pronged approach. one of those prongs was trump himself. they would bring trump over there himself to get press attention and do events with celebrities and talk up whatever it was they were doing. they bring the trump star power and then bring michael cohen to make connections and also bring an architect who would show off possible designs for these potential trump developments. that was basically their three-pronged approach to making business pitches overseas in the former soviet union. so we know what happened to donald trump. he became president. we know what happened to michael cohen. he s going to prison. what about the other guy? the architect who helped make these pitches for the trump
and then bring michael cohen to make connections and also bring an architect who would show off possible designs for these potential trump developments. that was basically their three-pronged approach to making business pitches overseas in the former soviet union. so we know what happened to donald trump. he became president. we know what happened to michael cohen. he s going to prison. what about the other guy? the architect who helped make these pitches for the trump organization he himself has never been accused of wrongdoing that e with know about. nobody has alleged that he has done anything to get himself in trouble with any of this stuff but he was proximate to something that is reportedly of investigation and where the other people involved are very, very much at the center of on going investigations. if the mueller investigation started to investigate this part of trump s business past, what about this other guy?