Hes the former Nixon White House counsel. John, you and i have spoken about this and donald trump so many times, but, you know, as i was discussing with one of our producers before this program got started, in the past, you know, we would talk about Donald Trumps tweets and his social media posts and wonder what the impact might be. But it sounds as though the Special Counsel in this case, jack smith, is really seizing on this very inflammatory, threateningsounding post from donald trump on truth social and alerting it to the judge. The government arguing that the restrictions that theyre seeking are necessary to prevent trump from publicly disclosing sensitive discovery information. Can you walk us through what this means . Yeah. It looks like the post from trump came out while they were working on a motion to agree upon a protective order in general to Exchange Discovery material. And this obviously caught their attention. This is not the sort of norm that theyre used to dealing with
Saying if trump were to begin posting details from grand jury transcripts it could have a Chilling Effect on witnesses. Remember this is just 24 hours after his arrest and arraignment in his third indictment over election interference and after the judge warned him against making threats. Lets go straight to john dean, hes the former Nixon White House counsel. And john, you and i have spoken about this and donald trump so many times, but, you know, as i was discussing with one of our producers before this program got started, in the past we would talk about Donald Trumps tweets and his social media posts and wonder what the impact might be, but it sounds as though the Special Counsel in this case, jack smith, is really seizing on this very inflammatory, threatening sounding post from donald trump on truoct to the judge. The government arguing that the restrictions that theyre seeking are necessary to prevent trump from publicly disclosing sensitive discovery information. Can you walk u
girlfriend s abortion. a woman who asked not to be identified out of privacy concerns tells the daily beast that after she and walker conceived a child while they were dating in 2009, he urged her to get an abortion. the woman said she had the procedure and walker reimbursed her for it. she supported these claims with a $575 receipt from the abortion clinic, a get well card from walker and a bank deposit received that included an image of a signed $700 personal check from walker. the daily beast independently corroborated details of the woman s claims, but a close friend who she told at the time and who, according to the woman and the friend who took care of her in the days after the procedure, walker who has likened abortion to murder and called for a total ban on the procedure even in cases of rape and incest and the life of the mother is denying the allegations, calling it a, quote, flat-out lie. nbc news has not independently verified the allegations or seen the docum
speech on college campuses. all of these things are very much in the zeitgeist if not actually legislative solutions being sought by conservatives of the state level. when you understand the story of how roe fell like what was that, legislation to courts to law and american cultural transformation pipeline and you can understand okay, this makes some sense of these other big cultural transformative issues we are seeing play out and this other deluge of loss like you are mentioning. it is a blueprint and like i said, it is so comprehensive and the fact that you talked to the right about how they won the war or at least the battle makes it essential reading. the fall of rome is right now on bookshelves and kendall. thank you for being here tonight, ladies. that is our show for this evening. now, it s time for the last word with lawrence o donnell. good evening, alex. i just noticed adam schiff is here in his role as a member of that crazy house judiciary committee heari
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