You are live in the cnn newsroom. Im jim acosta in washington. Good evening. We are inching closer to i deadline in the governments case against former President Donald Trump over his efforts to overturn the 2020 election. Trumps lars now have about 22 hours to respond to a legal filing from special counsel jack smith. He requested a protective order after trump posted this on social media on friday. If you go after me, im coming after you. Smith wants the judge to limit trump and his legal team from publicly discussing sensitive evidence in the election interference case. Today on cnn we heard from one trump lawyer who says he will fight that protective order. The Defense Attorney also says trump did not tell Vice President mike pence at the time to throw out key electoral votes. He says the key distinction is that trump merely asked. Youre saying that asking is action. No, asking is aspirational. Asking is not action. Its core free speech. What President Trump did not do is direct Vi
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percolating in all of this is trump has been going after mike pence on social media. he did that in a truth social post easter the last 24 hours. last night during a republican dinner in south carolina trump went after bill barr. he also went after jack smith. let s listen to this and talk about it on the other side. i will direct a completely, very, very powerful overhaul of the doj. we re not going o to have cowards we re not going to have cowards like bill barr. virtually every poll we re kicking biden s ass. if i wasn t we wouldn t be under investigation by deranged jack smith. he s a deranged human being. now, renato, the judge made it very clear on thursday that trump is not supposed to go after witnesses. and you know, i m just curious, if mike pence and bill barr potentially might be witnesses in this case, i mean, based on what jack smith said in his