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Its saturday august 12th, youre watching velshi. Im Charles Coleman Junior Filling in for my friend ali velshi. We begin this hour with the latest developments in the fastmoving case of the United States versus donald j trump. There are major developments in the Government Election interference case against the former president. Federal judge Tanya Chutkan granted the Special Counsel Team Request for protective order just yesterday. The protective order seek salute what trump can and cannot disclose about the case, and the trove of evidence that prosecutors are set to turn over to the defense during discovery. Now the government requested a protective order that covered all of the discovery materials. But the judges ruling did not go that far. It does stop trump from publicly sharing quote, material that the government doesnt, designates has sensitive. And quote. This would include things like personal information of possible witnesses, recordings, and transcripts of testimony. The def
Trump in the four years. Thanks for taking that up to the end of the show. Appreciate it. Thank you. That does it for me today. Deadline white house, thankfully, starts right now. Hi, there, everyone. 4 00 in new york. Kicking, claim p xleeming, crying, whining, donald trump and his legal team back dwhoog they do today. Seeking to delay, delay, delay, delay justice. Todays effort at that in the federal criminal case brought by special counsel jack smith for illegally hoarding classified documents at his private club in maralago. The disgraced president watching on with no obligation to do so set to convince district judge cannon to dismiss some or all charges against trump. Did so through various after neuers. First a Motion Wiping away the first 32 counts on the theory the main statute used against trump is unconstitutionally vague. The second even more audacious, a Motion Dismissing the indictment entirely on the grounds of the president s records act completely bars prosecution. The
Trial. And we get more evidence of defense footdragging in the maralago documents case. Also tonight, were on the scene of the enormous destruction in maui where some of the wildfires are thankfully being contained, but the proportions of this tragedy, including now dozens of lives lost, it just keeps growing. Later, Florida Governor ron desantis adds a new adversary to disney, School Liberians and the woke. This time school prosecutors. He is firing them, only he never hired them. The voters did. Well speak to the latest official to get the ax. Good evening. John berman here for anderson. Trying to for swift justice in what could become the most significant criminal trial ever in this country. If not unprecedented in its speed, then pretty nearly so. The defense in one way or another in this federal case and the other today say not so fast. Today the Special Counsels team asked for a january 2nd trial date in the Election Subversion case which it said could take as little as four week
And thank you to you at home for joining us this evening. Donald trumps fourth criminal indictment, number four appears to be buffets away. Nbc news is now reporting that Fulton County District Attorney fani willis is expected to present her case to the grand jury next week. We know the d. A. Willis has been investigating trumps efforts to overturn the 2020 election in georgia. Her investigation appears to have quite a bit in common with the federal case being brought by Special Counsel jack smith in washington, d. C. The case in georgia may prove to be different than dak smiths case in one very meaningful way. To understand that, we have to go back to 1979. The City Of Atlanta was experiencing an unprecedented wave of crimes. It wasnt Nbc Nightly News in august of that year. During the First Six Months of the year, crime and atlanta was up 30 . Robbery and aggravated assault were upset many percent. Murder was up to. Atlanta has had 140 homicides the, highest total since 1973. That wa