A warning for trump judge Tanya Chutkan makes clear the ex president s free speech is not absolute in his upcoming Election Interference case. Plus, on ethical and possibly illegal Clarence Thomas exception of luxury gifts and travel might finally force the court to take action. And, breaking developments in the Georgia Election probe, our strongest indication yet that a grand jury could indict donald trump in a matter of days. I am ayman mohyeldin, lets get started. And we begin with that Breaking News out of georgia this hour, fulton countys Da Fani Willis will begin presenting her Election Interference case against donald trump and his allies to a grand jury early next week. The Atlanta Journalconstitution is reporting the timeline came into sharper focus when former georgia Lieutenant Governor jeff duncan and independent journalist george chidi separately confirmed they had received notifications they will testify on tuesday. Now, this means the public might know by tuesday whether
Illegal Clarence Thomas exception of luxury gifts and travel might finally force the court to take action. And, breaking developments in the Georgia Election probe, our strongest indication yet that a grand jury could indict donald trump in a matter of days. I am Ayman Mohyeldin lets, get started. And we begin with that Breaking News out of georgia this hour, fulton countys returning fani willis will begin presenting her Election Interference case against donald trump and his allies to a grand jury early next week. The Atlanta Journalconstitution is reporting the timeline came into sharper focus when former georgia Lieutenant Governor jeff duncan and independent journalist George Shady Separately confirmed they had received notifications they will testify on tuesday. Now, this means the public might know by tuesday whether jurors indict the ex president. Tuesday evening, to be specific. Willis is expected to begin her presentation to grandeurs on monday. Were gonna have more on this br
paul john passes a special correspondent for vanity fair and the host of fast politics podcast bloomberg opinion this evening, jennifer, i ll start with you. our own lucy reuben was inside that courtroom yesterday. she noted that the judge chutkan used the trump lawyers markup of the protection order us as the baseline of the making mostly opportunists based on their proposed added s. and this order isn t nearly as restrictive as the government had hoped. but how do you view the unresolved. is this a win for team trump or not? i don t see it as a win for team trump. what this is is a fair and balanced protective order which is designed to make sure that donald trump can t intimidate witnesses. and i expect that he will have trouble following guidance here. because i think he is going to take notes, i think he s gonna
party makes, quote, inflammatory statements about the case, the greater the urgency and the speed of the trial date. the judge warned that even, quote, arguably ambiguous statements could be construed as intimidation or harassment of potential witnesses. judge chutkan ended the hearing with this promise, quote, i will take whatever measures are necessary to safeguard the integrity of the case. so there you have it, plain and simple. judge chutkan has laid it out in black and white. the exact parameters by which trump must abide. which leads us with this question. will the ex president actually listen? will the judges warnings fall on deaf ears? right now donald trump is fire.g with and with every new speech on social media post he makes, he runs a risk of getting burned. let s bring in my panel for the evening, jennifer todd is a professor at western new ofland university school .aw she s really author of big money.
we re gonna have more on this breaking development later in the show. but we first began with a reality check for the now the race undated ex president. donald clump trump, quote, as a criminal defendant. he s gonna have restrictions like any other criminal defendant. those were the words of judge tanya chutkan. the federal judge overseeing special counsel jack smith s election interference case against, trump and hearing yesterday that she rejected trump s request to be able to speak more broadly and publicly about the investigation. in a new productive order, chutkan limited the ex president and attorneys from publicly discussing, any, quote, sensitive material that includes, quote, any personally identified information concerning witnesses. information that had emerged from a grand jury. and any materials turned over from other government entities. during that, hearing trump s legal team argued that too strict of a protective order