Hes cocky for a nineteen year old. Youre live in the cnn newsroom. Im jim acosta. There is a new deadline in the new back and forth of the indictment of president trump. The federal judge overseeing trumps Election Fraud case has responded to a court filing from special counsel jack smith that came in last night. Smith wants a protective order after trump posted this social media message late last night. It says, if you go after me, im coming after you. Smith wants the judge to limit trump and his legal team in terms of what they publicly discuss about the sensitive evidence in the case. And the judge has now given the trump team until 5 00 p. M. Monday to respond. Minutes ago, the judge denied a request from the Trump Lawyers to push back mondays deadline. Smith had called it an unnecessary delay. Joining us now to talk about this, jim schultz, a former Trump White House lawyer. Thanks very much for joining us. We appreciate it. Lets start with what the judge is saying. There is now a
political speech as you were discussing with jim that wouldn t be like this. you can say this is a political that you are persecution. it sounds like he s threatening people with physical harm. interestingly, the special counsel said to the judge, don t even wait for a hearing. impose the protective order because it can be modified at any time. you can have a hearing later. they can say what conditions they want. but we want to push the send button and start giving them discovery and we need reassurances discovery won t end up on truth social. trump s lawyers say no, we need more time, more time. this is part. whole delay strategy. so part of the problem is it all adds up to delay. that s what i was about to get to. if trump plays these games, and they result in the special counsel having to go to the judge and say wait, trump did this or trump did that, the defense team says hold on a second. we need a few days for our