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Accountable. In their motion for a protective order, the Justice Department says, quote, such a protective order is needed in this case the because the defendant has released statements on social media regarding witnesses, judges, attorneys and other associates in legal matters pending against him. In recent days the defendant has issued multiple posts, either specifically or by implication including the following which the defendant posted just hours ago. If you go after me, im coming after you...

The first one is Conspiracy To Defraud the United States. Second is the conspiracy to obstruct an official proceeding. And then the conspiracy against rights. Thats, of course, the Voting Rights of u. S. Citizens around the country. Now, ill read you just a part where the Special Counsel describes what theormer president is accused of dog here. It says that the defendant spread lies, that there had been outcome determinative fraud in the election and that he had actually won. These claims were f...

to mention our allies around the globe. for days and up until now, months. so the way that the presidents demeanor in that report was characterized could not be more wrong on the facts. and clearly politically motivated, gratuitous. and, so, i will say that when it comes to the role and responsibility of a prosecutor in a situation like that, we should expect that there would be a higher level of integrity than what we saw. thank you. thank you for the question. >> vice president harri...

into the official record what so many democratic voters have been complaining about publicly, and so many movers and shakers have been worried about privately. the president is not as sharp as he used to be. but the question for them is how is that worse than the alternative. another senior citizen who has serious memory and confusion problems and also facing 91 criminal counts for trying to overturn an election, hiding and endangering extremely sensitive national secrets, including in...

policies. braggs investigation of alleged financial crimes. >> we will talk live with chairman jordan shortly on this program. first, correspondent david spunt has our top story tonight from the justice department. good evening, david. >> bret, quite a rare moment to see such a public fight between a local district attorney and the chairman of the house judiciary committee. this all spilled out just hours ago in a federal lawsuit filed in the southern district of new york in federal co...

with judge jeanine pirro, kevin oleary, jesse watters, and greg gutfeld. its 5:00 in new york city and this is "the five." ♪ ♪ we are awaiting new remarks from donald trump, as his fate hangs in the balance. the first day of jury deliberations in the hush money trial is over come after four long hours of talking about the case. the jury will be back in court at 9:30 a.m. tomorrow. there is no verdict yet. there are 12 members of the jury, seven men and five women getting their firs...

Been looking for an excuse to impeach this president for a long time now. In fact, when they took over the house pardon of the interruption here. Im going to step out here at the top of the hour, but our coverage of the impeachment proceedings continue now on msnbc. Stay with us. Its all about politics, hurting the president , hurting his reputation. They dislike him intensely. As i mentioned the other day, they really loathe this president and theyre trying to hurt his chances in the next elect...

President for a long time now. In fact, when they took over the house, one of their members filed articles of impeachment that very day and really since Inauguration Day many wanted to impeach him. This is really all about in my view, its all about politics. Its all about hurting the president , hurting his reputation. They dislike him intensely. As i mentioned the other day they really loathe this president , and theyre trying to hurt his chances in the next election. It may well do just the op...

Requisite predicate cause there can be restrictions on people. there can be restrictions on their liberty. many, many defendants in criminal cases end up detained pretrial. there can be restrictions on their speech. and i think thats something that mr. trump and his attorneys so far are not really acknowledging. >> all right. so you brought up a really interesting point about this being a delay tactic, and you actually have that right here on page 2. this is again from the filing just now from t...

To speak about documents that are provided in discovery that dont, at least to the extent they dont contain sensitive information, which as you were just discussing they want to divide -- define even more narrowly than the government would define that. so i think this first amendment theme is already in just -- we havent even been a week since the charges, is a major, major theme of everything theyre going to be doing to defend this case. >> yeah. and to marys point, and you read between the lin...