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Vaughn, has trump given any reason for why he wants to be able to disclose witness information? >> reporter: the number one reason that donald trump and his legal defense in that filing last night are contesting that he should be able to have a less restrictive protective order is that it is his first amendment right to speak publicly, especially in the heart of a campaign, about the criminal proceeding that awaits him. in that filing there was one particular reference to joe biden tweet in whic...

Saying, quote, the defendant seeks to use the discovery of material to litigate this case, in the media. smith shared complaints about the case that trumps newest defense attorney, john lauro, made in five different television interviews yesterday. this all came right after trumps post on friday night, where he wrote, in all capital letters, if you go after me, im coming after you. trumps attorneys are now arguing that was a reference to political adversaries, not legal ones. all of this is comi...

Jury pool, it could leave that witness to be exposed to harm. it is very clear that there will be a protective order in this case at some point. the question is how much delay the trump camp will get ahead with first. >> now, even the trump teams motion has political references. while arguing that trumps opponents have campaigned on the indictment, they say president biden has likewise capitalized on it, posting a thinly veiled reference to his administrations prosecution of president trump, jus...

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Cross-examination. its bizarre. >> yeah, luke, welcome to the show. i want to get some sort of reporting on sort of what the thinking is inside trump world. we did get the trump team response. they did respond to the jack smith motion to claires point, and heres what they did. they cited dark brandon. i mean, its almost like theyre not taking it seriously. the quote is, president biden has likewise capitalized on the indictment, posting a thinly veiled reference to his administrations prosecutio...

And frankly its not a complete or thorough or fair discussion about the constitution or our laws. >> charlie, if you thought that this was not going to be about politics, think again because its clear from just skimming through this right now over the last couple minutes, the defense is intending on making politics front and center. again, im going to read an excerpt from page 4. "against this backdrop the government requests the court assume the role of censor and impose content-based regulatio...

Then everybody can really move toward trial and start working very hard there. so, that is whats going on legally. but there is this other conversation thats taking place as well, where the justice department did raise this trump post in social media about "im coming after you." now, trumps team, in response to that in their filing, theyre saying, that wasnt about sensitive information, that had nothing to do what were talking about here, that is what we call generalized political speech, pay no...

In discovery here, it could have a harmful chilling effect on witnesses, or adversely affect the fair administration of justice in this case. they have written a lot about precedent in these instances. so, basically what is happening is, the trump defense team has asked for all the information that they need to move forward with their defense. that is expected. the government has said, we need a little time to do. this because if we start handing this stuff over willy-nilly, your guy might start...

Comment trump made not calling jack smith deranged but saying the only civil rights that are being violated are mine, clearly a reference to one of the charges in this january 6 case. >> yes, i mean with him obviously attacking from trying to digs attract from what we saw in the 45 page indictment which we saw so this is his play civil rights talking about in the middle of an election so its election infeerns prosecutorial misconduct, referencing supreme court reference, i would love to hear him...

Justice department is taking this language from defended trump very seriously. the special counsel team cited trumps truth social post in an immediate and pressing requests for the judge to impose a protective order to prevent the former president from making public any sensitive information turned over by the prosecutors. from that request quote, such a restriction is particularly important in this case, because the defendant has previously issued public statements on social media regarding wit...