Hes the former Nixon White House counsel. John, you and i have spoken about this and donald trump so many times, but, you know, as i was discussing with one of our producers before this program got started, in the past, you know, we would talk about Donald Trumps tweets and his social media posts and wonder what the impact might be. But it sounds as though the Special Counsel in this case, jack smith, is really seizing on this very inflammatory, threateningsounding post from donald trump on truth social and alerting it to the judge. The government arguing that the restrictions that theyre seeking are necessary to prevent trump from publicly disclosing sensitive discovery information. Can you walk us through what this means . Yeah. It looks like the post from trump came out while they were working on a motion to agree upon a protective order in general to Exchange Discovery material. And this obviously caught their attention. This is not the sort of norm that theyre used to dealing with
Saying if trump were to begin posting details from grand jury transcripts it could have a Chilling Effect on witnesses. Remember this is just 24 hours after his arrest and arraignment in his third indictment over election interference and after the judge warned him against making threats. Lets go straight to john dean, hes the former Nixon White House counsel. And john, you and i have spoken about this and donald trump so many times, but, you know, as i was discussing with one of our producers before this program got started, in the past we would talk about Donald Trumps tweets and his social media posts and wonder what the impact might be, but it sounds as though the Special Counsel in this case, jack smith, is really seizing on this very inflammatory, threatening sounding post from donald trump on truoct to the judge. The government arguing that the restrictions that theyre seeking are necessary to prevent trump from publicly disclosing sensitive discovery information. Can you walk u
dark clouds, threatening and delivering plenty of showers, as you can see on the cloud and radar pictures. you might imagine with a showery picture we have low pressure sitting right over the uk. not the strongest, deepest one we have ever seen and the winds are fairly light. that doesn t mean the showers, when you have got them, lost a bit longer than they would do otherwise. very few fliess agriplace a shower or two today. very little in the way of sunny spells even in between them. temperature struggling today, a five o clock this afternoon come into the low teens for many. they will be fewer showers in northern ireland and sunny spells into this evening. a line of showers developing to south west england, the middles, home counties and towards eastern england which could be thundery in places. the channel islands may be dry with sunny spells throughout. quite often, showers die away towards the end of the day. not for england and wales, some will continue all night. turni
there a few moments ago saying his remarks were a figure of speech. what do you think? well, first of all, thank you for having me. b now, all i know is he better correct his tone and show some respect for america s work force. i am an american army veteran myself. over 500,000 u.s. veterans are wearing a separate uniform in service to their country. and a third they expect america s enemies on the front lines to threaten their lives, not someone that s running to be commander in chief. and this type of violent, authoritarian rhetoric is disturbing, it s disgraceful, and it s disqualifying. and it s also deliberate. he recently made similar throat
deliberate. he recently made similar throat slitting comments about pentagon officials. it s not a mistake or something he can try to brush off as a metaphor. it s intentional. do you think this could have this this kind of rhetoric could have real-life consequences for your members? well, you know, i think that we have already a case in point. we can look at what happened on january 6th and see that this type of rhetoric, you know, has a way so i think that s correct. as you know, ron desantis is not the only candidate to vow to clean house. the front-runner in this race right now for the republican nomination, donald trump, has been calling for a purge of federal employees. he s done it time and again. let s listen to what he s had to say before. the deep state is destroying our nation, but the tables must turn, and we will quickly