His lawyers latest moves and the battle of the Special Counsels request for a Protective Order. While jack smith fires back with his own response. Then ron desantis about face on his biggest 2020 election lies, as he attempts to revamp his 2024 campaign. And a look ahead to tomorrows political special election in ohio. What it could mean for the states constitution and the fight for abortion access. As the 11th hour gets underway on this monday night. Good evening once again. I am stephanie ruhle. We begin this evening in washington, d. C. Where lawyers for former president Donald J Trump have responded to Special Counsel jack smith request for a Protective Order in the 2020 election case. Trumps team countered with a narrower Protective Order that would allow him to publicly discuss some of the evidence collected by the government ahead of the trial. The Special Counsels office came back just hours later urging judge chutkan to forego and additional hearing and sign off on the governm
I am stephanie ruhle. We begin this evening in washington, d. C. Where lawyers for former president Donald J Trump have responded to Special Counsel jack smith request for a Protective Order in the 2020 election case. Trumps team countered with a narrower Protective Order that would allow him to publicly discuss some of the evidence collected by the government ahead of the trial. The Special Counsels office came back just hours later urging judge chutkan to forego and additional hearing and sign off on the governments proposed Protective Order. Jack smiths team said donald trump once to try this case in the media rather than in the courtroom. And our friend Glenn Kushner Glenn Kirschner said it best last week, judge tanya chutkan, she doesnt play. And we saw that tonight when she wasted no time responding at nine pm on monday night, ordering to see both sides and getting them to agree on a time for a hearing on this Protective Order, on or before this friday. All this after the former
because they know there s really no way to control what he says or to have him be disciplines defendant in any way. and just to underscore how extraordinary this is, it is really not normal to see any sort of criminal defendant out there in public, trashing the judge, trashing the prosecutor, trashing the sort of overall credibility of the case itself. but that is what we see from trump every day. still, this is not normal when out the window about six and a half years ago. this one does boggle mind. trump s defenders have been testing out this idea that he asked pence to overturn the election in a quote, aspirational way. i m not even sure i know that means. but given, that does the prosecution have to prove what donald trump believed? no. it does not. so stephanie, this is a part of the bigger strategy. obviously one of the pillars of the defense is to say things that are speech. that come out of your mouth, can t be crimes. we know that is not true. obviously, if you ask somebod
why trump s lawyers have been so adamant in pushing back against this request for a protective order to try to create, build structurally as much freedom as possible for their client, to be able to talk openly on social media and on the campaign trail about the discovery, about the various potential witnesses, about the prosecutor himself, and even about the judge. i mean, they re trying to create some space for trump because they know there s really no way to control what he says or to have him be disciplines defendant in any way. and just to underscore how extraordinary this is, it is really not normal to see any sort of criminal defendant out there in public, trashing the judge, trashing the prosecutor, trashing the sort of overall credibility of the case itself. but that is what we see from trump every day. still, this is not normal when out the window about six and a half years ago. this one does boggle mind.