Sixweek abortion ban to take effect in the state. But the court also is greenlighting a vote on a proposed state constitutional amendment protecting Abortion Rights for women and a new flashpoint in The Middle East right now is around threatens retaliation for a deadly attack on its Consulate Building In Syria, blaming israel for the airstrike. Were getting new reaction from a key member of congress this hour. Welcome to our viewers here in the United States and around the world. Im wolf blitzer, a urine the Situation Room the skis, cnn, breaking new a very busy night of Breaking News. We begin this hour with the new request to expand Donald Trumps gag order in the hushmoney criminal case. Exactly two weeks before the trial is set to begin. Thats going to see cnns chief Legal Affairs correspondent, paula reid. Paula give us the latest on this request by the Manhattan District Attorney and the trump teams response. So wolfe here, prosecutors are asking the judge to expand the gag order imposed on former President Trump to include Family Members of people involved in the case. Its last week, this gag order was imposed that prohibits trump from making statements about witnesses, jurors prosecutors, court staff, or the Family Members of prosecutors and court staff. But the gag order does not apply to the District Attorney, alvin bragg, or the judge overseeing the case. And shortly after this gag order was imposed, trump fired off a series of social media posts attacking the judge and attacking his adult daughter, who works for a Political Consulting firm and will if there was some confusion about whether the gag order applied to that daughter because again, it does not apply to the judge. Both sides have sought clarification today, the District Attorneys Office Writing quote, the defendant knows what he he is doing, and everyone else does too. And we all know exactly what the defendant intends because he has said for decades that it is part of his Life Philosophy to go after his perceived opponents as viciously and violently as he can now, the trump team is also responded. They insist that they do not read this gag order as applying to the Family Members of the judge or the District Attorney. And they oppose any suggestion that it should be expanded to include those group because they argue that this is a violation of trumps political speech. They wrote today, the court should good reject the peoples invitations to expand the gag order, which is already an unlawful prior restraint, then properly restricts Campaign Advocacy by the Presumptive Republican nominee and leading candidate in the 2024 president ial election. Now, wolf with just two weeks to go before this trial begins, are also asking for more time to file a motion to remove judge juan merchan from this case. Now, they tried something similar last year that was rejected, but the Trump Legal Team says they now have new evidence, so all of this now up to the judge sorry, paula. Thank you very much, Paula Reid Reporting for us while this dispute over trumps gag order plays out, the Presumptive Republican president ial nominee has been ramping up his inflammatory rhetoric on multiple fronts, even as he prepares to return to the Campaign Trail, cnns Kristen Holmes is joining us now from green bay, wisconsin, where trump will campaign tomorrow. Kristen, give us the latest of what trump is doing and saying as he begins a critical month in his legal battles well look donald trump has been railing against not only the judge, but the prosecutor and the judges daughter. This has been a technique that we have seen him use time and time again and he has no plans of stopping anytime soon. Donald trump is set to return to the Campaign Trail tuesday with visits to the critical Battleground States of michigan and wisconsin. But his focus appears to be on his impending criminal trial in new york, which is all about election interference, pumping his combative rhetoric, trump spent the Easter Holiday attacking perceived enemies in a series of social media posts, writing, quote, happy easter to all, including crooked and corrupt prosecutors and judges, and going after the judge, overseeing his new york hush money case and his daughter by name, as he seeks to discredit the case against him. I have a trumphating judge with the trumphating wife and family, the remarks come as judges around the country. Our voicing concern over trumps attacks on the men and women assigned to hear its cases. We do these jobs because were committed to the rule of law and we believe in the rule of law and the rule of law can only function effectively when we have judges who are prepared to carry out their duties without the threat of potential physical harm. Ive presided over thousands of hearings and trials during my nearly 20 years as a trial judge and never did any defendants in my courtroom show such disrespect for the court system as whats shown by donald trump. Trump . But also sharing a video that featured an image of President Joe Biden tied up in the back of a pickup truck. The former president saying in the friday social media post that the video was filmed a day earlier on long island, where trump attended the wake of an nypd officer who was recently killed during a traffic stop. We have to get back to law and order. The Biden Campaign responding in a statement, quote, trump is regularly inciting Political Violence and its time people take him seriously. Just ask the Capitol Police officers who were attacked protecting our democracy on january 6, some republicans taking issue with trumps post. But falling short of condemning the former president wallace to raise the bar of civility and how we treat the other side of the aisle for sure. And i dont think he was a sighting violence, but it is representative of the political dialogue we have today at the end of the day the former president , current president and on down all of us have a responsibility to check our language to watch what were saying and to focus on the issues at hand. The video marking another instance of trump using violent and grim imagery in his campaign messaging, via dont get elected. Its going to be a bloodbath to poisoning the blood of our country thats what theyve done. The radical left thugs that live like vermin within the confines of our country President Biden saying, today he believes his candidacy offers a clear contrast with trumps dark rhetoric. I just think people are so tired of a negativity that is propagated that they just, they just want to get engaged. They want it change things. And im optimistic. I really am and open donald trump is in michigan and wisconsin. It will be the first time we see him on the Campaign Campaign trail in a number of weeks, its a reminder these are two very critical Battleground States for both biden and trump. Trump won them in 2016 but lost them to joe biden in 2020. Trump himself has not been here in wisconsin since 2022, but i will tell you is Campaign Says that they are feeling confident. They say theyve seen data that shows him in biden running neck and neck, but well see what happens when we talked to voters tomorrow. Welfare shall cri Kristen Holmes was reporting for us. Thank you very much. I want to bring in our legal Law Enforcement and political experts are right now and andrew mccabe, let me start with you. This hush money trial in manhattan. How significant is it that alvin bragg himself is now asking the judge to clarify this entire gag order. Wolff, im afraid that the requests for clarification by dk bragg is a perfect example of how these gag orders create more of a distraction than they do a productive limitation of this. Donald trumps speech. I think each time weve had a gag order, whether its in the civil case or its in this criminal case, or the gag order in the dc federal case. Thats already been litigated each time the team takes advantage of the imposition of those orders to file appeals, to request clarification to make overheated statements. It all of that distracts the prosecutors and the Prosecution Team away from there. Hey, role which is to stay focused on the case and put together the bestcase they can im just not convinced that these gag orders are worth the effort that has to go behind. And i think trumping his attorneys know exactly what theyre doing, which is trying to delay everything because you end up going down rabbit hole why do you do with the gag order . Do you challenge the gag order . Do you challenge that . The judge and one thing leads to another and youre delaying the trial. Its interesting and norm, do you think that this judge judge murcia is well expand the gag order especially in light of the fact that trump went after an attack is the judge just daughter. I think its a closed question whether the judge desk expand the gag order wealth he would be on Sound Constitutional Grounds to do it. Youre not allowed to make these kinds of statements and misstatements that create a threat and risk to the Family Member of the judge trump included disinformation about lauren, the judges daughter however, the judge may feel to andys point that it be extends it further. Hes taking trumps beit. Hes making him self look like hes partial protecting his daughter. So hes wrestling with that. He hasnt ruled yet. I do think that the gag orders if andy will accept a friendly amendment, the gag orders are very important because of the risk to witnesses two members of the jury to Court Personnel that can disrupt an entire trial. We need those protections, but well see if the judge takes another step. What happens to trump if he continues to violate the gag order . Well, we saw that trump is doing the same thing here, wealth as he did in the civil fraud case with jurors that and goren, where instead of attacking and adult daughter, he had attacked the judges adult law clerk, also a woman and there he hammered and hammered, hammered. He got sanctioned when he got sanctioned multiple times, he finally stopped its amazing, gloria, despite what trump is doing attacking these people publicly going after Family Members of a judge or a District Attorney for that matter, he still has this overwhelming support among the republicans. Sure. Because look, his whole point is that hes being persecuted and hes taking the hit for you you because if it could happen to him, it can happen to you. And he portrays himself as the victim here, as he reminds us. Every day of Justice System that doesnt work. That is, that is stock stacked against him. And his supporters believe that and that is one of the reasons he keeps doing this because hes playing to his base and again, as we were talking about before, hes very happy to go down this rabbit hole. He is really happy to go back and forth on these questions of whether a judge should be disqualified or whether you got to come up with another gaggle order because it delays the start of the trial, which is exactly what he wants. Andrew use a former Deputy Director of the fbi. How concerned should Law Enforcement be right now that trumps extreme rhetoric going after these individuals could potentially, potentially lead to violence it could absolutely lead to violence. Thats how concerned they should be. This is no longer a theoretical construct. We know that the former president s moos, diehard supporters, some of them, those with the most extremist views, listen very closely to what he says and they take action based based upon the direction they believe hes giving them several thousand of them showed up at the capitol on january 6, 2021 for exactly that reason, you had individuals like Riki Shiffrin who attacked the Fbi Field Office in cincinnati in 2022 because he was outraged by what he saw. Law enforcement executing a Search Warrant at maralago and he was energized by the former president s statements about that Search Warrant. So these things have happened. They should absolutely be preparing for more of that. Lots of stake right down. Well watch it very, very closely, guys. Thank you very, very much. 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