Week of september, fifth right after labor day. Meanwhile, a judge will hear mark meadows request to moves child out of georgia tsais or sue federal court. That core data is now set for august 28th. Also this, evening we are learning more from a new legal filing about what special counsel jack smith was looking for in Donald Trumps twitter account. Earlier this, year smith got a Search Warrant to access a whole range of information from trumps account, including direct messages, draft, with and location data. The former president is now, facing i want you to think, about this a total of 91 separate Felony Charges after separate indictments. His republican backers, claim all of these charges are just the result of corruption and conspiracies against trump, but please remember, those charges, many one charges represent the work of multiple grand juries, which are made up of every day americans. There are separate judges, prosecutors, and investigators, not the socalled deep state. No surprise, donald trump is continuing his relentless attacks on officials involved in these prosecutions. Judge whos overseeing the fuller has officially warned him about making inflammatory statements, but he is not stopping. Tonight, a texas woman is under arrest, for allegedly threatening to kill if trump does not get elected in 2024. Nbc news has learned, some Trump Supporters have posted online the supposed names and addresses of a grand jurors who indicted trump on monday. People who are simply doing their civic duty. Patriots. Earlier today, one former top official of the white house in his spoken out against trump since, offered this warning. We now have a Political Party that is mainstream that violence as unacceptable tactic in these studies show, the gop base is embracing it. Donald trump continues to blow that dog whistle, were talking about real threats of real people. You have to take it seriously. With that, lets get smarter with the help of our Leadoff Panel tonight. Senior Legal Affairs reporter Wall Street Journal reporter based in atlanta, and former u. S. Based attorney joyce vance who spent 25 years that a federal prosecutor. Cameron, i know you have interviewed fani willis, you know this, woman she has set a very aggressive timeline for this case. What should we take away from that . Well, it is not surprising that she did so. She has been very clear that she has been a Marshall Ford on this case, despite all of the annoyance around, it she is moving forward, moving forward quickly. Having said that, i think her timeline will be complicated by a question made today, and certainly going to object and be motions to delay. But, shes making it clear she is going to this is just days after the indictment shot, she is seeking to set a trial date. She is also, as you know, august 25th as the time when everybody has to show up to the courthouse, be booked, or they are going to be issued for the arrest. So moving forward. What can you tell us about the judge in georgia . Well, i just actually wrote a story about it. A very young man, 34 years, old just got on the bench, just got on the bench earlier this year. February this year. He is a former prosecutor. So we did not really he certainly has never handled a case like this since no one has. But, he is been described as a very balanced for professional, but this is going to be the ultimate test of a guy who just started on the job. Okay, joyce, im thinking about this date that fani willis wants in march for a trial. The fact that it is trump and 18 other defendants. What is this thing supposed to look like . Donald trump Standing Shoulder to shoulder with these people in one courtroom . So, i suspect by the time this case goes to trial, she will have lost some of those defendants. They will have either pled guilty street up, or they will have pled guilty and engaged in Cooperation Deals with her. But you know, prosecutors do these large cases, sometimes you have to reorganize the courtroom in little bit. You have to accommodate a defendant, their lawyer, perhaps a couple of lawyers and paralegal. So you will see long lines of tables in the courtroom, with defense teams. This can be condo sent in court as well, sometimes to hear a witness testify and prosecutors and judges are used to handling, it is maybe a bit less than an ideal situation, but donald trump will proceed to trial unless the judge orders otherwise with all of his codefendants. They remain in the case, and that will happen at some point in time, perhaps not on precisely the aggressive schedule that fani willis has asked for. When do you think it will . You know, it is hard to say, the only reason i make that comment is because, there will be such a barrage of fruit pretrial motions. We are seeing the beginning of it now with Mark Meadows Motion to remove the federal judge has set a really aggressive schedule. Hes holding a hearing in two weeks. In fact, he may be so fast that trump may perhaps change his mind about trying to remove the case to federal court. But that said, we will see these motions from other defendants. Jeff clark who is doj, very likely to make a removal motion. Trump himself. House these Motions Pileup and require some sort of a resolution, this may slow fani willis is desired scheduled all right, kyle, new, topic, one i have been laser be focused on all day. I mean, i actually read this 200 pager. Twitter and the doj, if you read the twitter filing, all 200 pages, you come away with the following. That this judge, judge howell, its an absolute powerhouse. She grilled twitter and the doj about dms, pleaded messages, as though she ran a tech company, not like shes a judge whos also overseeing, you know, insurrection cases multiple days a week. And what it appears is that donald trump was either sending or receiving a ton of dms, or both, and the doj was laser focused on getting all this information immediately. And what was even more stunning is that twitter work really, really hard and spent Tons Of Money Fighting to not give this information up. So, essentially fighting on Donald Trumps behalf. So the question is, kyle, why . I know your all over this. Why on earth would twitter go through such Great Lengths not to share this information with the government . Well, you mentioned beryl howell, she had an idea of the answer to that question, she raise it repeatedly in these transcripts that we were reading out. You know, look, jack smith got what he wanted eventually, but the fight and the judge kept saying for what possible region could you have to stand up for this particular person when youve never done this in the entire history of twitter, tried to stop the government, essentially, essentially they wanted to tell donald trump that the government got a Search Warrant for his account. And the judge said, why would you want this . And she even said, is it because your new ceo wants to cozy up to donald trump . Does elon musk have something to do with this . And twitter lawyer said no, thats not, it we just want to stand up for the Constitutional Rights of the country and our users. But the judge and the prosecutor said, well, how come youve never done that before in any other circumstances . Theres something about this particular user that this company at this time wants to protect. And what was their answer . Whats that . And what was their answer . There wasnt really one. It was just we protect our users and this is a unique user where there might be executive privilege issues, unlike any other user in our history. But the judge said why is that different than any proves that anyone else could raise, like marital privilege or some sort of religious privilege, why do you stand up for users in those privileges . And they really can distinguish. Kyle, how important was this information on the twitter account to jack smith case . Well, some of that we may have yet to learn when we see more details. But you know, we know in the indictment, they said donald trump sent ex tweet at x time. I think whether things he probably learned was which device did these tweets come from. Was it donald trump sending these tweets, versus an aid in a different part of the white house . And i think is important to know Donald Trumps mindset. Was he the one sending the specific tweets that we have written and talk so much about related to january 6th . And i think the fact that the indictment says, yes, donald trump sent this particular tweet suggests that they know that for certain based on the data they got from twitter. Joyce, these two direct messages, doesnt it seem out of character for donald trump . He is well known. He does not use email. He doesnt taxed. He doesnt like to sign his name. Very well known for no paper trail. Did donald trump fall into the trap that the rest of us do, which is sloppy texting . You know, its intriguing, because trump notoriously doesnt taxed. He knows not leave a paper trail. And trump as employees have articulated that he does not do that. Likely what happened here is it did not occur to him that there might come a time where the Justice Department would be able to access his account here and see what was going on behind the scenes on his twitter account. And as kyle says, this is so essential and this is something prosecutors do, for instance, when they access email accounts, you can look at draughts, you can look at interactions between people, in this case with trump, you can see if it was actually trump who logged in or someone else. You can determine that from geolocation data. E that froso, a lot of really fg evidence, information, that the former president left behind. And its likely simply because he failed to realize the government could ultimately access it. Kyle, help us understand how much the government wanted this information, what they were willing to find twitter day in and day out if they didnt get it. Well, the filing we all saw unsealed was an effort to hold twitter in contempt. That was another aspect of this. Judge howell was just so bothered by the fact they blew past two Court Ordered deadlines to shes holding them in contempt of the government urging. They ended up being fined about 350,000 for three days of violations, and part of that was the judge said, hey, elon musk is a billionaire, he just bought this company, and he can afford it. So, she find them 50,000 with a fine that was going to double every day. So, it was 50,000 the first, a 100,000 the next day, 200,030, and finally after that, they gave up all the data. 300,000 for what . I cannot wait to see. I hope we do what was in those messages. Cameron, lets talk about something more serious. There is unrest over a death threat against the judge and the federal election case. Right. Georgia grand jurors names and addresses have been posted, and those people could be in danger. Are people in atlanta talking about Security Concerns as this case moves forward . Well, the truth is, weve been talk about Security Concerns here for years now. And as you know, in preparation, the indictment that came down monday, we had lots of security around the Fulton County courthouse. They are putting up barricades. Their Police Presence was extreme. There was bomb sniffing dogs. And that is gonna be something that everyone is gonna be thinking about. Certainly, when this play when this trial takes place, in whatever manner it takes shape, theres gonna be intense security at the courthouse. And we have lots of concerns about that. District attorney willis as certainly made that a big issue for her when she let us all know that these were coming, these indictments were coming she definitely let everyone know that the sheriff needed to be on high alert because of Death Threats that everyone has been receiving. Theyve been receiving Death Threats. She certainly has received, in the sheriff has received them. We had numerous Death Threats during 2020. So, everyone is on high alert here, for sure. Joyce, lets talk about Rudy Giuliani. At one point, he was a very well respected mayor of new york city. He then took a turn, hungry for money, power, proximity to donald trump, and became one of his closest allies and confidence and advisers. And cnbc is now reporting while he did advise donald trump, trump never paid him. And now, what is Rudy Giuliani doing . Facing charges himself. Do you think that will increase the chances he could flip on trump . Well, trump doesnt seem to have learned the lesson of michael cohen, right, where he, instead of Holding Cohen close, let him slip further out and ultimately cohen did talk with authorities. But that was during the Trump Administration and the trump lead Justice Department, and that case was one and done, nothing came of it. This is a different situation. And many of these individuals who find themselves indicted alongside trump will have to make a very calculated decision about whether they want to spend years, potentially, in a georgia prison. I think for many of these people, and Rudy Giuliani knows a lot more about bad present conditions that many people do, that may become a compelling factor. And when you line that up with his inability to afford the kind of lawyers that all of us would probably want to have in this sort of a situation, he may be interested in pleading guilty. Whether or not prosecuted believe he has anything to offer them at this point is an entirely different calculation. All right, well, that might be rudys calculus. But joyce, is trumps calculus that, yes, rudy knows a lot, and in theory, could harm trump . But be honest, is there any prosecutor out there that would view Rudy Giuliani as a credible cooperating witness, given all the answers weve seen over the last few years . It would be tough to put Rudy Giuliani on the witness stand without a lot of kerrobert of material. But remember, this is someone who worked inside of the criminal Justice System for many years. He would be able to appreciate the situation that he is now in. And if anyone knows what he has to offer prosecutors, its giuliani. So, whether thats witness testimony, information that he could offer that they could corroborate, thats something that he would determined put forward with them. Trump certainly is not acting like someone who is concerned that giuliani will either flip, cooperate, or either have anything valuable if he does. He seems to really be paying him very little attention at this point in time. Wow, we have a lot to cover tonight, guys. Thanks for starting us off, joyce vance, cameron mcwhirter, and kyle cheney, thank you so much. When we come back, new reporting, were going to stay on elon musk. His company, formally twitter, now x, consciously slowing down traffic to websites that mr. Musk doesnt like. Jake ward is here on that. And the companys slow walking that warrant from jack smith. Were going to go even deeper. 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But according to new analysis from the washington post, the site formally known as twitter, now known as x, has been slowing down traffic to website its ceo elon musk doesnt like, including the New York Times and facebook. The post reports, by tuesday afternoon after their story was published, x started to reverse the slowdown on some of those sites, dropping the delay times back to zero. Curious. So, lets discuss. Nbc Tech Correspondent jake ward is here. He wrote the book the loop, how technology is creating a World Without choices and how to fight back. Jake, i had have you want to discuss this. Elon musk says he is all about free speech. But it turns out he is all about free speech when its nights to him and about him, its hes more like a free speech occasional assist. It really is true, steph, we have come so far from the early days when he first walked into twitter and said he was going to make that place a bastion of saying whatever you want, you, no talking about replatforming the president because, you know, there should be any kind of special standards, all of that stuff. But here we are, we are fighting for that is absolutely relative to his personal preferences. According to the washington post, as you mentioned, as of tuesday, all sorts of t dot coal links, those are the length that you click when you go to twitter, are getting throttled for about five seconds. Which as you know, that is an unbearable amount of time. And thats four lengths to New York Times, that was linked to some of these rival provinces come up, like blue sky, which is supposed to be a friendly alternative to twitter. So, it turns out it is not just a matter of delivering things as fast as possible to users, the way tha