That could intimidate witnesses or jurors or even lead to harassment. And how do you think trump is responding . Ill give you a cliff hanger and tell you about that in just a moment. Plus it is day one of the auto workers strike. The first in history against all of the Big Three Auto Makers and the union is now warning that more workers will go on strike if they dont get the better pay and benefits they are demanding. They are walking the picket lines as we speak but in a matter of hours will be back at the Bargaining Table. The companies are fighting back, ford laying off 600 workers. Well talk to one striking worker, a mom of seven who works up to six days per week and is barely making enough to survive she says. Ill begin with the latest on the filing from the Special Counsel jack smith. Joining me live washington correspondent for the Atlanta Constitution and former associate white House Counsel to president george w. Bush. So happy you are all here. There is no surprise there has been a gag order for donald trump. We saw this coming in many respects right . The real issue here though is how do you have a gag order in place in a way that actually makes sense for somebody who needs to be vocal. He is running for office and is a criminal defendant who if in a courtroom could attack through counsel the credibility of those who are accusing him of something. How do you balance that . A great question. Most people accused of crimes at liberty have some limitations placed on their conduct. Most of my clients might have some reporting conditions and he hasnt had very many conditions imposed on him. He and his lawyers were warned not to say anything that could affect the integrity of the case. Unfortunately some of the things he has said on social media seem to have gotten under jack smiths skin. I think the judge will admonish him and tell him or at least tell his lawyers he cant use witness names and cannot intimidate or bribe witnesses. We have a little bit of his reaction already. Listen to what trump is already saying. Did you see today the deranged jack smith, the prosecutor, a deranged person wants to take away my rights under the First Amendment, my right of speaking freely and openly. It is a little more complicated. He is not talking about his preferred latte in this fall. He is talking about potentially, and is being accused of maybe intimidating, threatening or otherwise. What do you say to that argument . Obviously he is trying to put out there theyre trying to shut me down. It is a First Amendment issue. Most defendants this isnt a big deal. This is what is supposed to be done in a case to ensure it is handled properly. The problem is, he is running for office and one of the key issues in this campaign is did he win the last election . Was he trying to influence the Vice President to engage in illegal activity and did he cause insurrection. Hes not got a crazy point but he cant intimidate witnesses because he is a president ial candidate. Doesnt give him the right in an on going proceeding against him. The judge has to find some way to restrict him. The problem is what happens when he violates the order which he is going to. Is she going to impose sanctions . Put him in jail . It seems highly unlikely and it plays into his hands politically. She has already said there is a chance if he engages in this behavior she could move the trial date earlier. One of the issues if you put back on the screen what is being asked for from the Special Counsel, what they are trying to limit him, one involves statements regarding the identity, testimony, or credibility of prospective witnesses and beyond. There is an overlap. You are a member of the press. There is an overlap in terms of what is publicly available in places like georgia. Maybe grand juror information, etcetera, the taste and the appetite for information. And what he would then build on. Is there attention in your mind between what the press is trying to access and how he uses the information . Nene this request for a gag order there are provisions that he can quote from the Public Record and he can make statements about his case. What they are trying to get him to do is prevent him from attacking individuals whether the prosecutor, the judge, potential witnesses or jurors. In georgia since you mentioned that case as a condition of his Bond Agreement he is under a similar gag order already and i think, im not saying it eliminated his criticism of some of the people involved in the georgia case but i dont think weve seen some of the rhetoric we saw before the Bond Agreement. The implications are different because it is a condition of his bond but it can happen. Most people facing the case arent talking about the judge and prosecutor on social media, probably not talking about the case much at all. There is a way for donald trump to move forward on social media if there is a gag order. The question is will he comply . Were looking at some examples right now. We highlighted a portion of it. This is the tip of the iceberg in many ways talking about a biased trump hating judge, talked about jack smith being deranged calls the people around the Special Counsel a gang of thugs crime ridden and beyond. These are a couple things and i should mention just this last month by the way. One of the difficulties im sure youre seeing is all the different types of indictments facing this president. One in manhattan. One in georgia. You have maralago, washington, d. C. So him making a statement youll have to be as a prosecutor trying to figure out are you talking about me . I dont see anyone standing here. There are three other indictments happening right now. How is Defense Counsel when youre talking to your client. It was De Niro On A Friday Night thank you very much. How do you as a Defense Counsel figure out a way to help him in court and say your honor he is making general statements hes always made even before the indictments . I dont think he is listening to his lawyers i think youre right. He is presumed innocent so he has copyrnstitutional right to the prosecutors are making up stories about me and could even say the witnesses are. I know that is not exactly what jack smith wants. He wants to limit arguments against the witnesses credibility but that is integral to the presumption of innocence that you should be allowed to say things like those people are lying. That makes sense of course but then you think about the Defamation Case like the e. Jean carroll lawsuit where he believes he was simply denying an allegation and he is saying the person was a liar. Why is that something that i am going to be held to account for . It is difficult in the criminal context in the sense that this is someone presumed innocent as you are in the civil world but what are the guard rails . Are there any rules that apply to what a defendant can and cannot say prior to trial . It is clear you cant bribe witnesses or threaten witnesses and you cant obstruct justice. You cant do things that would try to interfere with an ongoing investigation. There are tons of things he is just not allowed to do and he can face criminal prosecution. One thing that is interesting here too is his words have already led to this particular judge getting threats and racial slurs. Weve seen already a person was arrested for doing those things. We can look at january 6th and see his words have a lot of consequences. That is going to be what the prosecutions arguments will be. Speaking of consequences and words we know tonight there are, the Special Counsel obtained 32 dms. One i wonder who slid into them and whose dms he slid into. Really interesting. What are they possibly looking for here . Apparently for the series of dms between october and january. Right around the time that the riots are being planned, the insurrection is being planned. They want to see what he is, who he is talking to. What is going on here. They got into a big fight with twitter which wanted to tell donald trump he was being, his dms were sought. The government fought hard to keep that out. The judge agreed. Now it is out. We know it is happening. Real interesting to see what in the dms if anything. Isnt it crazy to think about a man who says he doesnt email or keep records. He is notorious that he is intimating all of his directions and commands and you are supposed to extrapolate something more when he says it. That this might be part of what is being used potentially as evidence . I think it is so interesting that we think president trump, we know he had control, think about that. Most high level officials are not tweeting or checking their own dms because theyre flooded and they let a staffer, low level staffer handle all of that. To think the government had an indication that donald trump himself is dming people on twitter is really interesting. If and when the contents of the dms come out. It may really be earth shattering. I guess well see. It has to be good. You have to think about it. At the same token i wonder about the slippery slopes. Every time Something Like this happens especially because social Media Companies have been fighting this, could have the privacy concerns. Donald trump already said maybe a year or two ago he believes twitter is akin to the government. They could possibly sensor the First Amendment which we know they cannot. I wonder overall how this is going to play out if this kind of information is allowed to come in. What do you think . I mean, it is hard to know what it is that were looking at. If it is him planning the insurrection as you point out i think this will be very damming evidence used a against him i want to interject we know we are signing our life away when we join these social media sites. The fact that my dms at any given time could be subpoenaed or just leaked or used in some way by a third party that the social Media Company authorizes, i believe is probably already on the table as it exists. It doesnt surprise me that much. Whats in your dms . We hope it never comes back. Thank you so much. All of you. Coming up everyone the union is warning more auto workers may go out on strike. The companies are hitting back with layoffs. Next well go live to the picket line. Creeches energetic music plays there he is its right there oh, hes straight ahead. Hehes straight ahead. Straight ahead. Go go go. Cover more ground in the kia sportage turbohybrid. Kia. 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I want to go to cnns gabe cohen on the scene for us in toledo, ohio at the plant where more than 5,000 workers are on strike. It is the Largest Group by the way of the three plants striking. What is happening and what are they telling you . Reporter over the past 24 hours ive asked so many of these workers how long they think they can strike like this. The answer i keep getting is as long as it attacks. They point to the big three salaries, each making more than 20 million a year plus the massive, record profits that the companies could have been enjoying and they are telling me they want a bigger piece of the pie. The 13,000 workers on strike between this ohio facility, one in michigan and one in missouri are making just A Hundred Dollars a day in strike pay each of them paid by the union because they arent making a salary right now. They were told to be prepared for this moment and many told me they have been doing that for months even years some of them knowing this moment was coming. As you can hear the energy level tonight, day one, is still extremely high. The chanting and cheering. It is going to be interesting to see if that energy level stays high after days, even weeks with such little income. The uaw did not have negotiations today. They went on strike last night. But they do say they will trourn the Bargain Table tomorrow. What do we know about that . Thats right. Heading back to the Bargaining Table tomorrow and the union says it has sent new counteroffers to each of the big three. Now they are awaiting their responses. We dont know the details of what is in the proposals but are learning more about how big the divide is between the sides. With the head of the Auto Workers Union shawn fain saying tonight that 80 of the members demands have not been met by The Auto Makers in their offers to the union. Here is a little bit of what shawn fain had to say at a rally a couple hours ago in detroit. Class wars going on for 40 years in this country. The Billionaire Class has taken everything and the Working Class has been left scraping paycheck to paycheck trying to survive. It is time to end that class war. Its time to pick a side. Reporter as you can hear there, laura, obviously there is a lot of energy from the union, and it seems the divide is wide. Not a good sense of progress here but well see what happens tomorrow at the Bargaining Table. And no indication whether this will be concluded any time soon and how many more might go on strike. Thank you so much. I want to bring in california congressman ro khanna also the deputy whip for the congressional caucus. He joins us now. Thank you so much for joining us. This is very significant. We are 24 hours in. No more negotiations until tomorrow. The ripple effects have already started. Ford basically said i see your strike and i raise you with l layoffs. They told 600 workers who wrpt be striking they shouldnt come to work today. Gm told 2,000 at a kansas car plant their factory would likely shut down next week for lack of parts. Are you worried this could rapidly escalate . Laura, i am going on monday to stand with the uaw workers in toledo and michigan. You had mary barr out on cnn earlier and she was asked basic questions but was unable to answer. She was asked how are you making 30 million a year 300 times more than the average employee and no one is talking about cuts to the ceo pay. No one is talking about the cuts to the 5 billion they spend on Stock Buybacks and yet they are not willing to increase wages so that uaw workers ma ake a fair wage. They need to be very careful not to engage in retaliation in terms of laying off folks because that is illegal. We did invite the executives to join the program and they declined but many have gone on to talk about these things more broadly and the amount of pay the uaw is asking, a 40 raise, reinstate pensions, health care in retirement, Cost Of Living adjustments. These are things Many Americans dont already have but compared to the executives of course a very different story. How do you explain why these concessions are necessary without comparing to what the socalled fat cats are getting when you have Many Americans looking at this issue and comparing what they presently have to them . This is what we used to have in this country in terms of a family supporting wage. You could go to work for an auto company and support your family. You could own a house. That was the american dream. Then what happened is these big corporations basically Offshored Jobs and went for cheap labor and the Working Class was hollowed out. Shawn fain to his credit is saying enough. Workers deserve dignity especially because billions of your and my dollars are going to subsidize these companies. They cant come asking the government for billions of dollars and then say theyre going to continue increasing executive pay, continue enriching Share Holders with Stock Buybacks but not do enough for the workers. It is just not fair. I want to play what President Biden said. He called on auto makers to go further in their negotiating efforts. Auto companies have seen record profits including the last few years because of the extraordinary skill and sacrifices of uaw workers. Those record profits have not been shared fairly in my view with those workers. The bottom line is, auto workers helped create americas middle class. They deserve a contract that sustains them and the middle class. Youve heard what he had to say today but i will note the uaw president shawn fain has withheld the unions endorsement of the biden harris ticket and criticized him although President Biden says he is the most pro Union President of all american history. He has been krit viced for what they call a lack of support. Is President Biden at r