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You are live in the cnn newsroom. Im jim acosta in washington. Good evening. We are inching closer to i deadline in the governments case against former President Donald Trump over his efforts to overturn the 2020 election. Trumps lars now have about 22 hours to respond to a legal filing from special counsel jack smith. He requested a protective order after trump posted this on social media on friday. If you go after me, im coming after you. Smith wants the judge to limit trump and his legal team from publicly discussing sensitive evidence in the election interference case. Today on cnn we hear...

That trump essentially made on social media late friday evening. i was wondering what you thought of that. >> you know, usually it's a safe bet, jim, that a defendant spouting off -- a long leash. i will say that obviously donald trump is going to get some leeway. but this is not the right judge for him to try to do this in front of. i do think she's going to, you know, eventually bring resources to bear there and potentially issue orders to try to curtail his ability to continue influencing a potential jury pool. and jack smith i think is rightfully as the prosecutor going right out in front ...