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>> i read a lot of breaking news this evening, just moments ago, a string of developments regarding donald trump's third and arguably most important indictment. judge tanya chutkan, who's overseeing this case, just denied at trump's legal team an extension to respond to a protective order request from the special counsel's office. now, prosecutors filed the request for the protective order with the judge last night, asking that to trump be barred from disclosing any evidence in the investigation, as the discovery phase begins. in the request, the special counsel cited a post from trump 's fail...

Order request from the special counsel's office. prosecutors filed a request for the protective order with judge tanya chutkan late friday night to bar trump of exposing any evidence in the investigation as a discovery phase begins. in their requests, the special counsel prosecutors cited a post from trump that said quote, if you go after me i am coming after you. that threat only serves to highlight a stirring rebuke of trump and his inaction during the insurrection from congresswoman liz cheney. at the final public hearing of the january 6th select committee. >> no man who would behave that ...

Several other similar lawsuits against the social media giants, many of them represented by bergman, at least for the discovery phase of the case. tammy's lawsuit alleges that by mid-2021, selena was communicating with over 2,500 different individuals, all be a handful of whom were complete strangers to her and many of whom were adult users of defendants' products. >> in selena's case, all we have is one of her instagram accounts and we don't yet have her snapchat and tiktok accounts. i shutter to think what we're going to see when we get the rest of it. >> reporter: tammy's lawsuit describes ...

>> reporter: so your case doesn't rest on that alone? >> no, no. there's a reason why i brought tammy and other families there. it is going to matter. but i'm not going to give up. >> reporter: as for tammy's case, the defendants, meta, snap, tiktok and bytedance have filed to dismiss it citing section 230 of the communications decency act. their brief says it bars all of tammy's claims which are fundamentally based on third-party content. for now, the case rolls on. it's been bundled together with several other similar lawsuits against the social media giants, many of them represented by berg...

Everything that could be used to undermine the credibility of our witnesses. and that's part of what due process requires of the government and every defendant, whether it's donald trump or somebody who is much less notable without those resources is entitled to get from the government. >> and let's just say donald trump because he does have a pretend twitter, and he does use it quite extensively, were to, what does he call it, truth out something that he learned in this discovery phase. what would be the penalty because he has been told he's not supposed to do it. what if he did it anyway? >>...