Youre watching cnn newsroom, im rosemary church. Former u. S. President donald trump staring down a deadline related to charges he tried to overturn the 2020 election. Well hear from one of his lawyers. President joe biden is set to hit the road to tout his economic achievements to voters. An amazing rescue at sea. The trials this man endured during the trip out, before the coast guard found him alive. Special counsel jack smith has requested limitations on evidence provided to trumps team, specifically, theyre asking the former president not to receive his own copies of sensitive material fearing he could use it to threaten witnesses. The deadline to respond is just hours away. Smith responded to trumps post on social media. Including this one, if you go after me, im coming after you. One of trumps attorneys says he will fight the protective order, clai claiming prosecutors want to hide information from the american people. The point is that we will not agree to keeping information th
London max foster has the week off. Were trading places. Just ahead on cnn newsroom what President Trump did not do is direct Vice President pence to do anything. He asked him. The president was talking about us rejecting votes, his lawyers suggested that we return votes to the states. They were asking to return the election. He said, daddy, is this heaven . I said no, its iowa. November 2024, thats not the end of the a campaign. Its the start line of a national revival. Yes it just shows how cool this day sometimes can be. The smaller details makes the difference between winning and losing. Live from london, this is cnn newsroom with max foster and Bianca Nobilo. Its monday, august 7th, 9 00 a. M. Here in london, 4 00 a. M. In washington, where donald trump and his legal team are just hours away from another deadline in the case over his alleged efforts to overturn the 2020 u. S. President ial election. Prosecutors have requested limitations on evidence provided to trumps team. Specif
i m shocked that the press is not lining up rejecting this order. not only is trump being attacked for his first amendment rights, now the prosecutors are trying to infringe on the freedom of the press. trump said his legal team will be asking for the judge to be overseeing the case for a recruisal, on, quote, powerful grounds. his team may ask to move the case outside of washington, d.c. consider this. we could see his former vmt and current opponent for the nomination be called to testify against him. dana bash put that scenario to mike pence earlier. i have no plans to testify. we will always comply with the law. i want to tell you.
intent, had criminal intent, when he protested the results of the 2020 election. that s core freedom of speech. this comes as trump took to social media over the weekend claiming in a string of posts he won t receive a fair trial in washington and will likely request a change of venue for the case. he went on to say his team would immediately request a federal judge on the case recuse herself on the, quote, powerful grounds. in addition, the attorney says they plan to fight the justice department proposal. we will not agree to keeping information that s not sensitive from the press. the press and the american people in a campaign season have a right to know what the evidence is in this case, provided that this evidence is not protected otherwise. so, we re going to oppose it as we have but for whatever reason, these lawyers on the prosecution team want to keep that from the press. another hot topic centers around the claims that donald