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Between former President Trump and special counsel jack smith. A short time ago, the federal judge overseeing trumps election case responded to a court filing from smith theres night. Smith is seek a protective order after trump posted this yesterday evening, saying, quote, if you go after me, im coming after you. Smith is pointing to that message and asking the judge in the case to set limits on trump and his legal team when it comes to publicly discussing sensitive evidence and the judge has given the trump team until 5 00 p. M. This sunday to respond. Just this afternoon, lawyers asked a judge for more time to weigh in on what restrictions should be imposed. Joining us now to discuss, democratic congresswoman Veronica Escobar of texas. Thanks for joining. When you saw these words that trump wrote in that threatening post, what did you think of that . What was your conce ....
The department of justice filed suit against texas. the doj asked the judge to accelerate the suit. the judge agreed. and there will be a hearing on this in a couple weeks on august 22nd. yeah, and i do want to ask you about some of this. as you know, two bodies have been found in the rio grande near floating buoys, deployed by the governor, greg abbott. the texas department of public safety says it s only aware of one drowning and it happened up river to the buoys and the body floated into the barrier. that s what they re telling the public. what s your reaction? what are state officials saying? what do we know? i have absolutely zero faith in what the texas department of public safety is telling the public. i don t know that they have the authority to make the determination about where these people drowned, and from the accounts that we re getting it s two people, including one child. i don t know that unless we ....
Have a witness or unless i hear it from federal law enforcement, we don t know if those two souls that were found in the buoys drowned near or at those buoys. we do know their bodies were caught it is incredibly gruesome and ghoulish. that should have been the alarm sounded to greg abbott to remove those buoys, but of course they just doubled down. they lean in, which is why it s so critical and i m so grateful to the department of justice and the biden administration for taking greg abbott to court. yeah, and as we were just talking about, this federal judge set a hearing date later this month, doj s lawsuit against texas to rovthese b buoys, and ts ek you called for the full force of the federal government to come down on governor abbott. we re showing your tweet right there could the administration be doing more in your view? are there other levers they ....
They wanted to use cruelty as a punishment against vulnerable souls seeking asylum. the abbott administration is no different, and in fact in many ways is even more cruel and engages in even deadlier conduct than the trump administration did. and it really it s so important that people also see the incredible hypocrisy that is involved here. the families that were separated, the husbands were taken from their families and arrested because of trespassing. well, greg abbott is trespassing on federal property and in international waters with his concertina wire, with the buoys. greg abbott is guilty of the very thing he is trying to punishment immigrants for. but never ttheless i will tell you, i am looking forward to the trial date. ....
Should be looking at? other tools in the tool belt they should be looking at to try to get something going down there? jim, it is my opinion that the federal government should send federal personnel to south texas and remove all of the concertina wire and remove the buoys. if someone placed items on my personal property, you better believe i d go out and i d remove them. but i will tell you there is a wisdom to what the department of justice is doing. as much as i want to see absolutely immediate action, the department of justice, the lawsuit that they are bringing against the state of texas, if the federal government prevails, and it is my hope that the federal government prevails, that will essentially prohibit greg abbott from doing this again on federal property. so i can see through the lawsuit ....