so what will happen if his hands are tied? former president trump appeared in new york courtroom this afternoon. this time via zoom, in the hush money case involving stormy daniels. this hearing, the first since he pleaded not guilty to 34 felony counts of falsifying business records last month laid out what donald trump and his lawyers can and cannot say publicly about the case. more on what that entails in a moment and what was said in the courtroom. also in manhattan today, another lawsuit against the former president. this one familiar. e. jean carroll has amended her suit against donald trump. she s now asking for at least $10 million in damages after she says donald trump defamed her again, calling her a whack job at the cnn town hall he participated in the night after he was found liable for sexual abuse. we ll also explain how that case will proceed. joining me from outside the courtroom now for that hush money case first is lisa ruben. lisa, you were inside that room
actions the attorney general merrick garland oversaw actions that were taken by jack smith, the special counsel. she wanted to know, for instance, whether the attorney general, specifically on personally approved the indictment. this indictment against donald trump and a couple of other people who worked for him here in fort pierce. and she also questioned trump s attorneys when trump s attorneys emil bove beauvais, said that he believed that jack smith was essentially a shadow government the argument that they were making here today will, was that jack smith was illegally appointed by the attorney general because he came from outside the government. he s not someone who has been approved by the senate. this is a long-shot request, but it is one that the judge for some reason decided needed to be heard, needed to have have an entire hearing. and she also allowed outside parties are groups that had nothing to do with this case, to actually spend a couple of hours making argume
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abuse. we ll also explain how that case will proceed. joining me from outside the courtroom now for that hush money case first is lisa ruben. lisa, you were inside that room. you saw the former president on the zoom. tell me what the judge said. tell me what the president said. let s start with the president s demeanor. he looked dour and unhappy as i ve seen him in a long time. the judge said the march 25th, 2024 trial date is firm in the hush money case is firm. he expects all parties and counsel to clear their calendars and at that point, donald trump went like this and scowled. that was what provoked his greatest eyre during the hearing. the judge also reviewed the terms of the protective order with donald trump but not line by line.
urgency since august 15th of last year. you know, there hasn t been a coordinated plan. there s been lots of statements condemning the taliban, but not much in terms of actual actions. some of the action that s we think that they could take is for one thing, 13 members of the taliban leadership currently had exemptions to the travel bans that they re under. those exemptions expire on august 20th. and we d like to see the security council remove all of those exemptions and consider adding additional taliban leaders to be particularly involved in human right abuses to that risk. second of all in september, the human rights council will convene again. and we want to see them put in place a much stronger mechanism to monitor the human rights situation in afghanistan. and collect evidence of abuses that can be used for prosecution. we have seen signs of defiance from women. they re not being cowled.