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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...

going down. national border patrol council, art del cueto on border officials that are fed up and peter doocy on where the president is heading right now. let me just tell you, it's not at the border. welcome, everybody with busy news day. much more on the affidavit situation, the border situation front and center for the time being. there we go to casey stegall in eagle pass with a certain big visit today. casey? >> yeah, neil. the visit is wrapping up as we speak. secretary mayorkas made at least two stops here in this border patrol sector while he was on the ground. but no events ...

Capitol hill, and this is cnn its Monday April 8 right now on cnn this morning, a Record Fundraising Haul for donald trump, the former president , also. Now, again, comparing himself to Nelson Mandela an engine cover coming loose on takeoff, forcing a southwest flights man Emergency Landing and the countdowns on. Are you all set for todays total Solar Eclipse 6 00 a. M. Here in washington, alive. Look at the Washington Monument on this Monday Mornings that son still hasnt made any appearance here in washington yet today, its going to be the star of the show throughout the afternoon. Good morni...

The white house, i don't know how much more specificity we would get in the affidavit did. i think what's probably in that affidavit are things like joe smith, a secret service agent who worked at mar-a-lago, told us that x, y, and z were in the storage room, things like that. that's what the justice department wants to keep secret. >> it seems to me -- he can get anything he wants. he can move against releasing also somewhat publicly, but continuing to leak out information. nuclear secrets and everything else, and people widely guessing and fearing without proof of anything. no single name at...

Democracy, and how do we prevent that happening again. >> won't that be with the mueller probe what the findings will do, that x, y, z happened, these are the players involved, then it would be up to congress to do something with it? >> correct. exactly. my expectation is that hopefully the mueller investigation goes unimpeded, and that's of great importance now. we still are not in the majority. >> you're still worried it is vulnerable? >> yes, exactly, at least for the next month. after we take the majority, my expectation is that mr. mueller will complete his investigation, produce a report...