“A major loss in court”

Deadline: White House

Nicolle Wallace, MS NOW

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🗓️ 26 September 2023

⏱️ 96 minutes

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Summary

Ali Velshi – in for Nicolle Wallace – discusses the breaking news that a judge in the New York civil case found the ex-president committed fraud, increasing calls for Senator Bob Menendez to resign, President Joe Biden’s trip to the UAW picket line in Michigan as the autoworkers’ strike becomes political – including reaction from the union’s president, former White House aide Cassidy Hutchinson’s bombshell first live TV interview, and more. Joined by: Tim Heaphy, Charlie Sykes, Catherine Ross, Barbara Boxer, Charlie Sykes, Seth Harris, Rick Stengel, Susanne Craig, Glenn Kirschner, Mimi Rocah, David Jolly, Shawn Fain, and Molly Jong-Fast.

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0:00.0	Hi everyone, it's 4 o'clock in New York, I'm Ali Velshi, in for Nicole Wallace.
0:11.3	High stakes legal battle between Donald Trump and the special counsel Jack Smith is unfolding
0:15.7	at this very moment.
0:17.4	At the heart of that battle is this question.
0:20.0	What is an ex-president with a history of inflammatory remarks allowed to say about
0:25.2	the criminal case involving the plot to overturn the 2020 election?
0:29.6	Mid last night, Trump's attorney's file a response opposing Jack Smith's request for
0:33.8	an order limiting what Trump can say about the case.
0:38.0	And that request is as close to seeing the responses as close to seeing Trump's very
0:42.5	own words and rhetoric in a court filing as it gets.
0:47.0	Attorneys for the ex-president accused the special counsel of asking the court to
0:51.0	quote, take the extraordinary step of stripping President Trump of his first amendment freedoms
0:57.4	during the most important months of his campaign against President Biden, end quote.
1:03.4	They say quote, now, keenly aware that it is losing that race for 2024, the prosecution
1:10.2	seeks to unconstitutionally silence President Trump's but not President Biden's political
1:16.2	speech on pain of contempt, end quote.
1:20.0	Now, if all this sounds familiar to you, it's because Trump's attorneys have been making
1:23.3	this argument for months now.
1:25.3	As the New York Times notes, almost from the moment Mr. Trump was indicted, his legal
1:29.4	team has raised a first amendment defense.
1:32.4	It's also defense that Jack Smith anticipated.
1:36.0	His indictment of Donald Trump on the election interference case says on the second page,
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