Judge issues protective order in Trump election case

The 11th Hour with Stephanie Ruhle

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🗓️ 12 August 2023

⏱️ 42 minutes

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Judge Chutkan issued a protective order against former President Trump and cautioned him against intimidating witnesses. Plus, Attorney General Merrick Garland appoints a special counsel in the Hunter Biden probe. Jon Allen, Tia Mitchell, David Jolly and Renato Mariotti break down today’s biggest stories. And later, Steve Liesman, Abby Livingston, Sami Sage and Bill Carter hit the roundtable for the Friday Nightcap to talk about the economy, Hollywood strikes and share this week’s MVPs.

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0:00.0	Tonight, the judge overseeing Trump's election case lays down the law, saying his First
0:06.4	Amendment right to freeze speech is not absolute, while issuing a warning about what he must
0:12.0	not do.
0:13.6	Then the Attorney General elevates the prosecutor investigating Hunter Biden to special counsel.
0:19.4	Why now and could the President's son be headed to trial?
0:23.0	And our Friday night cab crew weighs in on the week from the economy and the raise for
0:27.9	the White House to the fight over AI in Hollywood as the 11th hour gets underway on this Friday
0:34.0	night.
0:39.6	Good evening.
0:40.6	Once again, I'm Stephanie Rule.
0:42.1	It is Friday and we've got a fantastic night cab crew recapping the week that was.
0:47.9	But first, let's talk about the day that is.
0:50.8	And today we saw major developments in cases involving the current and former President.
0:56.3	NDC, Judge Tonya Chukkin issued a protective order in Donald Trump's 2020 election interference
1:02.9	case, after hearing arguments from the government and lawyers for Trump.
1:09.0	She put everything that has to do with witnesses in the compartment of sensitive information,
1:14.9	not just grand jury witnesses, anyone that the government has interviewed.
1:19.2	That's the first thing.
1:20.4	And that the second thing is, even as she gave a nugget to the Trump defense team of
1:26.4	not defining everything as sensitive materials, she took it away by making clear that anything
1:32.3	the government was concerned about in terms of both impairing the jury pool and also going
1:39.1	after witnesses would violate the order anyway.
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