Minutes away: Trump team deadline on evidence rules
The Lead with Jake Tapper
CNN
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🗓️ 7 August 2023
⏱️ 41 minutes
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| 0:00.0 | Donald Trump has less than an hour to respond to a judge. |
| 0:05.6 | The lead starts right now. |
| 0:09.0 | Lawyers for Donald Trump approaching a 5 p.m. deadline as prosecutors push to limit |
| 0:13.5 | what the former president can say about the federal case against him. |
| 0:17.9 | And after years of dodging the question, Governor Ron DeSantis bluntly says, of course, |
| 0:22.2 | Trump lost the 2020 election, as the former president's rival tries to reset his campaign. |
| 0:28.4 | Plus, Pink is the new green, Barbie, Taylor Swift, and Beyonce proving to be big business |
| 0:34.8 | for the U.S. economy. |
| 0:41.8 | Welcome to the lead everyone. |
| 0:42.8 | I'm Piana Goladriga in for Jake Tapper. |
| 0:44.8 | We start today with our law and justice lead. |
| 0:47.3 | Donald Trump is on the clock. |
| 0:49.3 | His lawyers have just minutes to let a judge know what they think about a request that |
| 0:53.2 | would block Trump from sharing some of the evidence in the January 6 case. |
| 0:57.8 | Prosecutors say if Trump were to start publicly talking about or posting about evidence in |
| 1:02.5 | the case, it could have a chilling effect on witnesses. |
| 1:05.8 | And they pointed this post, Trump shared on Truth Social on Friday, where he wrote, quote, |
| 1:11.2 | if you go after me, I'm coming after you. |
| 1:14.3 | But Trump's lawyers say over the weekend, they're going to fight this request because |
| 1:18.5 | they think the public should be able to see the evidence before the trial. |
| 1:22.9 | In another major development in the case, CNN has exclusive reporting about an interview |
| 1:27.2 | the special counsel conducted today with former New York City Police Commissioner Bernie |
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