Good morning to you. It is Saturday, September the 16th. I'm Ali Velshi. There has been a flurry of activity this week in the former President Donald Trump's multiple criminal cases.

But we begin this morning with the latest in the motion unsealed in relation to special

counsel Jack Smith's federal election interference case. We learned last night that Smith is seeking

a narrowly tailored gag order against the former president to prevent him from continuing

to make statements targeted at and about potential witnesses in the case.

In his filing, prosecutors argued that those kinds of statements, quote,

present a serious and substantial danger of materially prejudicing this case.

The motion continues, quote, the government's proposed order specifies that such statements would include, A, statements

regarding the identity, testimony, or credibility of prospective witnesses, and B, statements about

any party, witnesses, attorney, court personnel, or potential jurors that are disparaging and

inflammatory or intimidating, end quote.

It's no secret that long before Donald Trump entered politics and even long before the

invention of Twitter, he has abused various forms of media to attack celebrities, politicians,

and others with whom he disagrees or he thinks have scorned him. That practice

persisted through his presidency as he used social media and other platforms to ridicule members

of his own cabinet among many, many others. And that behavior has continued over the past few

months as his criminal indictments piled up across four different jurisdictions around

the country. He's made numerous disparaging comments about the prosecutors who brought the cases

against him, the judges who were randomly assigned to those cases, as well as people who it is

anticipated could be potential witnesses. And about a month ago, just a few days after he was

criminally indicted for a fourth time, Trump posted a vague but alarming threat in all caps on

his social media platform, truth social, which read, quote, if you go after me, I'm coming after you.

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