Trump Asks Judge to Terminate Gag Order in Hush Money Case

Anderson Cooper 360

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🗓️ 5 June 2024

⏱️ 45 minutes

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The former president's legal team asked Judge Juan Merchan in the criminal hush money trial case to lift the gag order, now that a jury has found him guilty on all 34 felony counts of falsifying business records, and the trial is over. When asked about the status of the gag order, a court spokesman said, “the order is part of the court record that has been made publicly available and it speaks for itself.” Former federal prosecutor Jeffrey Toobin, and retired New York judge Jill Konviser - a long-time friend of the trial judge in the case - tell Anderson whether they think this is a reasonable request, and what the judge could decide to do. Plus, President Biden issued sweeping executive action Tuesday that will allow the administration to ban asylum seekers who cross the US-Mexico border illegally. CNN's David Culver is at a border crossing in San Diego with the story of one man who has made patrolling the border a personal mission. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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0:00.0	Tonight on
0:03.3	three-60 breaking news the former president wants his New York gag order
0:06.6	lifted the latest on why and what impact greater freedom to speak out could have on the
0:11.0	sentence he receives.
0:12.6	Also, tonight Attorney General Garland
0:14.2	under oath facing Republican allegations
0:16.2	of weaponizing the justice system
0:18.4	how those inflammatory claims stand up
0:20.4	against the actual facts.
0:22.2	And as the president takes executive action on undocumented migrants,
0:26.1	a story you'll only see here, how one man has taken the issue into his own hands
0:30.7	to what he encounters in his nights on the border.
0:33.6	Good evening, thanks for joining us.
0:34.9	We begin with breaking news, a request late today
0:37.1	from the former president's legal team
0:39.0	to lift the gag order now that a jury
0:41.0	has found him guilty in all 34 felony counts of falsifying business
0:44.9	records to keep word of its hush money payment to Stormy Daniels from reaching
0:48.8	voters in the 2016 election.
0:51.1	As you know, gag order or not, he's already said plenty about the judge, the judge's daughter,
0:55.5	and witnesses in the case.
0:56.9	Now his lawyers are seeking free reign.
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