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We'll call it a split decision, folks.

But the first hearing in the criminal case against Donald Trump

for his attempt to overturn the 2020 presidential election got underway Friday in Washington, D.C.

And presiding over the bench was U.S. District Judge Tanya Chutkin, who issued a warning shot to Trump

and his legal team, that the more inflammatory statements he makes connected to the case,

the greater the urgency will be to move the case quickly to trial.

The basis of the Friday hearing was to hear oral arguments relating to special prosecutor

Jack Smith's motion for a protective order, barring Trump from revealing evidence he encounters

in discovery or intimidating or threatening witnesses. While Chutkin agreed with Trump's defense

team on a loose a version of a protective order for evidence in the case, she largely sided with the prosecution on what

sensitive materials should be protected. She rejected prosecutors' broader protective order

proposal that sought to prevent the public release of all evidence that they hand over to

Trump's defense as they prepare for trial.

She instead seemed poised to impose a more limited protective order that would bar the

public release only of materials deemed sensitive, such as grand jury materials.

Judge Chutkin also pushed back against Trump attorney John

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