Trump lawyers, DOJ at odds over election case evidence

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🗓️ 8 August 2023

⏱️ 42 minutes

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Special counsel Jack Smith and Trump’s legal team argue over evidence sharing in the election interference case as Judge Chutkan orders a hearing to settle the dispute by Friday. Plus, GOP candidate Ron DeSantis admits Trump lost the 2020 election. And a special election on Tuesday could determine the future of abortion in Ohio. Philip Rucker, Tali Farhadian Weinstein, Kyle Cheney, Greg Bluestein, Dr. Jason John, Mark McKinnon, and Ohio State Rep. Bride Rose Sweeney join.

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0:00.0	Tonight, defendant Donald Trump's push for control, his lawyer's latest moves in the
0:07.4	battle over the special counsel's request for protective order, while Jack Smith fires
0:12.2	back with his own response.
0:14.8	Then Ron DeSantis' about-face on his biggest rivals 2020 election lies, as he attempts
0:21.0	to revamp his 2024 campaign, and a look ahead to tomorrow's critical special election
0:27.5	in Ohio, what it could mean for the state's constitution and the fight for abortion
0:32.4	access.
0:33.4	As the $11 gets underway on this Monday night.
0:37.5	Good evening, once again, I'm Stephanie Rule.
0:43.4	We begin this evening in Washington, D.C., where lawyers for former president Donald J.
0:47.9	Trump have responded to special counsel Jack Smith's request for a protective order in
0:53.2	the 2020 election case.
0:55.4	Trump's team countered with a narrower protective order that would allow him to publicly discuss
1:00.8	some of the evidence collected by the government ahead of the trial.
1:04.8	The special counsel's office came back just hours later, urging Judge Chutkin to forego
1:09.8	an additional hearing and sign off on the government's proposed protective order.
1:14.4	Jack Smith's team said Donald Trump wants to try this case in the media rather than
1:19.3	in the courtroom.
1:20.6	And our friend Glenn Kushner said it best last week, Judge Tanya Chutkin, she doesn't
1:26.8	play.
1:27.8	And we saw that tonight when she wasted no time, responding at 9 p.m. on a Monday night
1:33.5	ordering to see both sides and getting them to agree on a time for hearing on his protective
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