00:00 In the latest development surrounding former US President Donald Trump's legal battles,
00:05 a judge has rejected Trump's request to access records from the congressional investigation
00:10 into the US Capitol attack.
00:13 In a decision on Monday, US District Judge Tanya Chutkin in Washington denied Donald
00:18 Trump's request to obtain records from the Democratic-led House of Representatives probe
00:23 into the January 6 attack.
00:25 The former president argued that these records could be crucial for his defense against charges
00:30 related to election interference.
00:32 However, Judge Chutkin found Trump's justifications lacking.
00:36 Trump had sought to subpoena materials that his legal team claimed were missing from the
00:41 House investigation, including transcripts and video recordings of interviews with law
00:46 enforcement officials.
00:48 The judge ruled that prosecutors had already provided Trump with written transcripts and
00:53 that his attorneys failed to demonstrate how video footage of the same conversations would
00:58 be relevant to his defense.
01:00 Trump has pleaded not guilty to charges of illegally attempting to overturn his defeat
01:05 in the 2020 election.
01:07 This case, led by special counsel Jack Smith, is one of four criminal cases facing the former
01:12 president, who is considered the front-runner for the Republican nomination in 2024.
01:17 Meanwhile, in a separate legal development, special counsel Jack Smith's team has made
01:23 public new information about a January search warrant issued to Twitter, now known as X,
01:28 for information on Trump's account.
01:30 Following a separate court ruling, prosecutors revealed details about the warrant issued
01:34 to Twitter seeking information on all electronic devices that accessed Trump's account between
01:40 October 2020 and January 2021.
01:44 The warrant also aimed to uncover the content of direct messages sent and received from
01:49 the account.
01:50 Trump's Twitter account was suspended after the 2021 Capitol riot by his supporters, but
01:55 the suspension was lifted in November 2022 after the platform was taken over by CEO Elon
02:01 Musk.
02:02 Prosecutors successfully convinced a judge to prevent Twitter from informing Trump about
02:06 the warrant, a move that the social media company opposed.
02:10 In another development, Trump is set to testify for a second time in his ongoing civil fraud
02:15 trial in New York on December 11.
02:18 On Monday, Trump's lawyers announced that he is scheduled to testify for the second
02:22 time in his civil fraud trial in New York.
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