Jack Smith's team wants names and statements kept secret in Florida trial.

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Afternoon hearing in classified docs case in FLA ended around 3pm. As expected, both sides clashed over unsealing redacted information--Trump wants swath of discovery unsealed, Jack Smith does not--with Judge Cannon pressing both sides for clarity.

Cannon is no nonsense, very low key, only got animated once or twice.

The biggest dispute was over the release of names of witnesses and their statements. Jack Smith's team wants names and statements kept secret--prosecutor David Harbach claimed that witnesses are harassed, intimidated, and threatened "in any case where Donald Trump is a defendant."

Cannon pushed back on that claim, arguing that it would be "unprecedented" to keep names of witnesses and their substantive statements under seal in court motions--particularly names and statements of government officials.

Cannon said she understood the need to protect the safety of witnesses but that it is "not possible to shield everyone from the internet." She had asked for proof of legitimate threats to potential witnesses; Smith's team came back with one example (they also tried to keep under seal) of a potential witness who received social media "threats" after the indictment was announced.

Useful to note Judge Cannon is the only official involved in any of the Trump cases that received death threats legit enough to land one woman in prison:

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