proves just how much donald trump flies better than donald trump, and he did that again today. and this time, he proved that his lawyers are liars, too. donald trump has claimed repeatedly that the manhattan criminal trial that he must now attend has kept him from campaigning for president. his lawyers have falsely represented the same thing, publicly. judge merchan said, at the outset , there would be no wednesday session in the criminal trial of donald trump so donald trump knew all along there would be no session today and today, when donald trump had no obligation in court anywhere in the country, donald trump did absolutely nothing . the crucial state of pennsylvania is an hour away from donald trump's manhattan apartment, at trump motorcade speed. president trump, president biden was campaigning, once again today in pennsylvania but donald trump did nothing. nothing. no campaigning at all, i need to be donald trump spent the day napping in a more comfortable chair in the courtroom chair that he has reportedly managed to doze off in this week. donald trump's criminal defen

you have donald trump, the defendant, and you also have donald trump, the candidate. he's testifying, everyone wants to know is donald trump going to take the stand, that is him taking the stand. but it's also him campaigning because he said i should be out campaigning. >> i should be in georgia. >> he's talking about the specific states where he thinks he could turn it, states that joe biden won narrowly, very narrowly. >> right. he knows i'm going to be in a courtroom for six weeks, and maybe if i can hop on a jet and campaign on the weekends, i'll be okay. but this is his opportunity to speak to the electorate because he can't be out there doing rallies. we all know how much he enjoys these rallies, hundreds and hundreds of thousands of people. these stops outside court are his opportunity to update people he believes are listening and interested, to try to continue to campaign even as he's stuck in a courtroom having to fight for his freedom. >> david henderson, let me get your take to what we've heard from donald trump and how it plays into all of this. >> i find

donald trump was alone in a hotel room with stormy daniels while donald trump's wife was e home withis four month old son at the time. the only people who can testify about what happened in that room are stormy daniels and donald trump, not donald trump's defense lawyer. donald trump is not going to testifying. there will never be a moment when donald trump sits on that witness stand and says i did not have with stormy daniels. today, donald trump's criminal defense lawyer did it for him. mr. blanche try to get away with testifying for donald trump in his opening statement by saying stormy daniels description of her sexual encounter with donald trump is false. according to stormy daniels, who has spoken about it ha publicly many times, it was a sexual encounter that did not last long and that in the pre- and post-sexual chatter, donald trump, among other things, compared stormy daniels to his oldest daughter. stormy daniels has given us my plenty of detail about. the essence of the trump defense is that the $420,000.00 that was paid to michael cohen was paid for legal services having

donald trump here heard the words of david pecker testify, number one, that donald trump sat in a meeting in august 2015 with him at trump tower and told him he was pleased about this scheme to catch and kill stories, salacious story, and plant negative stories about rival candidates. we also had david pecker testify in front of donald trump today that trump picked up the phone to call him about the karen mcdougle story. karen mcdougle alleged a ten month affair with him. and what you get from david pecker's testimony in the middle of this karen mcdougle story here is the extent to which pecker was intimately involved with not only trump, but also michael cohen. saying and testifying today that he would have multiple conversations with him a week. sometimes when things were intense like around the mcdougle story, daily. i want to let everybody look at a part of the exchange that our team inside was able to transcribe where david pecker talked about encrypted messages sent back and forth between him and michael cohn which would suggest that perhaps not all the evidence that could be out th

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and look for donald trump. he feels he is being restricted in what he can do and base off this gag order and the fact he has found to have violated it with social media posts, he is being restricted from attacking witnesses that are crucial to this or questioning the jury and specific jurors' motives by being among those that are impanelled. so for him, he needs allies from the outside and while we have seen up on capitol hill, some people like marjorie taylor greene or matt gaetz come to his defense. for him, donald trump likes to see people defending him. that's where he was talking about last week, thousands were out here wanting to protest but couldn't get near the courthouse. that's just not fact. donald trump, by airing that out, he is telling the world he wished he had seen thousands of people coming out to defend him, protesting outside of this courthouse despite that not being a reality. now being able to see his campaign team by his side, at least he knows there are people at least visually defending

donald trump was paying legal fees. the prosecution says they will present evidence that trump and american media paid for all these people to be silent until the election was over. then, once the election was over, they released these people from these agreements to be silent. once the election happened, they did not care. at that point, mission accomplished. the mission was to influence the election. once the election was done, there is no need for these agreements. the mission was the election. the mission was not to protect his brand. not to save his family embarrassment. it was to keep these people silent, to pay them to be silent specifically, and only, in order to win the election full stop. prosecution calls this a criminal scheme to corrupt the 2016 presidential election, covered up by lying in these business --. logically, releasing people from the agreements once the election was over, that would seem to be the crux of the case if the prosecution can prove it . legally, we will see. >> here we arrive at the d

and that is exactly what donald trump does not want. >> if donald trump's not elected again, does thistrial just go forward as usual unless president biden, if he's reelected pardons him? >> so leaving the pardon aside, this case could go forward under a second term, and the issue is what exactly the court's going to say about immunity. i agree with the point ken dilanian said, which is there are not five justices who say this case is over. they're not saying that for unofficial private acts that there's going to be presidential immunity. the issue is what is the definition of private versus official, and that's why this -- the argument was somewhat hard to follow because it really got into the weeds about what if you have somebody doing something that seems like it's part of their official acts but their motive or their intent is impure. >> so differentiating private from public acts can get very complicated. >> exactly. and that's why, just to be clear, what michael dreeben was arguing was twofold. he was saying there should not be criminal immunity for official acts except for a ver

donald trump in the election, especially now that donald trump is announcing that abortion, for him,s just a political calculation. but he is wrong to believe that he can teach artist abortion opponents, who believe that all abortion is murder, that abortion is really just a political issue. that the republican position on abortion should just be a political calculation. it should not be driven by factors like the rights of women, medical science or morality, just politics. that is now the official trump position on abortion rights, just a political calculation. no principles involved. the biden/harris campaign posted this video today about amanda and josh, a texas couple who attended this year's state of the union address by president biden, after what they endured in texas, thanks to donald trump. >> this is one of our little boxes. this is just filled with some of the things that we started gathering for her while i was pregnant. >> yep. >> hears her little baby book. this is the outfit that she was going to maybe where home -- where home from the hospital. this is the blanket tha

yes, he is sucking up to donald trump that is diapered that donald trump there is no job for stephenhave our three final candidates and we would like to try one worst of the week. who are you going to go with? between tom cotton, kari lake and stephen miller? >> reporter: just because of the power position that he knows what he is doing, tom cotton. >> what about you? >> i agree. the other two are but tom cotton does not want anyone to do that safely. that is dangerous for senators to say. >> what does it say that republican party that there variation that we are seeing tonight ? between stephen miller and tom cotton and kari lake, each of them worse in their own way. some more dangerous than others. the fact that these three individuals basically embody what the modern-day republican party has become. >> it is like the russian nesting dolls. when you take them out and one is still there but what is worse than the other? >> what is it called? >> i don't know the word. you take it out and one is worse than the other. kari lake, tom cotton, stephen miller. looking is in there. >> linds

donald jailhouse trump. host: you are in new york, only a resident of manhattan would serve on this trial. but those who go for jury selection today will get this question from the judge. can you serve and be fair and impartial? how would you enter that question if you were in that courtroom today? do you think you could serve on the jury in this trial and be fair and impartial? >> my career and my work background actually makes me a disciplined and intellectually honest person. i've been in worse situations regarding insurance legal matters ride dealing with all kinds of people and you have to be straight right down the middle, doesn't make a difference who it is, and i could serve on that jury and be completely independent and open-minded to wherever the facts may lead, yes. host: this is eric out of maryland, good morning. caller: good morning, america. the question that we have today is the question that every american, everybody in the world today should the asking, is the president or the president of

donald trump also said this. in his rebuke of lindsey graham today, many good republicans lost elections because of this issue and people like lindsey graham that are unrelenting, are handing democrats their dream of the house, senate, and perhaps even the presidency. donald trump is right, of course , that the repeal of roe versus wade is one of the issues that will defeat donald trump in the election, especially now that donald trump is announcing that abortion for him is just a political calculation. but, he is wrong to believe that he can teach ardent abortion opponents who believe that all abortion is murder that abortion is really just a political issue, that the republican position on abortion should just be a political calculation. it should not be driven by factors like the rights of women, medical science, or morality, just politics. that is now the official trunk position on abortion rights, just a political calculation. no principle is involved. the biden-harris campaign posted this video today about

donald jailhouse trump.ost: you are in new york, only a resident of manhattan would serve on this trial. but those who go for jury selection today will get this question from the judge. can you serve and be fair and impartial? how would you enter that question if you were in that courtroom today? do you think you could serve on the jury in this trial and be fair and impartial? >> my career and my work background actually makes me a disciplined and intellectually honest person. i've been in worse situations regarding insurance legal matters ride dealing with all kinds of people and you have to be straight right down the middle, doesn't make a difference who it is, and i could serve on that jury and be completely independent and open-minded to wherever the facts may lead, yes. host: this is eric out of maryland, good morning. caller: good morning, america. the question that we have today is the question that every american, everybody in the world today should the asking, is the president or the president of th

donald trump says yes. you disrupt the proceedings, we can proceed with the trial in your absence, do you understand. donald trump says i do. if you do not show up, there will be an arrest, merchan says, underscoring donald trump doesn't have a choice here. he's got to show up unless the court bars him from showing up. while this process, this jury selection process we're waiting for, is going, excuse me, it can stretch for a number of weeks. the former president is also fund raising off the criminal charges. he claims he's being politically persecuted as he try to win back the presidency. more than two-thirds of registered voters said the hush money charges facing donald trump are quote somewhat serious according to a reuters poll. around a third say the charges lacked seriousness. joining me now, former chief of staff to vice president mike pence. mark short. really good to have you. so donald trump wants to use these trials because he's got to be there any way. you can see him talking to the assembled ca

donald trump us lawyers had promised, tell us who the witnesses and we won't even tell donald trump,it. so that was an interesting point that came up, again the unprecedented nature of this trial is certainly testing the legal system. with all of these delays, it would be difficult to see us getting to the first witness, we will have to see how that plays out. larger picture, we have all come to see that with this case, we have to be prepared for the unexpected. donald trump us lawyers would certainly welcome any delays, they had already complained thatjury selection went to quickly for their liking, a key tactic they have used throughout is trying to delay this process. throughout is trying to delay this rocess. �* . . ~' throughout is trying to delay this rocess. 1, . ~ , ., throughout is trying to delay this rocess. , ., , process. back with you shortly, thank you- _ around the world and across the uk, this is bbc news.

the other one was if we go back to the civil fraud trial, and donald trump would recall donald trumped of judge engoron. after he repeatedly attacked the law clerk to the judge, he was find $10,000 and held in contempt for violating that gag order. donald trump has a history predating this trial that he's willing to attack, and as you read from the social media post, he clearly has not been punished for violating the gag order yet, and even during the recess, he got on his phone and continued to attack the individual that could put him in jail if he is to continue to violating that gag order. >> we are not yet seeking incarceration -- >> he says this as a win-win, and this is straight from trump's playbook, and he's got -- this is really one of his main things is to attack, attack, attack, and he says it as a win-win. either he goes too far and they do stick him in detention for a night or whatever, and then he really gets to play up the martyr thing, and this is how he's raising money for his legal defenses, he's going to his supporters and passing the hat and saying, oh, whoa is me

and taken a pipe to donald trump and donald trump is not permitted to punch back at michael cohen. i think that's it really is the nub of the issue here and it's rubbing trump, but he's got a gag order, right, david? i mean, i i'm not arguing that life is tough people talk about joel, the time when you're the former president that is, one. >> your name is donald trump. here's my question. day because you know, well, do you think he is trying to bait the judge? is he trying to dare the judge into doing something like putting them in a holding cell or something like that because he thinks it'll be politically advantageous. >> now, i'm not sure. i'll jump what's up being a holding cell for? 30 seconds. i'm not sure. you see the reports from folks inside the courtroom. donald trump doesn't do well, sitting still for hours on end, right? so i'm not sure he wants to be wants to go into any any type of holding so i just think he's just putting back in a matter of fairness and in some point, the judge is you we're seeing here in real full-time. the judge is pushing back on him and saying,

they acted to protect donald trump. act necessarily at donald trump's direction in the sense of, he instructed these people to do these things. those are the two things you do if you are his defense attorneys as far as how you deal with keith davidson. >> don't go anywhere. we will come back to you. >>> we want to get to the pro-palestinian protesters at columbia who broke into a couple puss building overnight. they smashed windows and barricaded doors. they will not leave hamilton hall until their demands are met. at ucla, police in tactical gear intervenes as protesters clashed with pro-israel demonstrators a. the university of texas, austin, troopers in riot gear detained some students. others surrounded the police who say they used pepper spray to get them to disperse. joining me from columbia in new york city is antonia hylton. they are in hamilton hall. it has a history of being occupied goes back 100 years. what are they demanding? what is columbia university saying? >> reporter: well, the dozens of students who

>> donald trump's immunity? the immunity he says, but absolute immunity that he says he should now before the supreme court exactly. do americans believed that he should have criminal immunity? the vast majority, 56% say no, just 28% say yes. so if the supreme court decides that he should have absolute immunity, that is something that applies a very much in the face of public opinion of vast majority say he should not have done immunity. and i will note that's important because the federal january 6 charges the vast majority of the clear majority of americans say that those charges are very serious. k. all right, thanks for acumen track of it all here. >> i really appreciate it, john. >> well, this now is so much trump national security adviser, former us ambassador to the un, john on bolton and i should say a long time, big time lawyer as well. and it's in that capacity, ambassador bolton, i want to ask you to what extent do donald trump's actions surrounding january 6 fall within the boundaries of official act

the breaking news is donald trump has been gagged again. after a flurry of new filings at the end of the day from alvin bragg asking judge merchan to expand the gag order and donald trump defense lawyers filing their objection to expanding the gag order laming that donald trump did nothing wrong this weekend and attacking judge merchan's daughter. he granted the request to expand the gag order which now forbids donald trump from commenting on the judges family or the district attorney's family. their families were not previously covered by the gag order. the judge also warned donald trump, as requested by the district attorney, that if he continues to disrupt the case, donald trump will lose his legal right as a defendant to even know the names of his jurors in the case. the first line of alvin bragg's filing in the case tonight says, quote, defendants dangerous, violent and rhetoric fundamentally threatens the integrity of these proceedings and is intended to intimidate witnesses and drop participants alike, including this court. the distr

donald trump is not look presidential.n the hallway as he rails against the machine and says his constitutional rights are being trampled on and saying he can't speak, even though there is a camera outside, he looked diminished. the grandeur, the smoke and mirror that has that donald trump has so adeptly i think marketed himself as, you know, this larger than life personality, he came out as a pro wrestler in 2016 at the rnc convention, now he's more like the wizard of oz, the wizard, the curtain has been pulled down and the wizard is exposed and the wizard is just a man. a man in a courtroom. >> brendan, meanwhile, in pennsylvania, over 150,000 registered republicans voted for nikki haley in that state's primary this week. do you see anything in that? >> yeah, i think you can draw a direct line from that to what is going on here. he's reminding everybody what they don't like about him. we are in an era of significant negative partisanship and we know that both of these candidates have a lot of people who are on -- aren't

to broadcast to the country this is what donald trump has wrought and donald trump has been tied in knots on this issue. let's send this back to states. joe biden goes to florida, here's what happens when you send it back to the states. they're going to hammer this point all the way through november. >> totally. let me just add to what maura said, you know, this is not something that's going to go away not just because joe biden will go to florida or kamala harris will go to arizona hey look what's happening in your states. because there's going to be actual important news breaks on this issue. in arizona for instance, the legislation will likely consider a bill to overturn that. today at the supreme court the first hearing for a challenge of a law in idaho that prohibits emergency abortion -- abortions in emergency medical situations that decision will likely be held before the election, there's a number of other decisions and a number of other initiatives that will take place before november, not to mention the ballot initiatives that will take place on election day, this isn't like one

he loves donald trump that much?e president of the united states. >> trump sells papers. i mean, this is really -- >> an extraordinary amount. >> so the defense counsel today, one of the stranger things that he said in his opening argument today was watch david pecker's testimony very carefully. david pecker is not his witness. he said david pecker may not say what these prosecutors are telling you he's going to say. because david pecker, he's implying, is going to testify likely tomorrow, you know, maybe later in the week, david pecker is likely going to testify that the reason he was motivated to do this is because he wanted to keep donald trump happy, wanted to keep donald trump happy because he wanted to keep donald trump doing things with their papers and publics because he sold and was good for them. the problem is that's okay if the way you're trying to keep donald trump happy is just doing the normal checkbook journalism you do. if the way you're trying to keep him happy is by doing things to affect the campa

stormy daniels, quashed donald trump. the breaking defendant trump news of the night is that stormy daniels has humiliated donald trump, once again come and while she was at it she humiliated his terminal defense lawyers. tonight, granted the motion to quash the subpoena from donald trump demanding a vast range of information about the making of a documentary film titled "stormy." the judge denied the motion saying this request is overbroad, six general discovery, and is not limited to the subject matter of this case. judge merchan already quashed a subpoena for essentially the same material from nbc universal the producer of the documentary, the ruling by judge merchan came at the end of the day that began with the hearing about the district attorney's claim that donald trump has violated a gag order that inhibits him from among other things, saying anything about jurors in the case. prosecutor, christopher conroy, told the judge about a social media post that we reported as breaking news on this program last week. and t

some of the tees, donald trump, it's a big deal. for the judge to put him in trump -- in jail for a few days, he comes to the edge, tiptoes over it, the main show is the evidence presented in trial and i think that it's a difficult thing to be a juror in this case. if donald trump steps over the line with respect to jurors, which i don't think you will do, he is not that . he has a conflagration, this parrying, making fun of people around the judges circle or the court, which he is allowed to do. i think he can get away with that. >> thank you for joining us. they will be back tomorrow. i really appreciate your insight. >>> coming up, what was it like in the courtroom in downtown manhattan today? norm eisen was there, he has investigated donald trump in the past and wrote the book on this criminal case. he joins me in just 60 seconds. call leaffilter today. and never clean out clogged gutters again. leaffilter's technology keeps debris out of your gutters for good. guaranteed. call 833.leaf.filter today, or visit leaffilter.com. my

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number three, he was a friend of donald trump's.s testimony may be more credible for that reason. he may be testifying about something we're not anticipating, and it might be about a direct conversation with donald trump, because, remember, that there were these entries in business records can be shown from the records with the state, with the people need to show is donald trump's involvement and his intent. someone like david pecker may have a lot of information about that. and, finally, the reason that david pecker may be the most important witness is that he's first. he's the first one out of the gate, which means the prosecution is comfortable with him, they trust him, and they want to create an impression, a first impression on this jury. who did they call? who did they choose out of their stable? it wasn't michael cohen. it wasn't stormy daniels. it was david pecker. there must be a reason for that. they have faith in him. we'll see if he delivers today. >> he's also somebody notably that trump hasn't been attacking on social

with donald trump.ith donald trump but they're scared of the consequences because it's well known, he will threaten people all the time who will say, you know, basically he'll say look, if you ever turn against me, i will destroy you. it's a common thing he says to people, it's a well known thing. i think there's a lot of people who would break with him but are scared to do so. pecker and hicks have been folks who have been managed to carefully walk the tight rope between telling the truth in these cases and getting to a place where donald trump actually turns his bazooka on them. and i do think, though, that being in that position does give them credibility in front of the jury. >> we have heard trump referred to repeatedly as the boss by david pecker in some of the transcripts we have seen. and cohen saying the boss will handle this or the boss will take care of this. how does that play into this trial? the people are calling rhona graff. >> that's a good one. >> what is that reaction for? >> so for f

and i think whether you are close to donald trump or you worked for donald trump, we all owe the american people the truth about donald trump. we owe them the opportunity to know who he actually is and it's not easy. i was very loyal to donald trump when i worked for him and it took me a long time to make that break der lot of consequences you have to weigh when you make the break with trump world but what i fear more is the deceit that donald trump will continue to perpetuate if more people don't stick up for the truth it must feel really surreal. just, i mean, you worked with mark meadows on the hill. i remember when i was covering the white house and you worked there you are kind of everywhere that he went, you were on air force one, you were in his office, you worked right outside of it it must know what really surreal to see him get indicted a second time. it's really sad i was really close with mark. i really believed in mark as a principle that's why i chose to take drop with the chief of staff so it's difficult to see him in this position. but i think on the greater scale to free

prosecute erma thank you coangelo, this case is about criminal conspiracy, donald trump to -- donaldw york business records over and over and over again. what matthew kol anglo, the prosecutor, is presenting to this jury is a case that begins in the summer of 2015 when he lays out that david pecker was invited to trump tower along with michael cohen. at that meeting, those three men formed a conspiracy. prosecutor lays out that michael cohen ultimately paid $130,000 to stnls to silence her and make sure the public did not learn about the sexual encounter. he made the payment at the direction of the defendant, donald trump who paid him back through a series of checks and reimbursement in 2017. so this for the first time inside of this courtroom, the words have been spoken to the jury that donald trump, the defendant, had ordered for $130,000, payment to be made to stormy daniels. the prosecution from district attorney alvin bag's office is beginning to make the case of a conspiracy all at the direction of the then candidate for president of the united states in 2015, one that would go

so, there is donald trump. summoning trump supporters in idaho to go to the courthouse in boise and stage a big protest for him. or in north dakota or utah or alabama or texas or somewhere there is a vast majority of voters for donald trump. any courthouse in america, florida, anywhere. and no one, no one anywhere in the country showed up at any courthouse to protest the criminal prosecution of donald trump. 74million trump voters said absolutely no. we will not protest donald trump's criminal prosecution. we do not care. they are not the only people who don't care. donald trump is the only criminal defendant i have ever seen who cannot round up a single family member to sit in the front row of the courtroom in support of criminal defendant donald trump. his third and current wife isn't there. neither of his daughters are there. none of his sons are there. not a single personal friend has shown up as a show of support for donald trump. not one. serial killer and sometimes cannibal jeffrey dahmer had his family

>> donald trump, take the stand. i will volunteer to do cross examination of former president donald trump. he thinks he will give a speech. the prosecutors will cut him to stress. and to shreds. they are going to make the judge directed donald trump to answer the questions. it is going to be effective cross-examination. we are going to find out monday. the judge said what they are actually allowed to ask. but his statement outside of the courtroom. the idea that this was all legal fees. it is going to be used against him. so him going is on the stand. he could give a speech like his supporters. but it will hurt him so badly. so please, donald trump. >> does he not know that the commentary makes outside of the courtroom can actually be recorded. played back and played to him. >> is not saying anything for legal benefit. we all know. how many people have been in jail. he thinks he will never be held accountable. this is not your thing is to play to his base. play to the public to win the election. that is all he cares

his trash is donald trump because he said donald trump is threatening violence against this clown judgerump did not threaten violence against anybody. now chuck schumer did he threaten to supreme court justices. he said there's going to be a whirlwind and you are going to pay a price. i do not remember this judge leaving the bench, calling cnn, showing up in a word about violence as a result of that. do not member this judge waring about violence against supreme court justices after the dobbs decisions wit when their homes e being threatened and not a single one of them was arrested under federal law. what do you make of the judiciary today? what's what they decide it is it what is legal or illegal looking at the law they decided what is good and who is good and who gets to benefit. in this particular case and every scenario they will bend and contort to go after the primary threat not just political opponent but primary opponent to everything they cling to which is power and control the man willing to expose the underbelly of who they are and what they represent the man willing to call

donald trump repeats that.e idea that todd blanche will be like, president trump earned the moniker president. he is a good guy. he was shocked that michael cohen is engaged in criminality. the one thing that will be clear to this jury is that this was an effort with a media outlet to create a false picture of him and a false picture of his adversaries. david unrelated to michael cohen will give that testimony. >> there is a hearing before david goes back on the stamford the attacks on michael cohen has been ceaseless. i wonder if those too could backfire. do we have the tape from the last hour of michael cohen and donald trump figure out how to pay david? they were friends until they weren't and intelthree goes to jail. how do you track with a jury a rupture in a relationship in a way that keeps the facts front and center? will that be one of the prosecution's missions tumor >> reporter: when you put a cooperator on, one of the key things you say at closing, you will hear best. you do not like michael cohen. y

but when we're talking about what donald trump said in the public versus what donald trump and testimony that david pecker is providing, i went back to my notes from march 25th, 2016, the day that the multiple affairs that ted cruz this had a were unsubstantiated but just -- >> they were five. >> it was damning. >> it said five affairs. scandal. like we found out yesterday there were five. and it is insane. >> and it is what everybody was talking about and ted cruz, if i may, he quickly responded i was in oshkosh wisconsin on the trial and he said they are complete lies. donald trump may be a rat but i have no desire to cop you'll ate with him. but donald trump on the other hand, this is the beginning of the his entertainment. i have no idea about who whether the cover story is true or not but i have absolutely nothing to do with it. did not know about it and have not as yet read it. i have nothing -- >> it came from his office. >> likewise, i have nothing to do with "the national enquirer" and i do not surround myself with hacks and henchmen and pretend. >> he said he did not want to re

trump made a mockery of an insurrection, donald trump made a mockery of the molar investigation, donald trump made a mockery of our election, donald trump has made a mockery of every institution he's touched or turned and talked about. he has now made a mockery of the rule of law, and i wonder what you think the rule of law and those who care about it do in response? >> you know, there actually is an answer to this problem. there is a solution that none of the institutions of government, none of the judges, none of the prosecutors, have thus far been willing to do. in 30 years, every single time i had a grand jury return felony charges against a defendant, i had a decision to make. i had to decide whether to file a motion for pretrial detention. the only factors that entered into that decision were, is there clear and convincing evidence that the defendant is a danger to the community, or even one person in the community? if the answer to that question was yes, i was obliged to file a motion for pretrial. i was obliged to do it to protect the victim, i was obliged to do it to protect th

donald trump did not attack the judges spouse. donald trump did not attack the judges staff. in fact, donald trump praised the judge today, who denied his motion to dismiss charges. donald trump posted on social media that special counsel jack smith should be sanctioned, or censured, for the way he is attacking a highly respected judge, aileen canon. donald trump knows that judge cannon was, in effect, forced by jack smith who cornered her legally in a filing on tuesday, that in effect forced her to deny donald trump's months old motion to dismiss the case on the grounds that the presidential records act allows donald trump to do whatever he wants with classified documents that the fbi found in donald trump's position after serving a search warrant at his florida residents. judge cannon wrote today the presidential records act does not provide a pretrial basis to dismiss. the keyword, of course, is pretrial. donald trump knows that judge cannon has reserved the right to dismiss the case on that same basis later in the proceedings. four to issue a jury instruction in the case.

why can't donald trump go after cohen when cohen is still allowed to go after donald trump?because donald trump is the one with the gag order and michael cohen doesn't have a gag order. >> why would it include cohen? the trump team would argue he's going on television, saying whatever he wants. >> it's all witnesses. cohen is shameless. he's not going to be intimidated. he wants to testify. but there may be other witnesses who say oh, no, look what he's doing to cohen. i'm up next, he's going to go it to me. it's about witnesses and cohen just happens to be one. >> it's too hard to make a carve out. thank you very much. i know you're sticking around in case we have anything. lisa rubin, thank you as well. >>> what can a lawyer realistly advise a client like trump and what do they do when he lashes out perhaps in front of a jury? plus, what is happening on college campuses across the country as pro palestinian protestors try to essentially shutdown the schools. to essent shutdown the schools nothing dims my light like a migraine. with nurtec odt, i found relief. the only migr

should donald trump? except whatever verdict the jury renders in this case well, my hope is that all americans can trust or judicial system, and that's really what this case we'll prove out. >> i think it's a little ridiculous that they've waited years to bring these types of charges against donald trump they wanted to make these kinds of charges against him. they should have done it two years ago when this happened to do it conveniently during a presidential election when he's campaigning to return to the white house, i think proves that this is all politically motivated. it's the way that democrats i started fighting these days is using the judicial system and activist judges to do so. my hope is that the people and the jury will do what is right and hear the evidence and see clearly that this is an unprecedented trial, but it's unprecedented in how ridiculous it is. >> well, this these allegations happened when he was president. that is in part for the prosecutors. why they say that he excuse me. the a

that's part of donald trump. donald trump i have had experiences with is a much different human being. why is it necessary, at case like this, it's about documents, to make him seem i guess more likable. >> i think it's exactly what you said, there has to be a counter narrative. here he did it. right? he falsified, directed the falsification of documents. they're going to try to paint a broader picture, paint a picture of a businessman, somebody going about his business with people who like him, who respect him. she worked for him for apparently 34 years. she must have thought he was a good boss. >> it important for the jury to sympathize with him, and if so, is it kind of risky for the prosecution to call her as a witness if she's only authenticating things? >> not at all. they need to call her. she is his iphone for all purposes when it comes to things like contacts and messaging and administrative items like that. they need to call her, they need to authenticate things. they asked about specific days. we'll se

we had a visual of donald trump.orning he was quite engaged with his lawyers, passing notes back and forth, whispering, sort of the things you would imagine, and then around noon, it looked like he was nodding off. not sure, but you're watching, and all of a sudden his head went down and snapped back up. that was quite a moment. >> live tv is i don't always nod off, because i have a small child at home. i'm sympathetic to the snoozing. >> it is hot in there. >> when joe biden blinks too long, it's a major issue. that he nodded off in his own criminal trial is an interesting contrast to what we'll hear from him later. >> they're just finishing up jury selection. i think we got a real insight into why this takes so long. why is jury selection going to take two weeks, at least. today, the whole morning was consumed with procedure motions, some of the ones you mentioned at the top, whether or not one of them is the "national enquirer" if we should have a broad of view of the "national enquirer." there's a reeling that me

she has shown extraordinary deference to donald trump from day one. >> and even donald trump doesn't allege. when we talk about the presidential records act, donald trump has never flatly said i designated these records as personal. i could have. and by taking them, that and in after of itself was a designation. but even his lawyers don't say there was a designation by him of all of these classified materials as personal to him. the fact she would then have jury instructions on that and let that issue go to a jury without either being right on the law or having any such evidence in front of her is really mind boggling. >> let's move onto the hush money trial. because judge mershan extended the gag order yesterday. and today, donald trump is reposting articles attacking his daughter again. how is this not a violation of the gag order? i would think this person would be in serious trouble. >> if it is not a violation, it is as close as you can goat to being a violation. he is not the one saying these negative things about the daughter or the wife. he reposted. there is a photo of his d

david pecker will ride in national enquirer positive stories about donald trump and in return donald trump, especially during the apprentice years would give stories about either himself or apprentice candidates it was manna from heaven. news gold for david pecker because that was his stock in trade. they were trying to portray that this was just more of that and in the opening statements, donald trump's lawyers actually said that they tried to -- trying to influence -- is democracy. that's what people try and do. what was different about this and what the government lawyers were showing is that during the election, the arrangements that were reach and karen google who is the playmate that donald trump had a relationship with, nine months or a year, these payments that went to karen make google and others were larger than usual. the national enquirer national -- have a limit of $10,000. these went well over that. in the case of karen mcdougal, they had a contract with her and that was according to david pecker solely to keep her story off the market but she did in signing that get ot

donald trump is the architect. if donald trump gets the chance, he will sign a national abortion ban. here's what a second trump term looks like. more bans, more suffering, less freedom. there of course you have the former president distancing himself for the ruling, and saying he's not going to sign an abortion ban. >> ashley parker, here's the thing, there is all of this talk about how donald trump has moved away from the pro choice movement or moved to a position where the pro life movement isn't comfortable being. he's making them more moderate. is that going to be enough? when he takes organizations along with him who say that what he's remarking on, all states rights really not about abortion, does that help insulate him among the swing republican voters, the fence voters who he needs to win over in november? ashley. >> i think it's important to say when he put out that statement on state's rights, there was a lot of lobbying in his world that he should, for any number of things, right, that he should support

the inside story of how donald trump lost.ns us, a veteran republican strategist who is now at the lincoln project. michael, can we start with this article? you took my doors off. you have attended these rallies, met his supporters, this is different than the trump rallies of 2016. what do we need to know about trump and this new strain of christianity and trumpism? >> yeah, thanks. i think they're sort of a bigger picture here and a more narrow one. when it comes to trumps rallies, what is different here is over the past year or so, he is been refining the end of these rallies. we've all known for a long time, as a kind of volatile off script kind of rock concert show, and now, there's a very big in the last 10 or 15 minutes, there's a very somber, ambient music that fills the event. and trump talks in a kind of whispering voice and a tightly scripted kind of creed of the political movement that he is leading upon conservatives. and his followers here have become effectively his congregation. so they will bow their heads, or

>> i am donald trump is not trying to change who donald trump is. we all know who donald trump is. so that's already baked into this conversation. so if he was introducing himself to the american public, yes, i could agree with you. he's not he's known he's wrong quantity. >> can i ask what those abstract yeah you that question? >> i just the backdrop that's fine. >> but a backdrop for his campaign that is all about reinforcing the worst pieces of his personality that's where i don't that's where i don't want i might question that as a political winter question to the whole trial is about stories that he wanted to cover up from was it was going to write every day or every campaign has stories that whether it's you really would do damage or not do damage, have stories that they tried to cover up as reported? porter's, you all have been received calls from campaign officials who say, you know what, i think you've got the facts wrong here. yeah. well, i can really john john edwards exactly it worked out great for the man pain. >> let's look at his hair before and after but i guess all

so is this bad for donald trump? yeah. i mean, what we're seeing is that it's up to -- when you talk about the several states, any county prosecutor could decide, you know what? this affected our state, our county. the attorneys general can do the same thing. you know, going back to why so long, what was the delay all about, i totally agree with what lisa said. i'd like to add to it. i mean, it is no surprise that prosecutors were probably wait ing around to see who was going to be the first to do it because it is scary. it is scary to indict a former president of the united states because he has and will fight like heck at every level. and losing a case, maybe one of the first cases against a former president, would be a crushing defeat. so, in my view, from a social perspective, it was no surprise that in just the last year, once the first indictment came down, everyone else felt much more emboldened to start indicting the president. listen, i don't blame them. it is a scary prospect with just flaming disaster possibilit

they had a very special relationship with donald trump that they had forged and they wanted to see donald trump elected president and they were acting sort of as an adjunct arm of the campaign. >> that, this has nothing to do with the criminal trial, per se, just as disclosures go, the part about ceding negative stories, like he would just send them stuff. that is shocking and would be in any other media enterprise, and unbelievable scandal and also gives you little sense of how donald trump projects his view of the media. like his view of the media being like the all function like that because that is what the inquirer did for me. >> i think the other thing that sort of was lost until today is what is david p ecker getting out of this? and then complement and praising donald trump, that is what made his testimony so damning. he said he was the top celebrity among inquirer readers, that he was knowledgeable about his business, that he was detail oriented, micro-managerial prayer all the things he said about donald trump that were complement are eventually going to be his dim as tells a st

apologizing to donald trump.er some back and forth about whether this juror should be able to sit as part of the jury, the judge ordered her to be struck. but this is a moment here where donald trump and his presidency and post presidency have drawn strong emotions out of a great number of human beings. those are coming out in realtime. folks are being questioned on the spot in front of donald trump about some of those social media posts that his defense attorneys are rightfully and to their ability to bring up inside of the courtroom. but it's very transparent here that this is a difficult process that's playing out. >> two more jurors have been seated since vaughn has been reporting. i don't know who his sources are, but it sounds like the kind of world view someone like steve bannon might have. the idea that this is a communist-style show trial, this is a sex scandal where he was too sloppy to do the books in a full manner. >> i want to maybe take this to what can happen now to protect the jurors short of this