we've got to get donald trump out of there. donald trump did not go anywhere. he stayed and used his survivability of the access hollywood tape, used the survival as a bludgeon for republican lawmakers after to make them closer to him. they stood by him through thick and thin. during his time in office because they knew that he could survive what appeared to be the unsurvivable. voters agreed with him. it was just locker room talk. they didn't think it was that big of a deal and i wonder, vaughn, now, you've interacted with a lot of voters. i don't know about a general election, but a primary, these voters in the gop primary have stood by so much with donald trump and won't, what will they see this verdict as? a new york city jury coming to this verdict and donald trump maybe going out there and saying listen, clearly, the jury was confused because they said i didn't rape her. >> i think that's the heart of the question here going forward. i was talking to some young republican voters here who were standing by donald trump. i asked them about january 6th and ea

and donald trump still declined.s absolutely safe, when there is no cross examining, standing there, ready to cross examine donald trump under oath, he is free to say all these things. but i hope the american people who still care about equality and fairness, and due process. we'll see that it was an absolute act of cowardice what trump did. when he had a chance to look the jury in the eye, to put his hand on the bible, to testify in an ethical and responsible way, he declined. but what did he do once that case was over? he whined that an unfair trial. and now he says that the absolute protection where no one is pushing back against him, including cnn, he says what he has to say. it's absolutely despicable. >> and, michelle, cnn did ask him why didn't you testify at the trial? and he said, my lawyers told me it will be a waste of time, that it's ridiculous. but cnn did not say, why did you lie last week when you were standing on a golf course in ireland, and telling those reporters, you were going to rush back to new

cnn have many said the name caitlin collins first, before donald trump in, the trump then accepted that name, when he could have rejected that name, and gotten anyone else he wanted at cnn. this is the way all networks do these things. this is not by accident that donald trump found himself on stage with kaitlan collins. i've never seen anyone at cnn do a better job of interviewing donald trump. i have never seen anyone, at any other network, to a better job of interviewing donald trump. i do not think that i could have done a better job of interviewing donald trump, but there are many people who could. many of them do not work in tv news, where the conventional style of tv questioning, absolutely, does not work with donald trump. never has, never will. the one thing that i would not have done is wasted to questions. asked some stupid questions. it took a village. it took a village to, ask questions from the stage last night. a cnn political reporter said that we're told colin's has been steadily prepping since the town hall, which has been in the works for months, was finally confirmed

donald trump has made it clear he never loses. he never loses general elections or primaries, and on the way out the door, he will burn it down. can we afford to move past trump? he is the world's worst loser. margaret: what happens in a general election if it is trump v biden? charlie: then the election becomes a referendum on donald trump. margaret: a referendum on trump? charlie: yes. in normal circumstances, the general election is a referenm on the incumbent president. if it is any other republican, it will be a referendum on joe biden and his record and agenda, but if it is donald trump, it becomes reversed. the election becomes about donald trump, and that will determine what the turnout is, levels of enthusiasm. joe biden does not need to gin up enthusiasm if donald trump is on the ballot. the formula ifts. margaret: in 20 you voted for joe biden. in 20 24, if it is joe biden versus not donald trump, do you know who you would vote for? charlie: i don't know. i'd be pretty certain i would vote for joe biden so in order to ge

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i mean, to be frank, it is not a good situation for donald trump to be in.ill say that when i was here over the last few weeks come outside of the court, speaking to people coming and going, i did run into a few of donald trump's supporters, and, you know, they talked about how his persona of a fighter, someone who is willing to take on big battles appealed to them, and looked, they had already made their decision, to be frank, about this case, before this trial to supporters, and they spoke about how they do subscribe to this notion that this is all a "witchhunt." of course now we have heard from the jury, and they certainly do not think that is the case, so that will be something that donald trump is going to have to contend with now, while he tries to remain in front runner for republicans. and we will have to see how other republicans, who are, quite frankly, afraid of assaulting donald trump's base, how they work around this. christian: let me read to our audience the truth social post donald trump put out an hour ago, waiting for a jury desion on false

jean carroll was donald trump's type then, she would be his type now, i suppose, although he's not hertype. there was crazy, it was a confession in a way. >> it was, absolutely. and there's also the trump confession, via the access hollywood video, that was brought into the trial. donald trump had that remarkable moment in defending what he said in the access hollywood trial, where he says, yes, men of always had the right to do this, famous metabolic had the right to do this to women, and apparently, his reading of history goes back 1 million years, i believe he said. and he described that right that men like him have something to abuse, women it was either fortunately or unfortunately for women. he wasn't sure whether that was fortunate for women or unfortunate for when. >> well, it's like the way he plays both sides, good people on both sides, or fine people on both sides. i mean, the idea that he didn't disabuse e. jean carroll's lawyer, rob kaplan, of that. yeah, unfortunately. or fortunately. the way it was his m.o.. by the way, eugene's lawyers did a brilliant job by also provid

tacopina, this is after the jury found former president, donald trump, his client, liable for batteryefamation, and ordered him, trump, to pay nearly $5 million to writer e. jean carroll. let's bring back cnn's chief legal analyst, laura coates. a lot was said there by mr. tacopina and he expressed, he agreed that it was a fast jury verdict. he was surprised, it seemed, that it was that fast. he definitely indicated that there is going to be an appeal. among the various grounds, well, let's just do them one y one because they're really interested in hearing your insight, laura. first of all, he said, donald trump can get a fair trial in new york city because of the jury pool. new york city is where this incident allegedly happened in bergdorf goodman's. it's that grounds for a scuffle appeal to say, look, new york, you know, manhattan specifically voted, i don't even know what it was, but let's say more than 90% of the vote, people in that burrow voted against donald trump in the last elections, he can't have a fair trial. is that reasonable? >> no. i mean, the assumption that by virt

what about donald trump? and draw tension to a case like this if he is not prepared, and a prosecutorial way, follow that outline of the conspiracy described by that federal judge that includes donald trump? >> you know, i would hope not, lawrence. i would say, the department of justice has a very good job holding the footsoldiers of the insurrection, or as i call them, boots of the insurrection accountable. not only the oath keepers in the proud boys, insurrectionists after insurrectionists have been convicted in federal court rooms in washington d. c.. i do think we are all sitting here thinking to ourselves, when will merrick garland and the department of justice begin going after the suits of the insurrection? not just the boots. the hierarchy, the command structure, there was one important takeaway from today's -- which were historically very important. that is that, enrique tarrio, the head of the proud boys, was convicted, not only of seditious conspiracy, but a host of other crimes that were committed

the jury did not believe donald trump. the jury did not -- donald trump. the jury did believe e. jean carroll. and the jury did believe the first person she told about what happened to her, her dear friend, lisa birnbach. joining us now for an exclusive interview tonight, is lisa birnbach. she is e. jean carroll's friend, and as i said, testified in this trial. lisa, thank you very much for joining us tonight. i can only wonder what this has all been like for you, i'm going to begin with the moment we all went through today. and we all had some reaction to today. when we heard this verdict. where were you, and how did you hear this verdict? >> i was doing errands today, having thought we would not have a verdict today. lawrence, and thank you for having me. when i got a text from a lawyer saying, verdict in 15 minutes. and i hightailed it to my lawyer's office and i was in a conference room with the lawyers who helped me out. when i watched it on msnbc. >> and what did you feel when this verdict came back? >> i was terrified in the few minutes waiting for it. and when i heard the

>> i think the new york legal system is off the rails when it comes to donald trump? >> do you have a response to president trump being find liable for sexual abuse? >> um, um, no. >> thank you, mr. good. >>> just a small sample of the republican reaction to the verdict in donald trump's civil rape trial. a new york jury found him liable for sexual abuse, ordering him to pay $5 million to writer e. jean carroll. we have legal analysis on the case and more reaction from capitol hill straight ahead. also ahead, a high stakes meeting on the debt ceiling lives up to the low expectations everyone predicted. a look at what could come next as both sides have a small window to hammer out a deal. >>> plus it appears that george santos elis and questionable financial claims are finally catching up to him as he is facing federal charges. >>> and a live report from el paso, texas on how the biden administration is preparing for the end of a pandemic-era immigration restriction. good morning and welcome to "morning joe" it's wednesday, may 10th. along with joe, willie and me, we ha

many observers including donald trump's last senate confirmed -- donald trump's his worst criminal jeopardy, -- -- leading up to and during the attack on the capitol on january 6th. tim scott publicly announced his bet against defendant trump by declaring himself a candidate for the republican presidential nomination today. donald trump is so confident that tim scott will never get out of single digits in the polling of the republican field, that donald trump welcomed him into the race for the republican presidential -- gulag to senator tim scott and telling him, quote, a big step up from florida governor ron desantis, who donald trump insisted today his, quote, totally unelectable. if donald trump manages to survive criminal indictments to win the republican presidential nomination, tim scott will now be a front runner for the vice presidential nomination. leading off our discussion tonight is harry lippman, former u.s. attorney and former deputy assistant attorney general. he is a senior legal affairs analyst for the l.a. times. and, proudly he is a national security attorney and former c

former president trump _ against donald trump? sure. called i president trump has been called teflon don for many years now because it seems that he still enjoys great support from today's a publican party, writ large, but that is not entirely true. that is always said, but when you look at these midterms from just this past year, we got the empirical evidence that trump is essentially the kiss of death for candidates. we are talking but congressional races. so many of his hand—picked candidates, those he endorsed out of mega world, trump world, whatever you call it, they want to lose any primaries because they were so extreme. there is this whole crop of republicans out there that really wants anyone but trump, because the maga faction is quite smart. it is the after trumper to hold the power, that people who mebude who voted for trump in 2016 as well as in 2020 but one some of else now and are frustrated with the biden administration. and desantis has a real opportunity to snag their votes as time goes on for we are still very early o

this afternoon a jury found donald trump liable for sexually abusing writer e. nd defaming her, awarding her $5 million in damages. this was the first among the dozens of claims of sexual misconduct by trump that was tested before a jury. today's ruling a reckoning with behavior by the ex-president that has become -- that we've become all too used to hearing about. trump was first heard discussing assault on women by the broader public when the access hollywood tape broke during the 2016 presidential election cycle. when he won the presidential election after that, it seemed as though the tape had ultimately had little impact. carroll's lawyers use the the tape to build damning case against are trump. jurors semd the connection between his infamous words, quote, when you're a star they let you do it, and his attack on carroll. trump has denied e. jean carroll's accusations and said he will appeal the ruling. we've heard from a few republicans who are viewing trump differently following the verdict. senator mike rounds of south dakota said he would have a difficul

donald trump jr.. ivanka trump. eric trump.ryone right to steve bannon, anyone you can think of, prevents, white house chief of staff, within the close trump circle, they are all in email communication with rudy giuliani, and she makes that point to show this was part of my work, part of my job. >> exactly. >> what is in those emails that those people won't want to have revealed? >> oh there's a lot on them! 20,000 emails, there's a lot. a lot of the emails are expressly marked as confidential or not for disclosure or distribution. keep in mind that at the time -- >> would be relevant to this case at any point to reveal emails to, from donald trump or about donald trump? >> don't hurt us right email so it would be about donald trump. >> it could be relevant, yes. we will see. >> is there anything in the emails that corroborate anything about say the 2 million dollar pardons for sale? >> not especially, no. >> have you been able to review all these emails? >> yes, we have a wonderful team and maine together my teams, we have gon

you mentioned that donald trump has a big lead in terms of. ion, given the legaljeopardy and the legal cases, can you see any sort of path that gets ron desantis there? . .., sort of path that gets ron desantis there? , , , , there? yes, i can, because these leral there? yes, i can, because these legal issues _ there? yes, i can, because these legal issues with _ there? yes, i can, because these legal issues with donald - there? yes, i can, because these legal issues with donald trump i there? yes, i can, because these i legal issues with donald trump have not stopped and they have anyjust started. the woman who challenged donald trump and he was found guilty of sexual assault, she is suing him again because he attacked her again. donald trump does not have control of his own message and his own behaviour, and he simply reacts and if he continues to make mistakes, that makes it viable for any other candidate, but i want to emphasise, right now donald trump has a significant lead and write out the last time that somebody has a lead like that and

parlatore wrote a letter to congress last month, saying that donald trump's boxes that turned out to be full of classified documents were packed in a rush by trump staff. donald trump was not involved in the packing. in a cnn interview this weekend, he was not asked to explain why donald trump said this. >> i took the documents, i am allowed to. >> today e. jean carroll's attorneys filed an amended complaint in the pre-existing second lawsuit that they have suing donald trump for defamation. this filing appears to be what e. jean carroll's lawyer was referring to last week when she told rachael that donald trump would pay for defaming e. jean carroll once again on cnn two weeks ago. the amended complaint asks for increased damages against donald trump, because he is continuing to defame e. jean carroll. republican senator tim scott of south carolina placed a bet today that donald trump's campaign for the presidency will be crushed under the weight of the cases against criminal defendant trump. donald trump is already a criminal defendant in manhattan, and appears likely to become a cr

into donald trump by special counsel jack smith. es has ever, in the history of our country, been baselessly investigated in such an outray lgeous fashion. paula, the big question, i guess, does this letter indicate that trump and his team are under the impression that he's about to be indicted? >> multiple sources tell us, jake, that the justice department has not signalled to the trump legal team that there are any indictments imminent or that they have even finished their investigation. it's not unusual for defense attorneys to meet with prosecutors at the end of an investigation when they have been informed that perhaps their client could be indicted. they're allowed to come in, make a presentation why charges shouldn't be filed. but that's not what we are dealing with here. it does appear that the special counsel's mar-a-lago investigation, the probe into the possible mishandling of classified documents is in its final phase. investigators are still receiving new evidence, even as recently as today. we could hear from more witne

be like donald trump.t is why they are freaking out today. >> hannity: will they invite him back? >> i wonder for not only cnn but abc, cbs, nbc, member 2016 donald trump just hosted "saturday night live" is on with colbert. all these places will be petrified now to extend an invite because they are free to the boycotts, the airfreight of the backlash, again, this is the leading candidate for the g.o.p. nomination and juergen have the media organization scared of their own audiences for putting him on and putting it on his perspective. >> hannity: i love joe biden i'll give him five full hours of he can handle it. [applause] >> i'll be respectful but i will ask hard questions and give them a chance to answer. >> i don't forget handle your live audience to be honest with you. [laughter] it's so funny about cnn cnn and abc and some of these other networks the only people that have on right will generally be called a republican or anti-donald trump and particularly cnn they had this woman on who work for dona

i would think it would be the case of donald trump.don't have special rules for presidents, former presidents. when a court says you do something, you obey the court. if you don't like it, you can appeal or go to the court of appeals. but you not disobey t protective order. >> i'm going to assume the vast majority of people given these directions in court proceedings obey them? >> they do. the others end up in jail. the -- that is how it works. you do not ignore the orders of the judge. >> coming back to you in one moment. going to our correspondent who has been listening in. brinus up-to-date on the details we learned. >> donald trump appeared remotely, virtually. there were two tv screens broadcasting his feed in the courtroom. a fairly brief hearing. the judge wanted to ensure he understood the protective order that has been issued. trump only spoke once when he was asked if he received a copy of that protective order. he said yes i have. he really directed the rest of the questions to his lawyer, she was sitting next to him in flor

my takeaway, with the polls, are not about ron desantis, but donald trump. u voted for trump in '16 and you went to biden in '20, you're not going back to trump in '24. because what's happened since '20? january 6th. the indictments lining up one after another after another. by the way, people go, oh, man, it just makes the base love him more. no, it may have that 33% love the guy more. it doesn't make, you know -- it doesn't make women in atlanta love him more. it doesn't make women in philadelphia love him more. just the asp. opposite. you add on top of that the dobbs decision, you add on top of that terminating the constitution. on top of that e. jean carroll, him being find liable for sexual assault against e. jean carroll, you lie on top of that him saying at the deposition and town hall meeting. yeah, that's what we've been able to do for millions of years, we've been able to sexually abuse women. with no apologies. with no apologies. trump is succeeding beyond his wildest expectation if his goal is to drive down his numbers with independents and swing

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tough week to be donald trump. an end to the nation's longest government shutdown, providing no new money for a border wall. [kevin] the president made four different offers. it was speaker pelosi who said, "i wouldn't talk about anything." and the president finally said, "this is too much." [abby] he dragged it out until, at the end of the day, the deal that he had to land to end the shutdown was a way worse deal than he would've gotten if he had just caved at the beginning. basically, he gets absolutely nothing out of this other than a lesson about messing with nancy pelosi. [john] you can't go broke betting on nancy pelosi, in general, but in the era of donald trump there was no more sure thing, was that, in a fight between donald trump and nancy pelosi, you knew who was gonna be strutting around the ring at the end. [lester] tonight, robert mueller has completed his investigation and submitted his report. [gayle] it cost more than $25 million and led to criminal charges for a number of people connected to mr. t

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what is the alternative to not having donald trump? you know, crime in the streets. ng, look at the streets in san francisco, shooting gallery in kensington, in philadelphia, since decay and crime. and they think that trump is going to come and turn it around. one alternative thing, real quickly, because people keep tweeting this to me, do you think joe biden is going to go on fox? do you think he's got to be capable of going on fox and doing a town hall like this? do you think he would be strong enough or willing enough or adept enough to do? this >> yeah. >> so, i give the president props, like david says. >> remember, we're in a primary, not a general election. i don't know why everyone is pretending we have this head to head which nobody once again, which is trump versus biden. the fact is every issue you listed, i care transmissions -- i care tremendously about, and many americans do as well. i think a lot of what consumes the beltway crowd and the media is not on the day-to-day mind of voters. i think tonight, i've been paying attention, governor desantis is pac

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rudolph giuliani and donald trump have conditions trump supporting voters to believe it's all a joke, everything about government is a joke, the law is a joke, the debt ceiling is a joke. and now joe biden has to deal with the republican members of congress who believe that the debt ceiling is a joke. eight years ago, kevin mccarthy was running for speaker for the first time, and he had to drop out of the race. when he said this on fox, -- >> everybody thought hillary clinton was unbeatable, right? when we put together a benghazi, special committee. a select committee. what are her numbers today? her numbers are dropping. why? she is an trustable. >> republicans that kevin mccarthy was the stupidest person in congress because kevin mccarthy right there said the secret part out loud. he said that the benghazi hearings were simply to attack hillary clinton and drive down her poll numbers as a presidential candidate. kevin mccarthy fellow republicans thought that that was so stupid that he lost also poured immediately but for becoming speaker. and there is donald trump. last week, saying

donald trump not happy with that comment from ron desantis. the feud continue to intensify. it's interesting because we see the more pointed and sharp criticism coming from president trump. i'll sometime seems to be passive aggressive at this point from donald trump. >> neil: nothing passive aggressive about the former president. here's what he had to say about those comments. >> governing is not about entertaining. governing is not about building a brand or talking on social media and virtual signalling. it's ultimately about winning and about producing results. >> neil: that was obviously not donald trump. bottom line, the former president was not pleased at all about this and saying that this is the same guy that owes me for making him what he is today. julie, the bottom line is this is an attack that we're going to see maybe a couple of other candidates take when it comes to donald trump. they're going to blame him for losses. not only the last presidential campaign but the mid terms and denying what could have been a red wave because not e

that doesn't help donald trump. it crushes him in the atlanta suburbs. that crushes him in the philly suburbs. it crushes him in wisconsin. it crushes him in the detroit suburbs. all the places he needs to gain. last night, the trump campaign loved what they saw because they're stupid. they really are. they're just colossally stupid if they think that was good for them in a general election. and the biden white house, thrilled that he once again showed his colors. there's breaking news that just broke across "financial times," news breaking, he said, he will do whatever it takes. he will provide whatever money is needed from his fortune to make sure donald trump is not elected president of the united states. do you know how many people are waking up this morning saying that? do you know how many people are waking up this morning saying, "you know what, i need to get involved in 2024 and stop this fascist, stop this liar, stop this guy who elevates vladimir putin and trashes america, and calls it the greatest threat t

but if, in fact, slightly, just slightly more republicans have a more negative view of donald trump, are more likely to believe he made unwanted sexual advances, i do think it could cost trump in the polls. obviously, we'll have to wait and see. but the fact is, this is just something we really have not really encountered before in american political history. so i'm just not quite sure how useful the polls necessarily are. we'll have to wait and see what happens going forward. >> appreciate it, thanks. joining the panel is cnn senior legal analyst and former prosecutor elie honig, as well as scott jennings. was there anything the president said tonight that investigators are going to be listening to closely? >> absolutely. so everything that donald trump said tonight, everything that he has said and will say publicly, is fair game for prosecutors. i assure you, they were watching and taking notes. i'll tell you two specific moments that jumped out to me as potentially usable evidence by prosecutors. first of all, in relation to january 6th, there was a moment when kaitlin asked him ab

and we asked the voters, will this make you more or less likely to vote for donald trump? and this was the most lit up and excited i have seen people about trump in a long time. the indictment has this rally around trump effect. and it creates this environment where trump sucks up all the oxygen. and i think that is happening with a lot of these indictments. there's this peculiar pathology among republican voters, where they think that the more people are out to get trump, the reason is because, he is so dangerous to -- he is the one who is going to win, they've got to get him because he's the one taking on the establishment, and the unit party in washington. and so they sort of put aside the substance, and they just think it is about trying to get this guy, because he is the person who people are the most afraid of. and that makes them want to support him more. >> right. so -- just the indictment you are talking about is the alvin bragg indictment here in manhattan for the hush money payments that the dea alleges were unlawful. >> that's right. >> -- do you think that exte

what pitch are they trying to paint your's donald trump himself said _ trying to paint your's donald to paint your's donald trump himself said this was _ trying to paint your's donald trump himself said this was part - trying to paint your's donald trump himself said this was part of - trying to paint your's donald trump himself said this was part of a - himself said this was part of a witchhunt against him, but this was a conspiracy of his opponents trying to keep them from winning back the white house. i think were going to seek kind of a two fold strategy. i think this lawyer is going to repeal list, going to try to tie up the decision over time, but then donald trump and his own way is going to attract the under opinions of the justice system that he says is aligned against him. he's going to paint it asjust aligned against him. he's going to paint it as just another example of being out to get them. and honestly, talking to donald trump supporters, they believe that. so talking to donald trump supporters, they believe that. 50 iii talking to donald trump supporters, they believe

this is a letter from donald trump's attorneys to attorney general merrick garland. the letter to the attorney general says, we represent donald j trump, 45th president of the united states in the investigation currently being conducted by the special counsel's office. they go on to propaganda rise about hunter biden which acquires makes no sense. and then they say what the letter is about in the final sentence of there's a very short letter. we request a meeting at your earliest convenience to discuss the ongoing injustice that is being perpetrated by your special counsel and his prosecutors. thank you for your attention to this matter. so there it is tonight, the trump lawyers asking merrick garland, attorney general of the united states for a meeting about special counsel jack smith's criminal investigations of donald trump which of course includes the documents investigation with the wall street journal reported today it's very close to its decision on criminal charges. in the documents case. this is the kind of letter and the kind of meeting that criminal defense

that visit was agreeably arranged with donald trump's lawyers ahead of time. no search warrant was involved, and on trump knew well in advance exactly when the justice department officials would arrive. and tonight the washington post is reporting two of donald trump's employees moved boxes of papers the day before fbi agents and prosecutor visited the former president's florida home to retrieve classified documents in response to a subpoena, timing that investigators has come to have come to view is suspicious, and an indication of possible obstruction. according to people familiar with the matter. trump and his aides also allegedly carried out a dress rehearsal for moving sensitive papers even before. his. office received the may 2022 subpoena, according to people familiar with the matter who spoke on the condition of anonymity to describe a sense of ongoing investigation. prosecutors, in addition, have gathered evidence indicating that trump at times kept classified documents in his office in a place where they were visible and sometimes showed them to other

what we saw this week is a republican party that is paralyzed by donald trump. elected republicans and trump's 2024 rivals are eager to move on, but not sure how to take on trump and are terrified of alienating their supporters and the paralysis in the party has been key to donald trump's streak. ron desantis who is having to reboot his campaign before it's gotten off the ground invited a political columnist to tallahassee last week letting reporters he does plan to announce really, really soon and yet he tiptoed around his criticism with trump, never mentioning him by name. >> we must reject the culture of losing that has infected our party in recent years. the time for excuses is over. if we get distracted, if we focus the election on the past or other side issues then i think the democrats are going to beat us again. >> desantis came to iowa with all of the presidential trappings and even had a bus wrapped with join team desantis for president and it's a question whether trump supporters accept the premise that desantis was arguing there that donald trump has

for the client donald trump. is an order that is meant to accommodate the fact that this is not just any ordinary defendant, this is someone who is running for president, someone who has frequently taken to social media and to traditional media platforms to denounce those who have accused him of a race things, to put certain kinds of evidence into the public discourse, and justice merchan is very clear that that's something that cannot happen. he asked people to defend himself, certainly, but he cannot use this evidence that has been turned over to his legal team to smear potential witnesses, to threaten potential witnesses, or even have it out in the discourse. so it's not necessarily a gag order that would prevent him from campaigning, but it is an order that is designed to protect the integrity of this judicial process while also allowing donald trump to defend himself as a defendant with rights under the constitution. >> you know there is at least one person who is or has something to say about that order, an

donald trump there. our north america correspondent, nada tawfik, was at the court in manhattan and sent this report. ejean carroll did not speak as she left the court, but her smile said everything. it took thejuryjust under three hours to rule in herfavour, while they did not find that donald trump raped her, they unanimously agreed that he sexually abused her and then defend her when he accused of being a liar. for all the women who have been abused across the country, this trial is a little step forward towards justice. he is officially recognised now as a sexual predator. on social media, donald trump denounced the verdict as a disgrace, and claimed once more that it was part of a witchhunt against him. he is strong, he is ready to move forward and he wants to fight this on appeal. again, he was successful in one appear before and he thinks he can— be successful again. this all began way back in the spring of 1996, during a shopping trip at an upscale department store, she said donald trump recognis

even if you want the to believe donald trump, to laugh at him mocking a woman who says she was raped, the jury found him liable for sexual babuse. >> it's part of the trump show. it's part of the group think that we think in rally after rally. and the question is, i don't think anyone is surprised that donald trump 3.0 is the same. the question is are voters different? have voters learned? we will see. the audience without question, there's a strain of donald trump supporters, but he lost new hampshire in the general election quite significantly to joe biden. lost it narrowly to to hillary clinton. that's not the case. one thing that the audience did not see is the exhaustion i hear from republican voters in every state i travel to that they are ready to move on from the drama of donald trump. so not surprising that he demeaned and belittled e. jean carroll. the laughter was disgusting, but it's part of the group think we see with him. i don't think it's necessarily representative of the entire universe of voters he needs. that's the issue. >> i think we'll see that as the primaries p

that's a more than 30—point lead for donald trump.h men are going to need is a lot of money. it is expensive to run campaigns. take a look at this figure, $6.6 billion — that is how much presidential candidates spent in the 2020 election. what do they spend it on? well, there's television adverts. there's also digital advertising. that's the things that you see on facebook and google, amongst others. finally, there are staff salaries. for every campaign, there has to be a team of people working behind the scenes, and that is expensive. now, ron desantis, he is said to have a lot of money. politico estimate it to be $110 million. now, we know at the end of last month, he had $88 million in a friends of ron desantis fund. compare that with donald trump. in the first three months of the year, he fundraised $18.8 million. so there is quite a gap between the two, but they are not the only candidates in this race — a number of others, including nikki haley. now, her campaign manager, in a leaked memo this week, described mr desantis as "tru

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