just over an hour ago, donald trump filed a notice of voluntary dismissal of that case. t had claimed that michael cohen violated the attorney client privilege in discussing the work he did for donald trump. the judge in the continuing civil fraud case against donald trump issued a order today saying that donald trump is not allowed to sell any of his business assets without notifying a court prior. the order also requires donald trump to provide the monitor, retired judge barbara jones, with a full list of part ownership or full ownership of business and these. they have been there every day indeed donald trump fraud trial this week. a courtroom's atmosphere changed dramatically for the better today without donald trump in the room. if you are not following adam glass welts lies tweeting at the trial or reading his ports at the trial and the messenger, then you are missing the best writing from inside the courtroom about that trial, including this. when you're a star, they let you do it, inflate air prized real estate asset, that is, according to emails entered into evid

which was frequent contact with donald trump, including having dinner with the then president of the united states, the new york times reporting tonight, shortly after he left office, former president donald j trump shared apparently classified information about american nuclear submarines with an australian businessmen during an evening of conversation at mar-a-lago, his private club and residents in florida, according to two people familiar with the matter. according to another person familiar with the matter, mr. pratte is now among more than 80 people whom prosecutors have identified as possible witnesses who could testify against mr. trump at the classified documents trial, which is scheduled to start in may, in federal district court, in florida. the account that mr. trump discussed some of the country's most sensitive nuclear secrets with him in a cavalier fashion could help prosecutors establish that the former president had a long habit of recklessly handling classified information. in the existence of the testimony about the conversation underscores how much additional infor

today he appeared as a witness at donald trump's civil fraud trial. he testified that the value of the trump company's holdings would be "whatever number mr. trump told us". mr cohen said his responsibility was to reverse engineer assets to achieve the number. new york attorney general letitia james alleges donald trump misrepresented his wealth by hundreds of millions of dollars. she's seeking a fine of 250—million us dollars and a ban on trump doing business in new york. this is how the former president reacted after mr cohen's testimony: we're not worried at all about his testimony. the testimony, and the testimony he gave about the accounting firm so, that's new york. there were developments too in a separate case in georgia. former trump lawyer jenna ellis — on the right — has pleaded guilty — and struck a deal with prosecutors over charges related to trying to overturn the result of the 2020 election. she'd been criminally charged alongside 19 other people, including donald trump. ms ellis is the third former trump lawyer to take a plea deal. she

you are listening to donald trump speaking, and we know for now that this is a campaign event for donald trump -- >> exactly. >> -- and yes, he is going to be looking to what appears in the courtroom may be incidental compared to what he feels he can get out of it for campaign purposes. you heard him going after the judge and the attorney general in this case, and again, this is no longer a bug of the campaign, but this is the legal operation that he is facing right now. and one thing that we should make clear that he shusing it to some extent to a success in the republican primary, he is losing the civil case already. he has already had a major ruling go against him that will cost him money, and as it stands, it has lost him control of the thing that he has held most dear until this point which is the control of the trump organization, and he could lose significant control of that. now, he may be using that for political gain, but right now, he has no choice. this is the situation that he face, and he is trying to take advantage of that situation. i suppose that we should ask as he is s

donald trump is one of them. again, i just want to add, too, if donald trump is criticizing the judge for being biased, i'm going to say this, it may be the case that justice goran is biased by the defendant. the key is he biased based on outside influence? no. during the course of the case, sometimes judges form opinions about the strengths and weaknesses of the party's case. that happens. it's obviously happened here. he's developed an opinion, it runs about 30 pages on the summary judgment. >> he called their defense fantasy world. >> exactly. this happens all the time. plenty of judges have formed the opinion that some of my choices throughout a case have been not good ones. that may lead you to think, oh, this judge has id out for me. i've admittedly felt that way throughout a case. i don't know if katherine has ever felt that way. it happens to attorneys. it doesn't mean a judge is biased in an improper way against you. it does sometimes feel like the world is against you. that's just a little bit of attorn

scott hall knows much more about the perils of the criminal justice system and donald trump does. of the trump codefendants, including former u.s. attorney rudy giuliani, who used the u.s. attorney's office as primarily a launching pad for his pursuit of elective office in new york. scott hall is a georgia bail bondsman, every day of his job is spend taking money from people to help them escape the hails of jail while awaiting trial. scott hall is one of the criminal justice systems profiteers. he is in a position to understand what the odds are for criminal defendants in georgia like himself. and he is betting on fulton county district attorney fani willis instead of his own criminal defense lawyers by pleading guilty and accepting a sentence of five years probation. and agreeing, quote, to testify truthfully at any further court proceedings to include trials of any codefendants. sydney powell is one of the co-defendants who is scheduled for a speedy trial beginning at the end of this month. the indictment says that scott hall and codefendant sydney powell, quote, unlawfully consp

i'm emily anglin. donald trump is back in cost. these life is case in new york involve schools of legal charges related to his business dealings. the appearance of a former us president in court has long been considered by many is on thinkable, but not with donald trump. each month springs new legal twists and tens as he campaigns the next is presidential election and a return to the white house trumps legal troubles and now with the core of his campaigning, as he portrays himself as an outside, being persecuted by the political establishment shows the purposes of with the united states. it's totally legal. this judge is bar should be allowed. so why is trumping court? this time gabriel elizondo explains in new this is a somewhat complicated case, but what it really boils down to are allegations of fraud related to trumps. business dealings and with the trump organization, the new york attorney general's office after a years long investigation brought this case last year. and at the core it alleges the trump and the trump organizat

donald trump not speaking there. and by the way, a gag order over trump now.e can not say anything about people involved in this case, although not the judge or the prosecutors, the people who work in the court itself, a gag order in place. we will see how that goes. there's the attorney general, tish james who brought this civil case. we're going to keep our eye on this trial. back to the situation at hand, and they're not completely divorced, i imagine. donald trump in court right there as his political future very much tied to the future of the republican party in general. so what's going to happen next? is it all going to get better now? now that they ousted kevin mccarthy for republicans, how do their prospects look for the next few months? >> well, let me tell you what happened in the minutes, if not hours after mccarthy was ousted. matt gaetz was out there on newsmax slamming the pro tem speaker, patrick mchenry, so that's going great. and patrick mchenry, the pro tem speaker's first item of business was to e-mail speaker aemeritus nancy pelosi to vacat

gaetz is someone who's closely aligned with former president donald trump. trump's backing on this to say, hey, get everything you can, and if it means shutting down the government, fine. certainly that's not the way it went, and i'm very much of the mind-set that trump doesn't move individual votes here on capitol hill. in terms of political cover, gaetz had that going for him as well. >> so brendan, both boehner and ryan in their time during different circumstances had similar threats on their jobs. how do you see what's going on today in the speaker's office? >> it's been an evolution, and mccarthy certainly faces a much more acute threat than either of his republican predecessors for sure. i do think that mccarthy is going to be able to survive whatever matt gaetz is planning, and probably the biggest reason for that is the conference overwhelmingly does not like matt gaetz, and as ali said, it's personal. and relationships matter. but what kevin mccarthy actually did really successfully in this shutdown saga is isolate matt gaetz and some of those membe

they say we were provided information and this is all on donald trump. so i think how that exchange goes this afternoon is going to be really important. going forward, we're going to see a number of trumps testify. whether or not they take the fifth i think will be really interesting. at the end we'll have someone come in who is a discouragement expert. that's going to be crucial because it will determine ultimately the penalty that will be paid. i think part of what we saw today, and i really want to make this point because i think it's important. today the other audience for what was going on, donald trump was clearly the most important audience for his lawyers, but the appellate court is very, very important in this. this is going to go on appeal. trump's team is very angry at a number of the rulings that have happened and they are playing to the appellate court as well as their client. >> would you expect, paul, a difference in tone between -- cross-examination, again, always an interesting thing to watch, but in terms of the prosecution and defense,

there's donald trump the former president, there's his son donald trump jr., eric trump, allen weisselberg jeffrey mccanney. >> secret service walking in. >> ivanka trump was originally named as a defendant but the case against her was dismissed basically because it was too old. there also are about ten different corporate entities named in this indictment, all related to donald trump and the trump organization, but to your question, kate, technically speaking we're going to -- the judge needs to return separate verdicts for each of these defendants, each count. so it's possible the judge finds donald trump liable on a certain count but let's say jeffrey mccanney not liable on that account, bigger picture if i'm at the defendant's table i would want my defense to be coordinated with the others. i think i would want to have everyone sort of growing in the same direction here. >> on that note i wanted to ask you, when we were speaking before you said if you were given the option of prosecuting, of trying the criminal indictment that he's facing in new york or the hush money payments or this

most trump voters never contribute a penny to donald trump. they don't fall for that part of the trump hustle. but the ones who do have the weakest minds in the history of political fundraising response. they worship amanda who began running for president saying this. >> i don't need anybody's money. it's nice. i don't need anybody's money. i'm using my own money. i'm not using the lobbyists. i'm not using donors. i don't care. i'm really rich. >> he never used one penny of his own money. but for those few weeks there, in 2015, when he was saying that, republican voters were saying that one of the reasons they loved donald trump is a candidate was that he would be incorruptible, because he never had to raise any money. and now donald trump is the american politician who has set the record for the most money raised to pay for a criminal defense attorneys. the man early trump supporters thought was so rich that he was incorruptible because he didn't have to raise money is now accused of being the most corrupt politician in american history who ha

i think it's more important that we do the reporting rather than just interviewing donald trump. the conversation which he does. so i wish we would do more of that. i wish we would stalk about what a second trump administration would do, who is he likely to appoint. a second trump administration clearly would be a vengeance tour. and what would he do to the justice department? what would he endeavor to do with the courts? in a lot of different arenas. that's what we aukt to spend our time on is digging into that, rather than saying let's interview donald trump. >>> i remember before 2016, before election day, even published a huge piece in the new yorker. nobody thought he would be president. we had a huge piece, what would happen if he became president. trump standing in the oval office. just that image shook up a lot of readers. shook up a lot of new yorker readers. did it reach everybody in the country? no, it did not. but we have to go at it over and over again with fact. also a moral imagination, too. >> marty, let me get your opinion as to how your assessment is how the medi

he is very effective, he is not donald trump. donald trump has been _ he is not donald trump.— claim thatjoe biden is unfit for office, but when they had a debate in 2020, _ office, but when they had a debate in 2020, he got clobbered in the debate — in 2020, he got clobbered in the debate i— in 2020, he got clobbered in the debate. i think donald trump, the term _ debate. i think donald trump, the term is— debate. i think donald trump, the term is gas— debate. i think donald trump, the term is gas lighting, he knows his brain— term is gas lighting, he knows his brain is— term is gas lighting, he knows his brain is not— term is gas lighting, he knows his brain is not fit for this job and i do not — brain is not fit for this job and i do not understand why the republican party can't— do not understand why the republican party can't find an alternative. one less thing. — party can't find an alternative. one less thing, there is an alternative now in— less thing, there is an alternative now in the — less thing, there is an alternative now in the democratic race, dean phillips— no

but more importantly they are seeking to ban donald trump and his relatives from the ability to do businessnew york state. which is a huge blow to the trump organization and to the financials involved. it does not affect his ability to run for president or vote for himself. it is mostly affecting his business. there are the other criminal cases working in the background which have a tremendous effect on a lot of things in the election. and i will get to that later. the most important thing in this case is the ability to do business in new york state. emily: claire, what is at stake for trump, what could this case cost him? we are hearing figures of around $250 million, what impact will that have on him? claire: it is hard to tell because as he himself said, with each indictment my popularity goes up. i don't think that will hold for a general election. but at the moment that is how this has been playing to his base. $250 million to a man like donald trump, it is hard to tell what his actual wealth is like, but it may not feel like a huge haircut to him. i think it may cost him politically b

>> today is a very bad day for donald trump. but i will say, wolf, i don't think it's a complete surprise for trump, because they have been wondering for months now what meadows was telling prosecutors. it was public that he had testified to the grand jury. we reported that back in june. but now donald trump knows that mark meadows has immunity. he is protected from whatever he might have been vulnerable to. i want to add one thing to this. in addition to his testimony, mark meadows was ordered and would come under this immunity agreement to hand over documents. anything relevant. emails. text messages. so there may be a trove of physical documents, communications, that also add to the picture and the evidence, wolf. >> very significant development indeed. gloria, meadows was certainly one of trump's closest and highest-ranking advisers over at the white house. it's hard to overstate how big of a blow, potentially, this is for the former president, right? >> well, it certainly is. i mean, he was the enabler for donald trump. if h

the judge overseeing donald trump's federal election subversion criminal case just reinstated the gag order she issued on the ex president earlier this month. a significant development made by u.s. district judge tanya chutkan who denied trump's request to pause the initial order while his appeal plays out. she also lifted a temporary freeze on the gag order that she issued on october 20th while she considered his request. now, you may recall the gag order, which was limited and initial scope, had prohibited donald trump from making certain statements about the special counsel's team, or potential witnesses, including any comments that directly targeted the courts personnel. potential witnesses, or the special counsel and his staff. here's some important context on this late breaking developments on the sunday evening. earlier this week, following a report that is former chief of staff mark meadows might have actually reached an immunity deal with the special counsel, donald trump attacked meadows on his failed social media site. as a response to that attack against meadows, jack smit

my cat would be better than donald trump. nt to be who wants to tear apart constitution. that's a low bar to say issue better than trump. you have to get past the republican primary first. a lot of us who thought that nikki haley, i mean, i was a republican for 27 years. she was an up and comer, she was someone we look to and said, okay, she's got potential for a larger office, we like what she did in south carolina, standing up to the races, taking down the flag of treason, as we called at the lincoln project, confederate flag. those were bold moves in south carolina. when it was politically advantageous to her, in her mind, she took the other side when she needed to. aka, becoming donald trump's u.n. ambassador. you cannot trust her, well the real nikki haley please stand up? i don't think we really know who that is. does she? >> to your point, i'm glad you brought it up, tara. he'll initially endorsed marco rubio. in 2016. >> i was there in south carolina in the primary when she did that. >> and she told marco rubio, i wond

straight is why none of donald trump's criminal defense attorneys can build a strategy based on donald trump testifying in his own defense. if trump tries to perform for the news media in the courthouse hallways during his criminal trials, anything incriminating that he might stupidly say can and will be used against him inside those criminal courtrooms, even if he is too afraid or too guilty to testify in his own criminal defense. leading off our discussion tonight is adam klasfeld, senior legal correspondent for the messenger and was in the courtroom for today's proceeding. also tim o'brien, senior executive editor from bloomberg opinion and author of "trump nation: the art of being the donald." he is host of the bloomberg podcast "crash course" and a msnbc political analyst. also catherine christian, former manhattan assistant district attorney. she's an msnbc legal analyst. and adam, we have to bring in with you because you were there. you were in the courtroom today, and because i wasn't and there is no transcript, i don't even know how to guide you in the questioning. report to u

as donald trump is a serial litigator. and i think that the effect on his a space, the mega group will be just to support him even better than i think if he is acquitted, then he will say, i told you, so that was all of which are and, and his support will go up dramatically. so i think either way, any of these 3 criminal cases goes, i think it will probably be down to the benefit of his election possibilities. unless of course, he's sentenced to serve time in jail. if that happens, that's not going to be for quite a while. maybe after the election clear, i want to get your reaction to was gold, monica, and haven't been brought in the new york times and i quotes the she volume and variety of the legal developments. it's q is the individual cases and the fact patton's and plays into trumps argument that his opponents of trying to take him down by whatever means they can, your reaction. yeah, i want to begin 1st by responding and this is by way of a response as well. to that quote, that this is a witch hunt and that donald tr

i thought kevin wallace did a really great job of just explaining how donald trump and his family and others basically reverse engineered the value of individual asset like trump tower and 40 wall street to arrive at the president's trying to get to a certain level of net worth, and i think the general point, katie, of what happened today is karma catching up on donald trump. donald trump has evaded legal process for so long like a pro, but it's basically catching up on him. i mean, ari is not here, so i can go outside of hip-hop quote the great legal scholar taylor swift, karma's going to track you down step by step from town to town and that's what we're seeing here in the very first, you know, formal trial beginning against donald trump. >> so, maya i want to get your take. you've dealt with civil cases like this. this is a civil fraud trial and because it's not a criminal case, do you think it was okay for the prosecution to take this particular approach for opening statements and reiterating and reinforcing to justice engoron something that he's pretty much found in terms of liab

michael cohen and donald trump, they were very close, it . honest. ael cohen and donald i trump, they were very close, it used to be his most passionate backer and i was his most passionate critic. he cut off ties from donald trump about five years ago. since that is going on to read a book, he's never missed an opportunity to go after donald trump. this is the first time they've seen each other when michael cohen walked into the courtroom, he and donald trump didn't look at each other. donald trump at his arms folded when michael cohen gave his testimony. the court is in recess, they return in an hour. he didn't look at michael cohen either. it's worth mentioning that donald trump doesn't need to be in court but he has come and they were already pulling punches before they got to the courtroom. as you mentioned, this trial, this lawsuit by the attorney general was the impetus for the congressional probe that michael cohen gave evidence to in 2019. it could have huge consequences for donald trump at his business, couldn't it?— donald trump at his busi

is it just about donald trump's state of mind? is that the import of what we're learning here, if the ap recording is true? >> it's at least part of it. because one of trump's big defenses of both january 6th prosecutions is, hey, i reasonably thought i won the election, and all of these actions were calculated to try to protect democracy. you and i know how likely that is as a plausible explanation, it's not. but in criminal law, there is something called -- you've got the eagles that of mind. for meadows to say this, if that abc reporting is, obliterate donald trump's state of mind event. and it could also go further. it may just go to what we call the -- criminal acts that donald trump undertook. so meadows was in the room. did he see trump ordering various things, including seizing voting machines, or all the other nonsense? but meadows is in the room, he's obviously the most important, and i think the prosecutors are right to bring him in before the grand jury and try to get what he knows. >> so, amy lee, what could've potenti

this is donald trump not the defendant, it's donald trump the candidate.aughing when i was watching him because i've had so many of these conversations before, but it's truly sad because what he's doing is capitalizing on the ignorance of the public that does not necessarily understand how the legal system works, like you already talked about. he knows because his attorneys explained to him and because he's not unfamiliar with the courts what summary judgment is and why he's in the position that he's in. but his followers, his acolytes, his devotees, they don't understand that and he's capitalizing that on that by making it seem he was denied access to a legal trial. and understand this is a narrative that we can fully expect to hear parroted and repeated by many people who aren't as sophisticated but who do follow him and take his word as law as if to suggest that because this judge is a democratic person, he's not someone who can be trusted and railroaded donald trump into not getting a fair trial. >> alena haba, and some of the other attorneys got prett

neil: much attention on donald trump surprising offensive on the civil suit. reet journal over the last couple minutes has an interesting story that explains why it's so important to trump that trump's wallet and reputation is tested in the civil fraud trial it's everything he's about. i kind of concur with that. his reputation and success the billionaire businessman beyond old dreams is being called into question in the civil suit. the judge in question has already said is guilty. by maligning him in the value of his assets i don't know what the month-long potential civil battle ultimately decides but for donald trump it is very important what do you think of that. >> not to veer into financial reports but it's his biggest asset and the asset that he used to great success in 2016 to win the white house. i think the financial and the business ramification are far greater than any political ramification. the amount of legal exposure is significant and you and i talking here today i think you be the first of many times where we can talk about donald trump in cour

que donald trump inflÓ el valor d sus propiedades.ca. >> (habla en ingles). >> una reuniÓn excelente. michael cohen exabogado de donald trump y testigo clave, se enfrentÓ cara a cara con su expediente de cinco aÑos de no verse y dando declaraciones explosivas en el estrado asegurando que donald trump le ordenÓ a Él inflar enormemente sus activos para lograr un patrimonio neto mÁs alto a sabiendas que era impreciso y que cuando mostraba sus estados financieros donald trump veÍa los activos totales y decÍa no vuelo $4,500,000,000, algo mÁ de 6000 millones. querÍa que regresÁramos con el objetivo deseado, testificÓ. >> no estamos preocupados el lo absoluto por su testimonio dijo el exmandatario.n lo absoluto por su testimonio dijo el exmandatario. para este abogado constitucionalista de telemundo y no vinculado al caso el testimonio de cohen es clave. >> era el abogado que arreglaba todo. sabÍa lo que donald trump querÍa hacer y por quÉ lo hacÍa. dar un precio mÁs bajo y luego inflarlo. cambiar los pies cuadrados del apartamento. >> el j

point what i was saying about personal for it is just making the distinction between the fact that donald trump, the man versus the world view of conservative versus progressive policy, that is what will actually be on the ballot. so whether it's trump or somebody else, tens of millions of people will vote for donald trump because they don't like bite and nomics. they don't like the fact that joe biden has caused an effective $6000.00 pay cut, median pay, cut per household, and then ask permission from defense when you have $10.00, dozens of suppose it experts lying about something being signature. russian was information. it really back to the question of who's defining this information. and so i reject my co panel as a claim that but that trump, voters are in the throes of misinformation. when the folks themselves who define it are the ones who are aligned to us. well, this is certainly a complicated topic there, plenty of moving pads, and we appreciate all of your insights and we do have to wrap it up there. but no doubt this will be something that we touch on in the weeks and months to come

donald trump knew to make his will known without specifically saying it. e is a bit of a discrepancy there. that is fair game for cross-examination. that is fair game for trump's lawyers to argue to judge ultimately here. michael cohen is not credible. his testimony has been inconsistent. here is where donald trump is off the rails, though. this does flotnot mean the case over. witnesses sometimes have inconsistenties and it is to the trier of the fact. and is it doesn't mean game over and i won and let's go home. it means this witness has had some damage done on cross-examination and we expected and it will be up to the judge. >> we're being railroaded here -- >> and elie honig, in addition, do you think that donald trump, who has been repeatedly told an threatened with a gag order, do you think him going out there and saying we're being railroaded here, do you think that that will have any impact, again his explaining, his taking issue with the manner of the trial, et cetera? >> well he's towing the line as we've seen quite a bit. the gag order in this pa

very combative donald trump today. we have never— listen. very combative donald trump today.er seen him - listen. very combative donald trump today. we have never seen him talk| today. we have never seen him talk at this link inside the courtroom during one of his trials. at this one, because, again, as you mentioned there, his whole entire real estate empire is at stake. this one in particular has very much rattled donald trump. we make the claim there about tomorrow lago. look, he is taking real issue with evaluations of his properties. —— mar—a—lago. the thing is that these evaluations that the judge referenced in his ruling, finding that donald trump did overvalue his properties by millions, those came from assessors. so when he talks about mar—a—lago, it was the palm beach county assessor who found that mar—a—lago was $18 million, and yet donald trump continues to argue that it is worth over $1 billion, that he could get anyone to buy it. this is the real key issue. we saw an opening statement. kevin wallace from the attorney—general team saying, you know, look, we saw d

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imprisoning him, to be clear $5,000 is pocket change for donald trump, but this is about donald trumpis clerks falsely accusing the clerk of having an affair with chuck schumer. there's literally no evidence of this. you know what it's like to be at the end of a donald trump smear and now some house republicans other than you, and kinzinger know what it's like to get death threats. do there need to be more serious consequences for donald trump when it comeses to this kind of thing. >> almost without exception, almost without exception, the judiciary has been a stalwart in terms of recognizing and understanding the threat to the republic that's posed by donald trump's past behavior by what he did leading up to january 6th and frankly, what he's continued to do, and so i think that it's really important that people recognize the efforts that he's putting to try to tear down every institution of our democracy, and i think that we have -- we all need to be very clear about the extent to which the judges and the justices in this country, and again, as i said, almost without exception wheth

helps to strengthen donald trump. >> so former trump lawyer sidney powell and kenneth chesebro strucka deals and both have agreed to testify in future trials. based on your investigations as vice chair of the select committee investigation, do you think they have information that could have bigger consequences for people up the food chain, including donald trump? >> certainly. i think there is no question. and i think that in both cases, i mean, we know for example that sidney powell was in key meetings at the white house including one where donald trump may have well signed invoking the insurrection act with mike flynn in the room and ken eng chesebro was involved in the electors extreme. >> it was his scheme. >> well he certainly helped to put it in place. but at the end of the day, donald trump oversaw everything. >> right. >> and that scheme of presenting false electors to try to convince pike pence to take unlawful action and unconstitutional action directly touched donald trump. >> and a new york state judge fined trump $5,000 for violating the gag order and raising the pros pec

are ineverable things that you will get such as glances from tisch james and eye contact with donald trump and things like that are really important. but, no, this is political theater. and the press conference that trump just gave, i don't think that we carried all of it, because it is not really pertinent to the case at hand. >> and if this continues, does it impact the judge? the facts are the facts, and what happens in the courtroom is different from what they are seeing from >> and is this going to impact other cases? >> the answer is absolutely not, and the judge will do a good job to keep the court of public opinion separate. it could only impact the court of public opinion when it veers off over into the potential of interfering with danger, and let me sgrrnlg and where to rein him in on the first amendment rights. >> we mentioned donald trump did not look the attorney general in the eye. we are not sure why, and one reason could be that she beat him already once at least in appeals. the key part of the case he is found to have committed fraud. part of what we are seeing here is a

donald trump is the crypt keeper. he keeps ushering out people who are these almost emblematic cartoon characters. donald trump is archie bunker in a suit. michael cohen is a fixer in a suit. i was in that courtroom last week. you run through the state supreme courtroom with a state judge, who is colorful. and he has his lawyers. it's about the cameras rather than the consequences of the legal process. i think what's going to end up here has been predictable from the beginning. i think very early on said trump has clearly had a pattern of fraud so it's really just a matter of what the penalty is going to be. and michael cohen's testimony today is adds on to the other testimony and evidence that's come into the public record that donald trump inflated his assets. i think if his lawyers had been combat ready and had been a little more astute about how to defend their client, they would have requested a jury trial. they may not have been granted one, but i think the judge would have wanted to defer to team trump i think

we begin this hour with our breaking news, the judge overseeing donald trump's federal election subversion criminal case has reinstated a gag order she issued on the ex president just earlier this month tanya chutkan also denied trump's request to issue a long term stay of the order which bars him from publicly targeting court personnel, potential witnesses or the special counsel's team while his appeal played out. she originally issued the order after prosecutors raise concerns that the ex president could intimidate witnesses or encourage harm against prosecutors through his public comments. at this hour donald trump now faces to gag orders barring him from discussing his legal cases in the public. here's one from check-in who is overseeing the case by jack smith and washington d. c.. the second one that is from a judges overseeing the civil fraud trial here in new york. now while the orders are both limited in their scope they've a measurable limit on donald trump's speech in his ability to attack the court. here to discuss this is durban reuben. former manhattan prosecutor jennifer horn

even if trump's team was not. and donald bender, trump's former accountant, testified today.someone that you've called before. trump looked pretty uncomfortable during that moment. why do you think it would be so upsetting? what does he have that would be upsetting to trump? >> i wasn't in court today but obviously mr. bender was an accountant who worked for the trump organization. i think testified, if i'm correct, correct me if i'm wrong, that he felt like he was misled. and misled significantly. so that -- he will be cross-examined, he's trying to cover his own mistakes. it'll be all these arguments. but those i don't think we'll have any way with the judge. as preet said, we're. done maybe he's making a record for the court of appeals. but when you are an accountant or some professional that you worked with for decades and who has an inside knowledge of finances and how business works, when that person basically says i was like to, that's relevant and important. >> they literally have the receipts. and then some, a lot of paper. but one of the things, preet, that was stri

evidence against donald trump in jack smith's case.that story was -- told to the grand jury. >> to every public -- it's also my transcripts -- >> that would be one of the key points, reasons, then you would be called as a witness in those prosecutions? >> potentially, yes. they've also been several people that have testified on the record to being in donald trump's presence where he admitted that he lost the election. there are also several people on the record, to be fair, on both sides, as in my committee transcripts as well as other government entities, that sometimes he would admit that he hadn't lost, or that he was questioning whether he lost. again, i can't climb into his psyche, but it seems pretty clear to me that he knew he lost the election. mark meadows knew that he lost the election, but they were doing everything they could to try to prove that the election was throwing, somehow. you can't prove that in the election was stolen when it was not stolen. you can't prove an election was stolen when there is it was free and fai

donald trump jr., a codefendant and the case, is expected to testify wednesday, november 1st. this brother eric also a codefendant,ll testify the very next day. ivanka trump will testify on friday november 3rd, and the family patriarch himself will testify the following monday, november 6th. new york attorney general alleges that the -- financial statements that were given to banks, insurers, and others to help secure loans and deals. trump denies any wrongdoing and is called the trial a politically motivated sham. but, the case could strip trump of some of his corporate holdings and key properties like trump tower. this week's schedule -- blockbuster stretching the child, because the attorney generals office knows that, the prosecution plans to rest its case asked after trump testifies. speaking of, aside from his three minute appearance on the stand this week to answer questions about violating a gag order, donald trump hasn't testified in open court in a decade. and his children are the most significant witnesses yet. not just because of their family ties to donald trump, bu

donald trump's reputa,

much. >> have a good show. >> thank you. >>> one hour and 15 minutes, that's how long it took donald trump to commit what might be a violation of a last night, at 706 pm. judge tanya chutkan reinstated her gag order on trump in the 2020 election case, brought by special counsel jack smith. the gag order had been put on pause for nine days, well judge chutkan reconsidered her decision and her new arguments from the special counsel and donald trump's criminal defense team. trump's attorneys wanted it removed on first amendment grounds, but judge chutkan reiterated in her ruling last night that, quote, as the court hasexained, the first amendment rights of participants and criminal proceedings must yield when necessary to the administration of justice. contrary to defend this argume, the right to a fair trial is not his alone, but belongs austin to the government and the public. defendants repeated appeals to broad first amendmentes, therefore ignore that the court pursuant to its obligations to protect the integrity of these proceedings recognize those values, but and balancing them against

among them, donald trump. eric trump, ivanka trump.zations cfo allen weisselberg and trump's former fixer michael cohen. msnbc legal analyst barbara mcquade joins me now. we -- are also back with us. i will start with, you barbara. between the ruling against his attempts to delay in the manhattan judge ruling that he did indeed commit fraud. do trump and his codefendants even have a chance of escaping accountability at this point? is the writing on the wall? >> i think the writing is on the wall, ayman. i think the question really is, what does that writing? say what are the dollar value? so how much is at stake here what the judge found was that donald trump had overvalued his assets to the tune of 2. 2 billion dollars. it was the largest margin. the devil is in the details. some of the things that they're going to do this week's figure out exactly how many these assets are worth. i imagine we will see expert witnesses and people who are experts and financial valuation as well as some of the people you just names who will figure out t

other than donald trump. again, i remain just absolutely -- i'll try to be emotionally level on this -- fascinated by the fact that -- >> it's hard. >> -- people are still, will you vote for a guy who steals nuclear secrets, takes them to his beach club, steals war plans and takes them to his beach club, and now, in this case, talks the specifics about our nuclear submarines, and talks about how close we can get to russian nuclear -- i mean, this is the sort of information that russian spies would die to get. and that our spies would risk their lives to get from other countries. donald trump is just sitting there at mar-a-lago blabbing it. then this guy goes around and tells maybe 20 more people. >> oh, yeah. it's a whole other problem. >>> also ahead on "morning joe," republican congressman jim jordan picked up a big endorsement in his bid to become house speaker, but one prominent republican is warning the party about what could happen if he gets the gavel. >>> along with joe, willie, and me, on this friday

up next for us, an exclusive statement of former chief of staff to donald trump, john kelly. s disturbing comments made by trump about veterans and the military. miles taylor is standing by to discuss all of that. plus, more breaking news tonight. that nine-year-old girl who went missing during a family camping trip has been found alive. a suspect is in custody. we are expecting a news conference to begin an eight-minute. >> god help us. that is former chief of staff to donald trump, john kelly, about the prospects of donald trump and the open office yet again. kelly was along the surveying white house chief of staff for trump. he is issuing his harshest critique yet. in an exclusive statement to jake tapper, kelly confirms numerous stories about statements trump made about clusters, including attacks about u.s. service members and veterans. he discusses laws about the person who defends his country in uniform are shut down or seriously wounded in combat or spent years being tortured as p.o.w.'s are all suckers because there is nothing in it for them. a person who did not want

that is donald john trump. trump's legal team is expected to file for a stay pending appeal in that case tomorrow morning. and finally, the judge in georgia's rico case has declined to dismiss the charges against sydney powell. this as d. a. fani willis is seeking the testimony for six out of state witnesses in the upcoming trial of powell and chesebro. >> you know, every time we think about this, case i always think about how big and sprawling it is and what it means here. i think there are good aspects and bad cases aspects, as everything including out of state conduct is ascribed to everyone. two months especially even these witnesses who will talk about arizona and pennsylvania as well as georgia, she wants that. >> did you follow all that? in short, he is trying to throw a delay or cancel everything against him and the d. a.'s are basically just saying, i'd like more witnesses, and more witnesses, and more witnesses. and their judges haven't given him anything that he wants, yet, and without let's get smar