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Trump is daring the judge. he is baiting the judge. to mikas point, it is as if he is goading to see how he can push this. what is interesting is how she responds to all of this. and id be interested on whether or not the judge sort of finding him in contempt of court can cause him and his lawyers in and say id like you to explain now what you moon by these statements. ask him point by point, explain what you mean. im not a lawyer. im not sure how the fifth amendment applies to this, but during ...

Possible? >> great question. i think that she can certainly call that hearing. she can summon mr. trump and his lawyers. she can put the question to the lawyers. she can put it to in trump. there might be a fifth amendment issue and his lawyers may intervene. but i found when federal judges get really mad, they dont want to hear from the parties, they want to tell the parties something. in this case knock it off. because the next thing that happens is contempt. and after that -- and this is a al...

Prosecutor, it is fine if he doesnt plead guilty. 50 or 60 dont want to plead guilty? fine, we get paid either way. we go to trial. so even though it will be messy, but he will end up in a federal courtroom in trial pursuant to the rules of law and evidence that he doesnt control. that is where this goes. the hard thing for the judge, really for everyone who cares about the fair administration of justice between now and then is that it will be hard to keep this by sort of in line. we get that. t...

Very tough place in, terms of if she held him in contempt, as she would in the other defendant, if she tries to hold him in custody and revoke his bail, because of his behavior, it is going to look bad politically. she knows it. if she moved the trial up, that is a brilliant way of keeping him under control. having his lawyers try to prevent him from continuing to threaten people. so, i thought she did a really clever and wonderful thing in making that statement. i hope that it will stop him fro...

Very tough place in terms of if she held him in contempt, as she would in the other defendant, if she tries to hold him in custody and revoke his bail, because of his behavior, it is going to look bad politically. she knows it. if she moved the trial up, that is a brilliant way of keeping him under control. having his lawyers try to prevent him from continuing to threaten people. so, i thought she did a really clever and wonderful thing in making that statement. i hope that it will stop him from...

Warning in this? are those who actually finds him in contempt or do something much more stark in the manner of this? we know what hes going to do when he continues to do it in the attacks everyone, he cant help himself. donald trump is who he is in those but i think that she is going to try the rain doesnt as much as possible. >> lets bring in former federal prosecutor and former southern district of new york criminal division deputy chief. kristie, thank you so much for being here. here come al...

And then third would be, excuse me fourth will be this fulton county case if, trump is indicted. and then, a distant fifth is new york. now that leaves number one rat, number one that people havent talked about. i met put at the top the possibility that trump may get himself impossible for contempt, for violent a protective order or, saying something inappropriate to a witness. heres something that chuck todd and i were thrown around recently. for example he is on the debate stage, and he turns ...

It. his lawyer tried to expand that to include volunteers and people who were helping. the judge said, no, you cant do that. everybody is a consultant in washington and we all know thats true in washington. its going to be limited, really, to the core legal team, they can only see it, and anybody who participates and looking at it has to sign that they had read the judges order so that they too may be held in contempt if they violate the order. let me say, even though and there are restrictions ...

Towards contempt and then going towards impeachment. clearly he has no interest in upholding the rule of law are equal application of the law. he fully intends to use the law as a weapon and a political tool to protect his friends and punish enemies. this man has no right to be the attorney general of the united states. he is making a mockery of our constitution and the rule of law of the country. its time house republicans go after him as well as joe biden. >> jesse: you are right he is a part ...

In operation, but it was something of a master stroke to add one more level that she can sort of used to try to influence behavior. she wants to sort of sub divide between now and actual contempt sentence in jail, as much as she can. she doesnt want to go to that right away. >> danya, the big question here, is obviously when you take a step back there has never been a trial like this in american history. theres no precedent for it. it is both two things at once. it is a normal criminal trial, br...