where he ll finally experience consequences for some of his actions. next week, tuesday, marks the beginning of the second e. jean carroll defamation trial. news on that later on. but first things first, developments ahead of closing arguments. tomorrow in new york s $250 million civil fraud lawsuit. the judge revealed he would not allow donald trump to deliver part of those closing arguments himself as he had requested. the reasoning, neither trump nor his attorneys ever got back to the judge agreeing to preconditions. in truth, it is hard to imagine what trump wanted more, an opportunity to put himself at the center of proceedings to deliver his message in his own way, or an opportunity like this, to complain, whine about being silenced, despite the fact his own team failed to respond to the judge on time. remember, in both cases, e. jean carroll s defamation and new york s civil fraud, trump s
ron desantis. it is their last chance to make their case to voters before the caucuses this monday. let s bring into our conversation ali vitali live from des moines at tonight s debate. michael and simone are here as well. you got chris christie failing to qualify. can either one of the two candidates take on his role and attack trump head-on. reporter: not in the way that cristy has been doing it. the way we ve seen haley and desantis go at trump is nibbling around the edges of the criticism of the former president. nikki haley has added to her speech this idea that chaos follows trump, saying the quiet part outloud, speaking to the obvious outgrowth of what it looks like to have trump in the white house and for ron desantis, he has been critical of the fact that trump has been a loser on the national stage, referencing both past midterm
the judge and his law clerked who he has talked about ad nauseam in fairly graphic ways, wishing them a happy new year and signing the email chris. there s an informality going on here in this proceeding because these people have lived with each other for weeks. also because it s a state court proceeding. none of this would ever be happening in the federal courts that harry and i have practiced in. there could be no email. there would be no dialogue like, signing things chris as opposed to respectfully christopher whatever his middle initial is. none of this would be happening in a federal court. we saw that yesterday when trump went to d.c. he could not transform the federal court complex in d.c. into his personal theater the way he s been able to turn 60 center street downtown into his constant you have the weather working against him. no, but it hasn t been allowed. there are no cameras there. there s no press conferences
whether to get their bodies into the courtroom based on their perception of what theatric are going to unfold before them. part of it was getting bodies in chairs. part of it was ensuring that he could fund raise off of a new grievance, because all of these court appearances have been successful for him from a fund-raising perspective and it was also about just being able to complain. like, a new wound, a new grievance that you can use as a cycle for new social media posts. you know, the one thing that i think is also really interesting about this exchange i want to point out is how it starts. we talked about how it ends. it turns very trumpy at the end with wording and phrasing that doesn t seem like chris, even capitalizing the word mother-in-law which is straight out of trump s social media posts style guide, so to speak. but it starts with chris wishing
this was not common in the country since the early 70s and 80s. we went through a period this was not top of mind with exceptions. now day in and day out, the threats for domestic political violence. didn t mention another story this week, roger stone audio, the media reported, roger stone threatening that working with a police officer, threatening allegedly and threatening to assassinate members of congress. roger stone worked with the proud boys, we know. these are people that are with close ties to trump. i think these threats are real, and i think everything that mary and frank have said about the reasons to take them seriously are accurate. i also think from a political standpoint, you know, president biden carrying that message and