it s always good to see you. happy new year, by the way, it s not too light to say happy new year. it is not, the whole month of january, as far as i am concerned. the whole 2024 will be, you can see it, but my fingers are crossed. from your mouth to my ears, have a good show. and tonight, donald trump s criminal defense team is renewing its requests for judge tanya chutkan to hold special counsel jack smith in contempt of court. with the election interference case currently on hold while trump s immunity claims get worked out in a federal appeals court, trump s lawyers lot of activity in the case halted, even the routine filing of documents which jack smith s team has said is permissible because it does not require the trump team to do anything. the motion to punish a jack smith for something that he is not prohibitive from even doing is yet another example of how donald trump has always referred to live in the world of alternative facts. with that strategy, it s on
that he has defamed her after that verdict came in earlier. i wanted to talk about a statistic that i found, because i know you also traffic in evidence and facts as i do, as a trial lawyer. nbc news analyzed more than 40 trumpison repulsion to social and found that he often uses his platform as a megaphone to attack people and agencies involved in his numerous legal cases. you and i have practiced law for a long time, would you agree that there has been a total, complete elimination of norms when it comes to legal norms when it s come to not only how a party like donald trump can conduct himself, either in a criminal or civil case, and his lawyers ability to conduct themselves in those types of cases? well, there has been an anti-democratic tendency, and i don t mean that in terms of democrats and republicans, who are just anti-democratic. in terms of the me india being used to try and subvert democracy. so yes, i think these are