stephanie ruhle, you still hav a show to do tonight at 11 eastern. we ve got lots to go lots to go now it s time to hand the whee to our colleague lawrenc o donnell. thank you, rachel donald trump was speaking, a you, know during your coverage and after the judge said i court today that he wanted the parties to this case to stop saying inflammatory things donald trump went right afte the judge and his wife today so, tonight, in that speech. so, we ll see, the judge could react to that very quickly after setting the preceden today in today s arraignment for, you know, don t do that kind of thing. so, we ll see what happens next we are entering potentially a new area of consequences for that kind of behavior for that particular politician. we are. thank you, rachel. thank you. today, donald trump took the longest trip of his life it was from his apartment in midtown manhattan to the courthouse in lower manhattan, where he would be fingerprinte and discover the contents of
warning may be common in other contexts, this was really shock to former president trump, making it very clear that yo have to follow the quorum an my orders and you have t respect this proceedings otherwise there ar consequences and very real ones within reason, you canno control the former president outside the courtroom, especially when he has tha pulpit in general, but then yo run the risk, where he runs th risk of a gag order, and w start hearing things about family members of other parties, they can get ugly quickly, and that was absolutely not what the president wants to see happen andrew, we have talked once or twice in this program about the possibility of donald trum testifying in his own, defense which of course unfortunatel for trump means under oath, an that is a big problem becaus you ve got perjury sitting right beside him every secon that he is talking a lot of people say that you can never put him on the witness stand, but this case today it looks like one of those c
warning in white-colla criminal cases like this no. there is the so-called parke warning, which is typicall given at an arraignment to mak sure that the defendan understands that, if they do not return to court, and the case goes on, that the judge has the authority to order the trial outside the president of the defendant. it is a way to make sure, in addition to bail, particular early when bail is set and the are free, to make sure the come back. but to your point, absolutel not. and it is true that there is a continuum of sanctions, if you would, that the court ca impose on disruptive defendants. it is really on reserve for th most extreme cases where defendants act out in court. as kathryn, said it could be
history ever attacked the wife of the manhattan distric attorney the answer is no, not in the entire history of the island o manhattan has that eve happened no mafia boss, no one has ever done that. in your experience with th ways in which this distric attorney s office ha approached this kind of issu in the past, the possibility o trying to limit the public speech of the defendant, wha is the record, is there an guidelines in manhattan that w could look at now in the past? no because we have not had defendant like this, eve defendants who we call them, have 7:30, who have mental health issues, the onl defendants i ve ever seen in court act out. mr. trump did not act out toda in, court he was very somber and sober andrew served. it is appropriate. but it just does not happen,
the alleged affairs. michael cohen did it for donal trump, because he had sold his soul to donald trump and that s not me, that s what he said to the american people and really, streaming around the globe. so, the personal attacks on him, i have to now try to b cautious myself. i don t want to offend the judge. he s absolutely right. lawyers and people in th courtroom now that we have a jury, it s due process, donald trump is presumed innocent until proven guilty. we ve got to be careful. but i am going to defend his credibility, because i know ho he has turned his life around. and ever since, he s bee substantiated and corroborated in every way possible, including the documents an emails and text messages tha we saw when we were at the prosecutor s the last fe months lanny, i d love to just squeeze in a commercial brea here, if you let me, because i have a couple more questions o the other side of it thank you, lawrence we re gonna be right back with lanny davis qulipta gets rig