Cnn one passenger killed dozens more hurt after a Passenger Patient into the death of actor Matthew Perry all right. 6 00 a. M. Here In Washington alive. Look at New York City, where the defense has rested in the donald trump Hush Money Trial. Good morning, everyone in kasie hunt, its wonderful to have you with us as we said, the defense rests former president Donald TrumpsHush Money Case soon to be in the hands of the jury who well have to consider whether he paid off a porn star to influence an election, will have to do it without hearing from the candidate himself. No surprise there, really, unless you made the mistake of believing donald trump yeah i would testify. Absolutely. Its a scam. Its a scam thats not a trail. Im testifying. I tell the truth. I mean, all i can do is tell the truth. Are you more or less likely you think to take the stand in the manhattan case right now. I know well if its necessary, probably so i would like to i mean, i think so i guess he listened to all the people who told him it would be a bad plan to get up there on the stand. Instead. Trump, of course, spoke outside the court and he escalated his attacks on judge juan merchan hey take a look a look take a look at where it comes from partiality because of his heritage. Panels here, molly ball, senior political correspondent, the wall street journal, matt gorman, former Senior Adviser to tim scotts president ial campaign, and former federal prosecutor, elliot williams, is also here. Elliott i guess it should have been forgone conclusion that donald trump wasnt going to testify in this case, but he clearly you didnt actually want that to be the story. Even though he acquiesced in the end, there was no universe either real, unreal meta versatile, whatever else in which would have made sense for donald trump to testify defendants very rarely do take the stand for obvious reasons. They can be picked apart past statements. Theyve made past conduct of theirs past. Theres a gag order in this case where the president had been told based on his misbehavior that there are certain things he couldnt say in publickey through alluded to their all of that could maybe have come in they would have spent more time at a hearing before trump testified talking about all the things that could get into court that hed said in the past, then he would have been on the stand for and it would have been a disaster for him. He would have been eviscerated on crossexamination. Now, i recognize that defendants often want to clear their name. Jurors. In fact, will often say and come back with a question saying, why didnt the defendant takes the stand if i were on trial, i would want to take the standard clear my name and i get it again at its a human impulse, however, it is an awful idea god bless his attorneys for getting through to him to tell him not to yeah. I mean, its managing the guy is clearly something that many, many powerful people have had a lot of trouble with. But molly and matt, i mean this is donald trump has been sort of oddly obsessed with defendants testifying in their own defense over his many years in public life, like when Martha Stewart was on trial, for example, he went on larry king and he said this, take a look devastated that martha didnt testify. I wouldve said testified, and i think that jury of 12 people is saying, like, tell us you didnt do it, dont i wouldnt want to hear from all the secretaries and everything else, many of whom were nullified and badly nullified. You gotta get up in the stand and i know its tough. She has to get up they are the chest. I didnt do it. Im innocent well, thats exactly what he was yeah. Thats exactly the attitude that elliotts talking about right . There is this sort of common perception. And i think for trump hes always looked at this with two different incentives in mind, right . Theres the legal incentive and then theres the political incentive. And as a political matter, i think he definitely wants to message to people exactly what he saw. He said in that old interview that he would have no problem getting up and telling the truth now, in practice, he doesnt want to get convicted and thats gotta be the bottom line. He does not want to get convicted in this case and it is the unanimous opinion of the Legal Profession that he would dramatically increase that risk if you were to take the stand, but i wouldnt be surprised if a lot of people out there think he did testify just because hes always out there speaking before and after court, and hes been messaging around the trials so aggressively. I think he wants to create the impression and people that he isnt afraid to speak at the same time as again, he does not want to get convicted. One thing i should clarify. I jumped right into that. Would it be good for his case . Would it not . Is it a good idea . What does it play . Most important foreign farmer more than anything else is that he has a right not to testify. The constitution when we hear, quite frankly, when you watch cop shows, you have the right to remain silent. Thats right out of the fifth amendment, which guarantees a defendant the right to not just not testify, but not put on any evidence at all at trial. And we often get quick to what would he have one if he testifies . Well, hes exercising a right that every criminal defendant, even politicians that are grossly unpopular in the jurisdiction that theyre being tried in, still have a right and frankly, we ought to celebrate. Yeah. I mean, look ill talk about purely political perspective, right . And just take the name away. What is it more advantageous placed for the mega political case where you have the entire megaphone to yourself or one of the highly skilled person, ready to rebut you on a moments notice. And who is guaranteed you are in youre entering their domain, right . Like it its politically, it just makes all the sense the welfare of not have testified, and its just a great pool. The days like trump, well weave games like a talking head early days of twitter, like 2013 years, pop it off and robert patents in. And kristen stewart, hes talking about the Marc Stewart Trial that was that was a blast in the past. I havent flashbacks to my childhood watching that clip right there. Well, the other thing you have to do if you take the stand is tell the truth and thats not really part of Donald Trumps skill set a good point molly, i do i dont want to let this past without just taking a second to focus on what he said about the judge in this latest set of attacks where he said, take a look at where he comes from. The judges colombian this is not the first time that donald trump has used this kind of an attack if you remember, judge curio for example, in another case, what do you hear him saying when he says that in some ways . Its almost surprising to me, we havent heard and make this more aggressively before now considering his history around these things. But now its coming right at the end. Yeah i mean, i kind of felt the same way that it sort of surprised it took him this long to get to this point, keeps it sort of ambiguous. Maybe hes talking about other aspects of the judges perspective besides his actual ethnic heritage. But it definitely does echo that old incident with judge carryon. I think reminds a lot of people have how he tends its to see the world which is in terms of the, these kinds of perceptions, these kinds of prejudices so youre, its once again time for our daily reminder of how far weve fallen as a nation that it is remarkable to us to sit here and say, wow, its been a month and he hasnt used a Racist Dogwhistle yet, even as former president the united states, its just he has shifted norms of how we talk about and what we expect of leaders so far that its almost remarkable that he hasnt made fun of this mans ethnic heritage and, and its just, its mindboggling at this point 0. 20, 24, 2024 good point. All right coming up deadly tornadoes in the midwest with millions now bracing for Severe Weather from texas to new england, plus a passenger killed by turbulence. 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