Critical final weeks beforehand, he is lashing out at his sexual assault accusers and his own attorneys and the man who was once the embodiment of the republican party, dick cheney is casting his vote for democrat kamala harris. Why the former vice president but it says trump can't be trusted with power. Again the 14yearold georgia school shooting suspect in court, alongside his father, both of them coming facetoface with the families of the victims i'm kaitlan collins and this is the source with fewer than nine weeks to go before the election, donald trump secured a pretty big win today regarding his new york hush money conviction. Instead of being sentenced potentially to jail in two weeks from now, he will now be sentenced after november 5, and that's only quote, if necessary, those two words standing out from judge marshawn's decision today, and i'll tell you why in just a moment. But really this decision overall means there will be no bid courtroom drama playing out before voters are going to the polls. At least not in a courtroom here new york, troubles with his attorneys when he found out this news today. That's because he spent the morning in another courtroom for another hearing actually coming within feet of e. Jean jean carroll, the woman that a jury found he sexually abused and defamed, which didn't seem to deter him, judging by the comments that he made afterward. This is a disgraceful case. I have no idea who the woman is and i never met her i'm disappointed in my legal talent. I'll be honest with you. They good they're good people. The talented people. Today at the trial, they didn't mention the dress. I said, why didn't you mentioned that pretty notable to stand there and watches. Trump was surrounded by those very attorneys who represent him on many different cases. As he said, he was disappointed of them and listed off grievances during what was bill as a press conference but didn't involve answering any of our questions judge mershon judge ngoran and judge kaplan very, very hostile judges. I got sued essentially for defamation because i'm denying a story i'm right. I should be suing her for defamation. There were two witnesses one is a woman who's followed me for years she said an 18 79, i was in an airplane with her. She said i was making out with her, that i grabbed her to certain part and that was when she had enough it didn't happen and she would not have been the chosen one. She would not have been the chosen one yes. You heard that, right? trump criticizing the physical appearance of some of his sexual assault accusers now this comes and what you just heard there, it was 45 minutes of that today from trump tower. And it's all coming as some 15% of likely voters and six battlegrounds tonight remain undecided on who they're going to be voting for in november my lead source tonight was at that press conference sitting next to me while trump was going off and venting senior political correspondent for the new york times, maggie haberman. I mean, maggie just obviously, trump had just come out of that courtroom where e. Jean carroll was was just a few feet away from him as he's appealing this third is also a strategic choice. Choice, maybe not that strategic to come out and talk and draw attention to the section full assault accusations against you and sexual abuse findings by a jury. And also his criminal conviction here in new york. I don't know of anyone who was recommending that he'd do this. It's also worth noting he didn't have to be in court today. He chose to go to this hearing and i understand it. He has made very clear he wants to be at legal proceedings connected to him that is invariably going to draw attention to this news conference and he didn't take questions from us as, you know, because you were there as i was there. All this is going to do is call more attention to that as well at a moment when he is trailing badly with women in polls. And so this, certainly he has called attention to all kinds of things that are typically leon helpful for a candidate sometimes it has not hurt him, it didn't hurt him in the primaries when he called attention to the indictment, said he was facing this is not a primary anymore and this is different. These allegations are different and it wasn't just that he called attention to them he laid them out in graphic detail. He talked about allegations that frankly, i suspect much of the public doesn't remember anymore, but if they were tuning in, they will. Yeah. It seemed like what your opponent would be doing two months out from the i'm sure they will be after that press conference. I'm out of reviving all of the nittygritty details of these allegations that have had followed him since he was inside the white house and a candidate and before before 20 16 yeah. I mean, look, he he denies all of them. You saw that their he has said that repeatedly as, you know, well, he thinks that he is his own best defender. Both in a courtroom and on television, and he likes to he likes to be in front of cameras. There are times when that aligns with good politics for him. And then there are times when it does not, and it is hard to see how this may not matter because there's so much baked in with him and it's very hard to imagine how many actual undecided voters there are. I think there are people who are leaning in one direction or another and may say that they're undecided, but they're really persuadable this is not generally a lot of information that you would put the out there and he just gave the harris team a bunch of soundbites to use in ads. What i was thinking was also clearly, this is a very sensitive issue. We know that if you've covered him, you know, the e. Jean carroll thing, especially. But he was making clear harris is debate prepping and pennsylvania. He made clear here's a road map for issues that i'm that i'm triggered by that something was saying, here's potentially a sensitive topic to go after me on on tuesday night, and here's things i might say, depending on how you how you do it and thank many would right with millions of people tuning into this it's just, there's a lot of reasons why i can't really imagine that anyone in his campaign was actively saying, you know what, here's an idea. We're going to take to you you know, you should go do this. He tends to want to do these things on his own and there aren't very many people who say he shouldn't. So the attorneys that were standing there around him, you you can only see a few in the actual camera shot when he was talking. But actually, you can see john sauer on the left, alina haba, will scharf, todd, blanche, and emil bove, who was next to him, boris epstein he was criticizing them, which was maybe one of the biggest, most standout moments from the conference, news conference today, where he was saying, they're good, they're good people, they're talented. But he was critical of how they've handled the e. Jean carroll case. What did you make of him doing that in such a public way it's a way to show dominance. It's a way to say what he wants knowing they're not going to say anything back to him because this is a public setting and they're not going to turn to him and argue. And it's a way to humiliate and that is something that we know that he has done with any number of aides and lawyers, and advisers and employees over a number of decades. He is he is constantly complaining about his lawyers. You know, this this has been going on for decades, even even roy cohn, who he has mythologized as the most perfect lawyer in his, in his death has since his death, he was really critical of in real time and he distance himself from when were cone was dying of aids. So this is now i'll just the latest these, these, these people who have defended him pretty aggressively and in the ways he has asked more often than not up to a line that they try not to have cross where it would cause problems with a judge or a jury. He is still not enough room. Yeah. And he had a lot to say about judges today. There was a moment of kind of disconnectedness between what he was saying about the judge's that his cases are before and what other people say about judges that he likes. I just want everyone to listen to those two moments backtoback they say terrible things about judges. They do with the supreme court justices because they think they're going to intimidated. I think it should be illegal. Judge marshawn judge ngoran and judge kaplan, all of them hostile areas and very, very hostile judges. There were there's a lot there, but, you know, look, trump has been very critical of judges and he has been critical of reporters who cover him in ways he doesn't like for long period of time. He described it at one point in that press conference that i don't think you showed as working the ref and then he started talking about the late coach bobby knight. And then he went we've seamlessly from that and he was talking about the judge's right before he started talking about bobby knight and working the ref. And then he went seamlessly into saying that some of us meaning us in the press should be ashamed of ourselves. I mean, a lot of this is working the raf. He just sees judges as no different than anyone else. And he said openly, he thinks republicans are not good enough that he praised judge aileen cannon without naming her, harb, it's a judge he appointed who dismissed the documents case against him in florida the other judges who were involved in cases that he didn't do very well in. He was very critical of himself there's not a, there's not a specific through line, but he has he has made a career out of working the ref and it's not surprising. Yeah. I mean, the through line was criticizing the judges who don't dismiss the cases were treated fairly even though judge marshawn today, we saw but he did just a little after that and then praising the ones who do dismiss. Well, yeah, i would i would actually make the argument that judge marshawn decision to adjourn the case until after the election or during the sentencing until after the election in that case while i suspect donald trump doesn't actually want to go to prison there is a world in which this would be politically helpful to him because his supporters have been galvanized around moments like that. And he is he is an a student of reader of the political landscape, especially among his base, to probably know that it may have been better for him politically, which everything for him is hinging on this election. It comes to other court case, correct. And i think that he is acutely aware that if he loses the election, that is the case, and there could be the other investigations we obviously didn't get to ask questions. I had a lot about the debate on tuesday night, obviously, he's getting prepared. He's ever met vice president harris inperson, which is kind of striking. It is they'll be coming facetoface a live debate stage. We heard from her today. It seems to be a preview of what she is going to say on tuesday night. Listen to what she said he talks about being so rich he inherited hundreds of millions of dollars from his father and went bankrupt six times. And i think that we know that when we look at somebody who actually has come from a working background and understand the needs of working people that's when working people benefit. And that's the contrast in this election how do you think his advisers are going to prepare him, not just the e. Jean carroll stuff, but but when she's going after him on going declaring bankruptcy and his money and his entire what you wrote an entire book on, his entire come up the new york look, i think that anytime people talk about his family, i think that that can be triggering for him and we have seen that any number of times he's not unused to these kinds of critiques. He has heard these before. He has heard this over the last nine years. I will say just as we get into what people should expect from this debate, i have no idea what is going to have. None of if any idea what's going to happen. But when we went into the debate or when everyone headed into the debate between president biden and donald trump, the expectation from biden's folks was if if if the focus is on trump and if trump is agitated and people, if we get under trump's skin, people will really see that and trump actually he delivered a fairly, at least for the first 45 minutes, pretty level performance and just sort of let biden be the focus i think there is going yes, i think that he will react to some of that. I think his team has talked to him about those kinds of things. I think they are more used to that than other things. I think that there is going to be a lot of focus on trying to show who the vice president is. And i think that's the side of the equation that a lot of people are going to be focused on. Yeah, it is it's gonna be a fascinating debate. Oh yeah. Yeah. And again, anybody who says they know what to expect i think it's incorrect. I mean, it is worth noting. He has he has debated more than she has more recently, and he has done more interviews than she has more recently. I don't know which forum in which format of prep will be more beneficial. Yeah. Maggie haberman, great reporting. Thank you for that up next here, democrats once called him darth vader, but now dick cheney is voting for them they're candidate in 2024, it is a remarkable turn. We're going to tell you all about it. Also, it was an emotional day in court in georgia. Were families of the school shooting and the victims saw the father and a son charged with their own eyes kamala harris, donald trump, the debate everyone's been waiting for follow cnn for complete coverage and exclusive pre and postdebate analysis. 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