I give amazing spongebaths. Can i get a room . [ chuckling ] chefs kiss. Im ari melber signing off from this special hour. Keep right here on msnbc. I guess because donald trump does apparently whatever i tell him to do, he did not glare at me again in the courtroom today after i described Donald Trumps weird and childish and trumpian attempt to, i guess, intimidate me by throwing his angry glare at me when he was leaving the courtroom yesterday, i said right here on the program last night that it was a mistake for him to do that. I said that his apparently useless handyman who hangs out in the front row of the courtroom Boris Epshteyn should have told trump not to make a big deal out of that odonnell guy being in the courtroom yesterday. Donald trump shouldnt have given me that pleasure. He shouldnt have done that in such a goofy and public way that the New York Times felt to report it right away on the live update of the trial. No one in the courtroom had seen donald trump do anything like that. After that item made a little bit of stir on social media yesterday, we have a right to assume that donald trump, as i know hes done many times in the past, tuned into this show at 10 00 last night to see what i would say about that incident. Unfortunately, he took my advice, the advice boris should have given him yesterday. Today, even though i was sitting in an even more prominent position on the aisle in the middle of the courtroom where donald trump couldnt possibly miss me every time he walked past me in and out of the courtroom today, he did everything he could possibly do to not look at me. I know he knows where i was sitting, because i was way too obvious. I was giving him my look straight up at him. I know that i was within his peripheral vision, because whenever his peripheral vision got close, he immediately twisted it away in the other direction. He made sure that his eyes never met my eyes. He just want going to give me that gift again. Other reporters in the room noticed his conscious choice not to do that, especially after yesterday, because it was so obvious that he made such ap effort yesterday to look at me that todays effort, not looking at me, was just as obvious with me sitting there looking up at him in exactly the same way i did yesterday. To him, im sure it looked like i was gloating. Thats probably the way he interpreted it. A couple of reporters told me after todays session he was afraid to look at me today. I dont think he was afraid. I think he just got good advice right here at 10 00 p. M. Last night. Todays courtroom was a tale of two young women describing their work in government. One described her dedication to a difficult job done honorably in pursuit of an ideal. And the other was hope hicks. Hope hicks was preceded on the Witness Stand by a young woman who appeared to be about the same age hope hicks was when she started working with president ial candidate donald trump. I wish i could tell you the young womans name that any parent or Fiction Writer would be proud to create, but i wont tell you her name because homicidal Trump Supporters are all too eager to threaten the lives of all of us who they despise. They especially like to do that on social media. And that young womans job in the District Attorneys Office is study social media and prepare social media for use as evidence in criminal trials. That job became the worst job in the District Attorneys Office when a year and a half ago she was assigned to the investigation of donald trump and had to read as many as 10,000 Social Media Posts, mostly by donald trump, but also by Michael Cohen and others involving this case. Imagine having to keep up with In Realtime The Poison donald trump Spews On Social Media every day and having to reach back in time for trump tweets that are relevant to this criminal investigation as far back as 2016 and beyond. She has saved about 1500 posts on instagram, twitter, truth social and other sites for the District Attorneys trump evidence file. She testified that she has analyzed about 30 social media accounts in the process. Donald trumps Criminal Defense Lawyers tried to object to her testimony, but laid the groundwork for introducing Social Media Posts by donald trump. But her testimony was so technically flawless and so convincing to judge juan merchan that the judge overruled every objection the Trump Lawyers raised to try to block her testimony and her introduction of the exhibits. She won. She beat the Trump Lawyers at the game of admitting evidence. She described the elaborate and exacting process she had to go through with each piece of social media to fit the complex requirements of introducing even a single tweet as an exhibit in court. And thanks to her painstaking adherence to those legal rules and requirements, the injure was shown this tweet by donald trump. I never said im a perfect person, nor pretended to be someone that im not. Ive said and done things i regret, and the words released today on this more than a decadeold video are one of them. Anyone who knows me knows these words dont reflect who i am. I said it. I was wrong and i apologize. October 8th, 2016, that was the one and only time donald trump has ever apologized in his life. It was immediately after the access Hollywood Tape was released in october 2016 in the last weeks of Donald Trumps president ial campaign. The thousands of hours work done by that young Paralegal Assistant in the District Attorneys Office to allow the introduction of exhibits like that paid off today. Her dedication and professionalism was obvious to everyone in the courtroom, especially judge merchan. She is the lowestpaid person who has spoken in that courtroom. She will never be applauded, never publicly thanked. She doesnt get to fly on private jets like hope hicks did or air force one like hope hicks did. This witness was one of the unsung heros in the machinery of american justice. Thats her job, justice. That is one of the motivators for putting in those long hours. That is the ideal she gets to pursue in her work, justice. The d. A. s office does not pay her enough. Jobs like that never pay enough. But she gets to take home more than a paycheck. She gets to take home her pride. Pride, the thing hope hicks sold to donald trump. At 11 23 a. M. An assistant District Attorney said, the people call hope hicks. Dressed in a black suit, she walked past the Defense Table in arms reach of donald trump without ever looking at him, and he did not look at her as she walked by. She began her testimony with a bit of biography saying she was a 2010 graduate of Southern Methodist university. She told her first lie minutes into her testimony. Some people will think lie is too harsh a word for what im about to read to you, but it does show what a Casual Trumpian relationship with the truth hope hicks lives by. She described donald trump under oath as, quote, a very good multitasker and a very hard worker. He is not and never has been a hard worker. Everyone knows that isnt true. But most of the press corps on the Campaign Trail and in the white house easily accepted those lies, lies of that size from hope hicks all the time without any of those lies diminishing their view of her in any way. She was on the Witness Stand, as she has always been, the picture of privilege. She laughed out loud in the courtroom at the very idea of donald trump offering her a job. She was unqualified to be Press Secretary for a president ial campaign. That is what privilege looks like. She had never been a Press Secretary for anything. She had no idea how to be a president ial Campaign Press secretary. Like everyone on the Trump Campaign, no Serious Campaign would hire them to do anything. Hope hicks lives on Donald Trumps side of our politics where people rant endlessly about attributing things like the failures of boeings manage of and maintenance of aircraft as some kind of liberal hiring campaign that gives jobs to unworthy candidates. There has never been a more unworthy campaign for hope hicks job in the white house than hope hicks. She didnt need either one of those jobs. She was born rich in connecticut. She could have tried to do something more worthy with her life or at least do something that wasnt harmful. But she chose to help donald trump become president of the United States. Thats what she chose to do. That job came with a motto, deny, deny, deny. Thats what she wrote in an email when the Trump Campaign team of incompetents was trying to respond to the Washington Post reporting which revealed the infamous access Hollywood Video in which donald trump is shown bragging about his favorite method of Sexual Assault. That was transcript of the video in that email but not the video itself. Question, did you read mr. Trump the email you received from mr. Fahrenthold . Did you hand him the email for him to read . Yes, thats my recollection. What did he say . He said that didnt sound like something he would say. So on the basis of that lie told to hope hicks by donald trump that that didnt sound like something he would say, hope hicks told the team that the strategy was deny, deny, deny, meaning lie, lie, lie. Hope hicks did a lot of that, lying in her testimony. She quoted donald trump lying to her. Anyone who knows donald trump knows that what he said on the access Hollywood Video does indeed sound like something he would say. Hours later the video was out there and hope hicks could watch him say it herself. So the jury Heard Hope Hicks describe donald trump lying directly to her. Quote, he said that that didnt sound like something he would say . That was very harmful line of testimony about donald trump. Juries are always wondering if this witness is telling the truth, would this person lie to us. And now they know that donald trump lied to hope hicks right there in that line about that video. When that video came out proving that donald trump said every word that was in that transcript, that was enough for john mccain. Senator mccain turned against donald trump then. That was enough for republican Speaker Of The House paul ryan, who cancelled a Campaign Event with donald trump. Republican congressman Jason Chaffetz came on this program and retracted his endorsement of donald trump In The Name Of his daughters that very night. Republicans were rushing away from donald trump because of what they heard him say and do on that access Hollywood Video. But not hope hicks, not hope hicks. If you didnt quit then, when do you quit . Hope hicks answer was never. Hope hicks was there in washington on the white house payroll on january 6th, making no attempt at all to get donald trump to do the right thing during the attack on the capitol, to stop that attack. What did she do after january 6th . Nothing. She eventually did an interview with the January 6th Committee where she said as little as she possibly could and offered no significant help to the committee, very little they could even use in their public revelation of their evidence. Compare that to Cassidy Hutchinson. They both took the same oath of office as white house employees to support and defend the constitution of the United States against all enemies, foreign and domestic. Hope hicks, who had direct access to donald trump whenever she wanted it, didnt say a word to donald trump on january 6th, didnt even try to. While Cassidy Hutchinson was desperately trying to get her boss mark meadows, the white house chief of staff, to convince donald trump to stop the attack on the capitol. Cassidy hutchinson became the January 6th Committees most important witness. Cassidy hutchinson has been trying to convince the American People not to vote for donald trump. Nothing like that from hope hicks. Ive never seen anyone in the white house treated the way the White House Press corps treated hope hicks. Talk about privilege. There is video of white house Reporters Social Kissing her as theyre greeted at White House Press briefings. That doesnt happen unless you are hope hicks. She cried. Thats the big news of the day out of the courtroom. No one knows why she cried at the very beginning of cross examination. I heard three different theories for the tears from reporters on the way out of the courtroom today, and youll hear some theories during this hour from people who were in the courtroom with me today and are more perceptive about that. I dont know why she cried, and i dont care. I know she didnt cry for the 628 children who were held at the southern border in custody by donald trump, who was then unable to find their parents and reunite them. Hope hicks didnt cry for them. And we can be sure that hope hicks has never cried when her motto of deny, deny, deny took hold in the Supreme Court deciding to deny women a right they had for 50 years in this country, longer than hope hicks has been alive. Im sure she didnt cry for that 10yearold girl in ohio who had to leave the state after being raped to receive Abortion Services in indiana. Hope hicks kept working for donald trump to become the president of the United States after she knew that deny, deny, deny was a lie, a lie she told. Hope hicks watched the access Hollywood Video and thought, yes, yes, thats who i want to keep working for, thats who i want to be president of the United States. Im going to continue to work as hard as i can to make that man on that Video Bragging about Sexual Assault become the next president of the United States. Thats my mission. And that is who hope hicks wanted to be reelected as president of the United States after he recommended Injecting Bleach into your veins to cure covid. Thats who hope hicks wanted to keep in the white house. We had a monster in the presidency not because of donald trump, but because of the people who voted for donald trump and because of the people who worked for Donald Trumps campaign to get him there. You get monsters like Donald Trump Thanks to people like hope hicks. People who white house Reporters Social Kiss in the White House Press briefing room, reporters whose acceptance of donald trump is warmed by the charms of hope hicks. Witness hope hicks get off the Witness Stand today without being asked the most important question of her life. She wasnt asked that question, because it wasnt an important question in this trial. And that question is, why didnt you quit . Why didnt you quit that president ial campaign in 2016 when it was so obvious to all of us that you were working for a pathological liar and a dangerous person . Why didnt you quit is a much more important question than why did she cry. Well review todays Trial Evidence for the rest of the hour with people who were in the courthouse with me this week and saw it all. Theyll join us. All theyll join us. Deep down, i knew something was wrong. Since my fatigue and lightheadedness would come and go, i figured it wasnt a big deal. 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