A working mother. Jen psaki, the last word. The 11th hour with Stephanie Ruhle starts right now. Tonight, defendant trump is held in contempt again. s latest penalty and the new threat of jail time from the judge. With no agreement on a ceasefire, israel resumes strikes in southern gaza. Is a deal still possible . Atop Georgia Republican says his vote for joe biden. What that could mean in a crucial swing state. Good evening once again. I am Stephanie Ruhle. We are 183 days away from the election, and in a New York City courtroom, judge merchan got tough with donald trump about the gag order in his election interference trial. The judge find him another 1000 bucks and threatened him that he would throw him in joyal if there were more violations. The day continued with testimony from former trump employees about how the money flowed from donald trump to his former fixer Michael Cohen. Here is my colleague Vaughn Hillyard with more. Reporter tonight, former President Trump facing a new threat of jail time at his Hush Money Trial after his 10th Violation of the judges gag order. He has taken away my constitutional right to speak. Reporter the judge addressing the possibility of putting him behind bars over future violations. The magnitude of such a decision is not lost on me. You are the former president of the United States and possibly the next president as well. Adding, smudges i do not want to impose a jail sanction, i will, if necessary and appropriate. Frankly, our constitution is more important than jail. Its not even close. Ill do that sacrifice any day. Reporter the judge finding him an additional 1000 for the jury in deep blue manhattan saying its 95 democrat. The judge said the former president wrongfully called into question the integrity of the jury. Mr. Trump has pleaded not guilty to lowlevel Felony Charges for allegedly disguising reimbursements to Michael Cohen for Hush Money Payments to Stormy Daniels has Legal Expenses in his companys internal business records. If convicted, mr. Trump could face anywhere from four years in prison to just probation. Taking the stand, jeffrey, who oversaw the accounting department. Her to the prosecutions case of falsifying business records. Testifying about invoices, describing the reimbursements as Legal Expenses saying he was ordered by another Trump Organization executive to reimburse cohen for the 130,000 payment to Stormy Daniels. Most from trumps personal account from and cross exam he said he had not spoken to mr. Trump directly about the business records. Another trump employee, deborah, testifying about the process of signing checks including two cohen which were shown to the jury saying if he did not want to sign it, he did not sign it. It was signed in sharpie and it was black and thats what he uses. Lets get smarter with the help of our leadoff panel. A staff writer at the atlantic and in smb contributor. Political investigation reported for the guardian and this guy has been in the courtroom day in and day out. We are blessed to use a week of former new york prosecutors civilrights attorney. You go, because you were in the room or the courthouse may have been in the overflow room. What stuck out to you today. When you saw the judge look squarely at donald trump and schooled him like a schoolboy for violating the gag order, what was that like . Its surreal when you see Judges School defendants. It was clear from the judge to say if you continue to violate the gag order, we will consider putting you in jail. It couldnt have been said a more clear terms and the look on todd blanche and the Defense Lawyers for trump, they were not pretty. In terms of the trial, it was significant because the first part of the morning, today we have gone into the testimony that moved the caisson. Will talk about that in a second. I want to talk about the gag order. Charles, the judge looked at trump and said if you do that again, he knows trumble violated again. Is it that big of a threat we are facing . It is in the reason why is because when youre talking about the Clock Ticking and donald trump, the estimation is two more weeks. Donald trump does not have a whole lot of leeway he has to walk on. Its important that judge merchan laid it out this way because once you cross that threshold, you do not go back. Once you say, now im putting you in jail, every other offense pass that is jail or more jail. You do go back to fines. Judge merchan in his calculus around how this will land and how disruptive it could be to the proceedings and he is thought to tried to give him as many warnings so once the threshold has been crossed, theres no excuse. I warned you. Mckay, the judge laid it out. He acknowledged what he called the magnitude of jailing a former possibly future president. What was your reaction when the judge lays it out there. I realize the impact this could have on the election, on the campaign and maybe on himself one day. That was the thing that struck me. I am not a legal expert and i am a political expert and i cover the country. When you look at polls around the trial, they are what you would expect. Roughly half the country thinks trump did something illegal and the others does not think he did. Have the country said they think its fair and the other half says its not. Give or take a few points in a breaks along partisan lines. To me the most important number, there was a poll last week, and found that 55 of americans are not following this trial. What could change that . More than anything else, a jail sanction. In some ways, its kind of remarkable we are in a president ial Election Year and most of the country is not paying attention to a criminal trial for one of the major nominees. That said, i think that would change and in a lot of unpredictable ways. The judge was acknowledging that. He understands this would be a seismic event in american political history, and i dont think anybody who tells you they know how that will play out, what the consequences would be, is telling the truth. I dont think any of us know but it would be moment is. I dont think the judge will make decisions based on the politics of this. I think he must be aware that the world is watching. This will be a historic moment if he ends up putting a major Party President ial nominee in jail, even if just for a few hours. Im not sure i believe half the country does not believe trump did anything wrong. I think a whole lot of him think he did something wrong and they do not care. Charles, what would jail time look like. It could be rikers or this holding cell in the courtroom, which ive never seen it, but in my mind, its like the Naughty Roman Church where the crying babies have to go if they cannot behave. Escalation. He would be put in the back and he would be by himself for a specified amount of time. Maybe not a full day. Maybe a few hours. Thats the type of escalation. I dont know the first time that judge merchan takes the step that is putting him on a d. O. C. Bus and sending him to rikers island. I think its important to know . Where did he wear a jumpsuit . It would depend how long he was there. And he would have Secret Service within. I should not laugh. He would have Secret Service. Prosecutors have not asked for that as a penalty because they understand that they themselves could be as two of her recommendation, and that puts them in a difficult position of, do we want to ask for what we would for any other defendant . Do we want to ask you something later . How will that make us look. Theres a calculation with that as well. Everyone is trying to answer the question which is once we get to the point where jail is involved, what does that mean . I think it starts in the back in that small room where he would sit for a few hours and it would escalate from there with increased amount of time if we get to the point, if we ever get to the point, that he were sent to rikers. If you were judge merchan or alvin bragg or alvin braggs team, would you be afraid if he comes for you if he wins . I think the calculation has long since been done. You have to have made that decision and be all in. That your job as a prosecutor. If you bring this case way back before you go in front of the grand jury, you know what the potential implications are, because you are aware of how popular this man is and you are aware of how rapid and insane his followers are and the extent they will go to to protect this man. And what he will do. And what he will do to stoke the fears and keep the fire fanned. By the time you brought the indictment, you know what you are up against and you made that decision to be all in. Lets talk about the testimony. Two former trump employees and they were not lowlevel employees. Long time, Strategic Partners in the small organization. What stuck out . Jeffrey mcconney for sure. Jeffrey mcconney was the x controller at the Trump Organization. He was on the 26 floor which is where trump has his office a Michael Cohen once had his office. The kids are on the 25th floor. To give an idea of how one side he is and the whole operation, its a small family business. Its run by a small family business. Its important to understand that. He was involved in facilitating the repayments to Michael Cohen. He ran through two big things. One was explaining the handwriting of Allen Weisselberg on the Bank Statement from Michael Cohens Shell Company he used to pay Stormy Daniels lawyer. That was interesting. If you only have Michael Cohen describing the handwriting, you might say you dont know that Allen Weisselbergs handwriting. They are backing it up. When mcconney says it, there is a degree of credibility that any on the witness could bring in this case. It kind of shows there is this two times for tax. This is fascinating because he is basically saying that these Legal Expenses were treated as Legal Expenses. The prosecutor has elicited from mcconney a key piece of testimony which was have you and your 35 years of service at the Trump Organization scene is where you have dealt with expenses like this . And he goes no. To me, learning about all of that only underscores the criminality of the Trump Business. Donald trump made his political career by saying he is not a politician. He is a real businessman with real business experience, and he could run the country like he did the Trump Organization. So we should talk about the Trump Organization because at this point this guy will have to pay hundreds of millions of dollars in civil fraud, a verdict from a civil fraud case. We know key witnesses now, Michael Cohen was a Trump Organization vp before he spent two years in jail for tax evasion and other crimes. And the former cfo Allen Weisselberg who was in the Trump Organization for decades and decades is now in jail for the second time. With all the conduct tied to what he did working for trump. Mckay, is there anything left of the Trump Business reputation at this point for those out there who say, im into him because hes a great business guy . Yeah, i dont think so. I have to admit i have always been skeptical of hardcore Trump Supporters who say they support him because they want a president , ceo. I believe there are a lot of people in america who feel that way. I have heard that for decades. Those are people who supported mitt romney, actual super successful businessman. Writes. I think what donald trump is actually doing with this trial, because i think youre right, if there is anyone left who is thinking of trump is a great businessman, if theyre paying attention, and all the investigations, they will see the kind of a side of trump the Genius Businessman is collapsing. What he is doing is setting himself up as a murder. This is what he has always done so well is saying that people who are coming after me are really coming after you. The prosecutors who were hounding me, its because they want to get to you. You even saw him today and his comments after the trial or the court proceedings, he said i am willing to sacrifice myself for the sake of the constitution. He is acting like he is the man standing between these extremely political, nefarious forces and the prosecution and the american people. That is what the signal he is sending with this posturing around the trial. I do not think anybody could sincerely still believe that he is a Genius Businessman and thats why they are supporting him. Posturing is generous. Charles, and this mcconney testimony, he said most of the money used to repay Michael Cohen came from trumps personal account, not the business. How significant is that . Extremely. Everything we have heard has the ring of Michael Cohen at the center of everything at donald trump has been separated as much as they can. The defense love that because they would like to posit a situation where they could say, Michael Cohen acted on his own volition without instruction from donald trump. The significance of that testimony that this came from Donald Trumps account were donald trump was the one who had signing power and he signed those checks. He wasnt always signing checks. He reviewed things and would send things back, and that makes him invested in connected to the actual crime. We finally got here and it connects them in a way that has not occurred before such very big for the prosecution. Hes the guy with the shortest Alligator Arms in the history of humanity. The fact that he is digging deep in his pocket, ill go with thank you well. He never pays for anything. The fact he was paying out of his personal account . Red flag. Thank you all for starting us off. I want to check in with the dj. Trump media stock, lucky him, it ended just over 49 bucks a share, up over 2. 5 to start the week. 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