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were made between the court, the nypd, and the secret service. for example, trump enters through a separate entrance to the courthouse. there is a street that is blocked off for his motorcade to approach that entrance. they use separate elevators. he has his own holding rooms, and when he appears for those press conferences that myrna noted, he comes through a set of darkened glass doors, beyond which are those holding rooms. however, there are some things that are going on here that definitely have been abused. at the first of which is the reserve seats. those are supposed to be for extra members of his defense team, and that is the way that the d.a.s office has used their side, the bright side, as you put it earlier. on trump's case, his is never rotating surrogate operation. those surrogates not only have their phones, but they are tweeting from the courtroom. we can prove that they are tweeting from the courtroom given the timestamps on their tweets. and they are often doing it to circumvent the gag order, which one of them admitted on another
probably the most likely outcome, especially when a defendant like former president trump is someone who has no criminal history, no record of convictions violence so all those things mitigate against having serving a harsher or or any sort of term of incarceration. >> however, here the president is probably made his own situation worse through his words and his actions by exhibiting really no remorse bye bye. exhibit outright contempt for the court, for the judge. judges are allowed to take those factors into consideration as well. so it's really a question as to how judge merchan is going to look at the overall picture and the pre-sentence report is really a foundation for the picture that's the report that gives him all of the basics. hey, graphical data and information about the community support that he's likely to receive contempt for the gag order as
this week two police officers who defended the u.s. capitol on january 6th were booed and jeered by republican lawmakers in pennsylvania as they were introduced as heros in the state house. some republican lawmakers even walked out. the standing ovation from democrats quickly drowned out republican attempts to disrespect the officers but that behavior is another example of how far the self- described party of law and order is willing to go to rewrite history and to please
>> when you're there, you're also communicating to her colleagues. >> yes, we sort of have a bizarre pony express situation now where we are allowed to use some electronics, so we can use our phones in the physical courtroom because there is a concern that somebody's going to take that even though we've been admonished not to, but we can use our laptops, so we can send messages via email or dm but we can use our phones so we are all sending color from the courtroom about tone, how things are going, what we are observing. i often focus on the jury. right away, the jury is looking at each other like some stuff is about to go down here. they have been a sleepy morning. everybody was feeling monday and all of its glory then bob costello gets on the stand in the afternoon and we are off to the races so because he was so contemptuous of the judge and the process and did not like being interrupted -- this is a former federal prosecutor who really felt like he should be respected and he thought the
table, so i you're a lawyer or i'm sorry, have to go asterisk. >> asterisk, not attorney consultant, but it but i would say that if anyone was under the illusion that the clarence thomas from 1991 on was ever going to be in a position to vote contrary to the way he's voted. i think the as bad as the optics are because obviously this is something that doesn't look good. i think it's one of those things where maybe the scandals, what's legal because they was under under no obligation, didn't break any rules. he didn't recognize laws. of course, this doesn't look good, but the idea that he's been the most consistent person on the bench throughout his his tenure. and so i don't think there's been a mystery as to how he's going to come down. certainly not on something like like a dobbs but i think the through line here is it's not just about thomas because there has been a broader campaign against the court to delegitimize a number of justices and really call into question whether the court is legitimate. is this in its current state. and that's cleaner expression. so i think the question of whether or not he did something illegal,
and welcome to hannity this toniay night tonight w have majr major breaking news fromng new york city not ago new york judge john merchan b issued a very bizarre, unusual letter notifying. orneys president donald trump's attorneys and the d.a.'s offic e about a social media post on the unified court public facebook page. now the post in question reads the following quote, my cousin is a juror . icte he says, trump is getting convicted. thank you, folks, for all of your hard work. the post was published the day before the verdict on wednesday, may 29th. in the letter, merchan did not indicate whether this post was valid or if the courts are investigating the matter. but this is by far very, very level and alarming development
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wife's connection to the effort to overturn the 2020 election. >> today, he submitted a revised disclosure filing revealing additional luxury travel to indonesia and to bohemian grove secret of vip retreating the california woods, all paid for by conservative billionaire friend harlan crow, reporting from propel boc propublica first revealed some of the gifts that he got in all of this coming on the heels of report from a watchdog group, fix the court identifying justice thomas as by far the biggest gift recipient on the court to the tune of more than $4 million worth over the last 20 years joining us, his former obama white house ethics are norm eisen and former federal judge nancy gardner. so judge gardner, you've been critical of justice thomas. what do you make of him just now officially disclosing those trips page before by harlan crow does that make the situation and needs it's too little? well, it makes it somewhat better, but it's still too little too late. i mean, here here, i have to pause. federal judges have a
issue one side thinks that the other side is a threat to democracy. both sides think the other is a threat to democracy. so it's somewhat cuts both ways in the minds of many in the public and the pull numbers show that when you look at the democracy numbers, congressman charlie dent, we appreciate your time. >> thank you thank you, your honor out front next, some democrats who were leaning towards donald trump, that's right democrats leaning towards donald trump are now having second thoughts after the former president was convicted in new york, i'm going to talk to one of those voters next plus an emotional day in court in the hunter biden gun trial, his daughter, trembling as he testified, hunter biden wiping away tears, what she told the jury and career government officials, walking away from their jobs because of what they claim is an attempt to to downplay the 4s in gaza sleep sealed the sheiks difference is real from the light to the