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Trump Hush Money Trial

probative evidence and without it being overly prejudicial, because that's the balancing tests that he's talking about when he says that that sandoval gives him a wide latitude in terms of discretion and what he can do. the prosecution says these are all the things i want to talk about all the prior bad acts then the judge and then the defense of courses these we don't want you to talk about any of them. and then the judge balances it and says, okay, i'm going to sanitize some of them. so that's not overly prejudicial, but i'm going to let you talk about some of them because it wouldn't be fair to, for example, let donald trump get up there and testified that he he was not held in contempt in the judge and garan case. >> i'm going to throw it back to anderson who as far as i know, is the only person in the world who has interviewed karen mcdougal and stormy daniels and donald trump this told me that is probably the case i want to bring in stacy schneider. >> she's a criminal defense attorney& a former apprentice

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Trump on Trial New York v. Donald Trump

over for the today as we explained earlier for anyone just joining us. there was an alternate juror who needed to see the dentist. she's got a tooth ache and no judge is going to keep someone with a tooth ache listening to testimony or opening statements. they adjourned a lot earlier than expected. they were already going to adjourn at 2:00 because of the passover holiday which started at sun down tonight. people have to get home and do all their preparations. but we're joined now by mark short, former chief of staff to former vice president mike pence. talk to us about what you see as the political fallout from the kind of testimony that you're going to hear based on the opening statements. it's rather salacious. it's, at least from the prosecution side, the allegations about past behaviors and also what we heard from the judge today, leaving it up to the judge's discretion.

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The Last Word With Lawrence ODonnell

they leave to the sound discretion of the trial judge. it's really up to him. he's the man on the ground looking at the evidence. so you see this act after act, where judges have found that trump has abuseed the legal process or that trump has lied. his lawyers are objecting saying these are facts that have nothing to do with this case and they couldn't come in and that's just not what this argument is about. because as adam has done a great job of laying out. the only thing the government could use these prior instances for, at least on cross- examination is to attack donald trump's credibility so that they can then argue to the jury, you shouldn't believe anything he told you on the stand. any defenses he said this man has lied in the past. and you should judge his credibility today in light of all these other times he's been less than truthful. that should be enough to keep him off the stand. but with trump, who knows. >> right. and joyce, as an attorney did

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The Last Word With Lawrence ODonnell

sound discretion of the trial judges. it's up to him. he is the man on the ground looking at the evidence so you see this act after act where judges have found that trump has abused the legal process or that trump has lied. his lawyers are objecting saying these are facts that have nothing to do with this case and they couldn't come in and that's just not what this argument is about because as adam has done a great job the only thing that's government could use these prior instances for at least on cross is to attack donald trump's credibility to argue you shouldn't believe anything he told you on the stand. he has lied in the past and you should judge his credibility light of all the other times he has been less than truthful. that should be enough to keep him soff the stand but with trump who knows. >> did we learn anything this

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The Chris Wallace Show

decision that i think impedes on my freedom of expression ryan, whether it's in the streets around campus, to get back to my original question, where do we draw the line between anti-war protest and anti-semitism? well, certainly when it comes to private universities, they have wide discretion over which speakers they wanted to champion. this is something that folks on campus as i've been saying, for a great many years now. and i think that i'm talking about student protests. what wind is it just we don't like what's going on in gaza and we oppose it. and when does that become a look when you're dealing with harassment and intimidation, when you're using violent language, when you're disrupting classrooms and the larger student experience at columbia, when you have a large encampment at a place that is meant to be a commons for the larger student community. that is something that in my view, shouldn't be tolerated. and then beyond that, you have a lot more genuine harassment

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The Katie Phang Show

testify, the judge can allow the prosecutors to bring in a whole host of other bad acts and salacious activities on the part of the defendant that otherwise would not be able to be brought in. i do not think trump would perform well in cross- examination, either, in terms of his comportment and his respect for the judges and questioners. we have seen that with ireland, he has been admonished for that in the courtroom. to go even further south if he takes the witness stand, so i don't think you will do it. >> later on in the show, i will talk about the contempt hearing that is coming up on tuesday. taking a deep dive not only procedurally, but substantively, what to expect. i will ask you this because you have been in new york for a long time in the legal system. what could juan merchan do more than a $1000 fine for that gag order? >> look, the most serious penalty available within the discretion of the judge is to put the defendant, in this case, donald trump, behind bars for a period of time.

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The Katie Phang Show

gone. listen, we haven't seen anything, yet. maybe we will, but that april 1st gag order clearly put trump on notice that if he violates it, he could be sanctioned, pursuant to new york judiciary law 751. let's go back to section 751. it states that punishment for a contempt may be by fine, not exceeding $1000, or by imprisonment, not exceeding 30 days, or both, in the discretion of the court. the prosecution seeks a $1000 fine for each violation and for trump to have to remove the offending post. in the original motion for contempt, they asked the judge to warn trump that if he continued to violate the gag order that trump could be put in jail for up to 30 days. there is also the request for "other such relief" as the court deems just and proper. that opens the door for judge merchan to craft creative penalties for trump that would send the right message. on tuesday, judge merchan has the opportunity to protect the integrity of this trial. trump should be punished for his flagrant disregard of the court order. his willful violations but lives at risk and threatened the order the administration of justice. for someone like donald trump,

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Alex Witt Reports

of the year. super important because they are on the down side here. but the real decision is still up in the air until november. >> so this is $60.8 billion and peter you are indicating that it would be disbursed between now and december 31st but then what? the well could go dry? >> not sesinarily through december 31st, i don't know the exact details but normally this would be at the discretion of the administration. most of the money will go towards replennishing weapons that will go to ukraine. so we will replennish our stocks. there will be more money for the ukrainians to keep their lights on. there is a lot of money and up to the administration to parcel it out. if president biden loses the election, you can imagine he would try to get the money out

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The Source With Kaitlan Collins

remember, the only discretion that we got from the judge was used common sense at certain points. so people's versions of common sense are very different when it comes to what you do in terms of the media. so you should expect these right-wing or me social media followers to be pushing this forward to that point. excellent art of the segway. we talked about juror number 11 with the attorneys earlier. she had bedded. that's like trump's persona. teddy seems very selfish, very self-serving knowing trump as well as you do, how hardest him for him to sit there and listen to that from a job? for and he's from florida and aly moved to florida, but from a fellow new yorker. >> well, just remember that donald trump has not been a room with someone who's going to say no to him more insult him for decades now, he purposely surrounds himself by people with people who are even the people who now say that when he was in the administration, that they tried to stop them from doing things many of those are profiles encouraged because during the time they weren't actually trying to stop him. it was later. he surrounds himself with people who say yes to him,

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The Last Word With Lawrence ODonnell

this is well within the d.a.s discretion because they know what has happened. there like, we are not going to give you the opportunity. the part about counsel i find very interesting and that is where tom planchet has really lost credibility with the court because that is where if the judge sees that there is counsel, and then obviously the judge has lost confidence in todd blanche because that is where he said, i will give it to you, but you have to promise me. and that usually would work. one thing i wanted to notice about your opening about the complicity with fox in terms of how this works, that is the charge here. the charge here is complicity with the national enquirer. the idea that this has just happened here and this is what you are going to hear about,

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