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For now, it s ultimately going to be the court of law tha determines whether donald trum is guilty of these charges h anticipates have been read t him, on tuesday afternoon. alex vaughn hillyard, in wes palm beach many thanks. let s bring in lisa nbc legal analyst, along wit peter baker, chief white house correspondent with the new yor times, and an nbc politica analyst. he is also the coauthor of the divider, a trump in the whit house. as i welcome you both, i guess that is going to make me start with, you peter. you spent time interviewin trump at mar-a-lago for that book what do you think is on hi mind this afternoon as he getting closer to this lon trip home to interact with the justice system how will he approach the nex couple days? well, look, i think a coupl things one, of, course is all the indications from mar-a-lago. you, know lashing out at everyone for how this happened he s very mad about th prosecutor, and all that you, know the other thing we have to keep in mind ....
Judge it, to suggest they know all the details. democrats, starting with joe biden himself, have taken th approach of, let s let the process work this - they can do the same thing you don t have to be crazy i this moment. they can say, look, i believ in donald trump s innocence. under the law in order that we have in the united states, h will have an opportunity to be exonerated i look forward to that day that is going with republicans to embrace the big, but also support law and order. is not what they re doing. so concerns are growing,, certainly, over potentia unrest one of the key figures in th case, stormy daniels, gave som new reaction detailing threats she was facing take a listen to this. especially scary becaus trump himself is incitin violence, that encouraging at, and getting away with that it just takes one crazy support, or things that they re doing you know, god s work, or, yo know, protecting democracy it s, i mean, i m looking at a ....
His fellow - without a single fact back o their position you may have heard me, mayb i m a today, it seems very sel serving what they re doing i, mean was that what it s about? a look at where those tw representatives you just mentioned, kissinger cheney, work where they are now. they re not in congress. kissinger, by his choice he decided to retire the word is exactly right self surveyed. it s precisely right you know, any republican who crosses that, whatever it, i 25% of americans who believe that donald trump as a demigod came incapable of doing wrong, they put their own current peril. and let s 12 for just te seconds on the hypocrisy o this, right? the chair the prosecution, michael cohen, right, michae cohen turned on them the chair of the prosecution - by the, why this is the same crowd, i m old enough to remember when this crowd - remember the chance of lock he up hillary clinton had to go to jail, she didn t need to b charged, but she did need to b ....
You can, if you re jim jordan, that makes you angry all jim jordan needs to do i to support his leader. that s all he needs to do. but, the other way to look a this, of, course yes, this never happened, because we v never had a president who lied constantly, who, obviously, to the horrible thing, going back to claiming to grab women genitals, and for the last ten minutes it turns out, no one, including, we said this before, no one is above the law. there are two ways to thin about this what, again, is really scary here and you know, it s no enough to win elections, because donald trump never won a popular majority he lost the presidency he lost the house of representatives. he lost the senate yet, somehow, they can t break the fever. somehow, they, just by colleagues, the three chairman you re referring to, they can do what adam kissinger and representative cheney dead, an say, this is madness not only is it ethically wrong we will lose elections they re shenzhou-14, and all ....
Be the nominee look, i think in a general election, and i absolutely agree with susan, and sununu and sununu, and others there was no way that donald trump could win. if he is the nominee, he wil be running on civil war themes you will be the agent of retribution trying to tear the country apart. even if you take all the nonsense around donald trump out of that kind of messaging, voters don t want to hear that message. voters want to hear an aspirational message every cycle about health care, and education, ellen, ordering the economy. they don t want to hear abou civil worn retribution, whic would be donald trump message. ultimately, and unsuccessful one, and a general election. it sounds to me like you ve given a thorough explanation a to why will barr made th statement that democrats wan donald trump to run, you know? yeah. i will say this. democrats have been very sober in this moment republicans have rushed to interfere with the case, t ....