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you are watching "the beat" with ari melber. we're covering this conclusion of donald trump fraud trial. there he was in court, the second time he's been in the courtroom this week, instead of campaigning in iowa. it's a telling sign of how personal this all is to trump, as you can see him there. he basically has opted out of the traditional campaign activities. he was not required to attend, but that's what it looked like in the courtroom today. we also heard from the attorney general who has been on something of a streak here. she already won the fraud finding portion of this. now ...

Desantis was at 12. in the last few weeks they've been tied, and a lot of times desantis was up. meanwhile, ron desantis is almost ignoring her. >> james, you've got to remember, when desantis has a polls finish, let's just say a 10, you have to then remember it's on top of the lifted boots, right? so it's really -- it's a desantis shoe joke. >> oh, i see, yes. >> there it is. >> i know. you almost tripped over me yesterday. i was running about chris christie, and all my colleagues wanted to know, what shoes does he wear. >> we deal with such serious stuff, we had fun.