a very important friday. we will reconvene the courthouse gang for this hour to go over what we have all been through and, alex, just a word about a banana republic. i despise the term and have despised it for so long now because it carries the assumption that countries that grow bananas, and we know where they are, somehow inherently have inferior governments to ours. which we have proven many times before is not true and nothing proves that better than the trump years and, oh, by the way, we grow bananas in hawaii. agriculturally and ethically, great points, lawrence, as always. thanks, alex. have a great show. thanks. well, it was a one word sentence that changed donald trump s life. he wasn t expecting to hear that word yesterday. at 4:15 p.m., judge merchan told defendant donald trump and his lawyers, the prosecutors in the courtroom, quote, i m going to excuse the jury about 4:30. we will give them a few more minutes and then we will excuse them. donald trum
case. and he said as much on cnn. i saw that clip because andrew called my attention to it through a tweet and the first thing that struck me was the arrogance that because this is america we don t have the burden of proof. that s true, but if they wanted to show the jury the prosecution didn t meet its burden, they had any number of means to try and demonstrate that and the answer was solely bob costello. as for the rest of his statement, he told on himself when he said it is not our job to fill the holes in the prosecution s case. that is a concession that had they called keith schiller or even the convicted murderer, allen weisselberg on his second stint at rikers island right now, that those people would have aided the prosecution. pr