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a message in israel. it s important that the united states is committed to making sure everything possible is done to protect civilians. tonight, the calls for a humanitarian pause as the bombardment continues. then the entire world is watching this, and they re laughing about what s going on. day two for some number two. if the gag order grows in new york, meanwhile out west trump incited a violent mob to attack our capital. to stop the peaceful transfer of power, the case to throw trump off the ballot wraps up in colorado. trump claims after all that, he has the right to be president again. and an unbelievable case study and how to succeed in congress without really trying. corruption is a real problem in this country. and i have seen [laughter] it is. it is. when all in starts right now. good evening from new york, i m chris hayes. today, america s top diplomats secretary of state antony blinken flee to israel for a second time in two and a ha ....
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. donal ....
guys, we re going to win this thing. i promise you we re going to win it because we haven t done anything wrong. oh, eric. you re not paying attention. you have already lost, remember? in september, when the judge ruled that you and your brother and your daddy lied for years on your company s financial statements. this trial, it s really just about penalties. also tonight, president biden visits grieving families in lewiston, maine, as we learn more about missed warning signs before the gunman killed 18 people. i m jason johnson in for joy reid. we begin tonight with another volatile day in the $250 million civil fraud trial against the trump crime family and their company. today, a new york judge ruled that a limited gag order on donald trump should also apply to his attorneys after he said they made inappropriate remarks about his principal law clerk. judge arthur engoron s order said the lawyers for the former president and his adult sons are, quote, prohibited ....
, the better it is for the defense and so, donald trump and todd blanche were nearly giddy that the jury was going to go home for a second day. without reaching a verdict. donald trump that he was going home without a verdict today. he just had about 15 minutes to kill, and what we saw was a donald trump at that defense table we ve never seen before. he was joking, laughing, smiling with todd blanche. they were chatting and laughing almost incessantly. todd blanche laughing so hard at one point doubling over so that his four head almost touch the table in front of him. they thought they were going home today without a verdict. it was almost a jubilant, giddy donald trump but that changed very quickly when the judge merchan came back to inform the parties that the jury had reached verdict. the jury had a verdict after only nine hours of deliberation, which is not a long deliberation for a 34 count indictment and so donald trump watched his jury under the courtroom fo ....
Verdict he was talking about a wage theft case. this is someone speaking for his office and not just one case and his focus and attention was a testament to the fact that this was his office doing a case that they thought needed to be brought. andrew, with your experience in the justice department as a prosecutor, consider for us for a moment what alvin bragg was confronted with when he saw the evidence developed in this case and he had to sit and make his own decision as the elected district attorney in manhattan, with all of the responsibility that comes from that. he was in a position to say yes or no in going forward with this prosecution and he didn t make that decision until he had ....