american news around the world? well, here in the uk, in london, we are in the middle of a general election campaign to elect a new prime minister. you would think that nothing could blow that off the air waves. but for 24 hours after the verdict came in from lower manhattan that the corral court there on the 15th floor, it did. and all the talk was of donald trump, the first former president to have been found guilty of a criminal offense, a convicted felon. and that was just enormous news, particularly coupled with the possibility that in november he will be back inside the white house, win the election and be back inside the white house the following january. so, it is enormous news. and i think that you think the appetite for news about donald trump has always been absolutely immense. he kind of is just there is this attraction to him and anything that happens. and around the world, it was exactly the same.
Begins to collapse. Now, with a panel of 12 jurors and six alternate jurors assembled and empanelled with a Purpose And Mission of determining trumps criminal fate we are left to wonder if the Title Wave crashing around us will get us. It is that we will get to with our favorite experts and friends. To with our favorite experts and friends. Msnbc legal analyst, but we start with my Friend And Colleague msnbc legal correspondent Lisa Ruben just came out of the courtroom for us. The courtroom we are in, on the 15th floor. One of the more dreary places i have been in a courthouse t. Is wood paneled but it has no art whatsoever. There are more cords than there are anything else and they are stapled to the wall. And the one thing that it is as
point former chief of staff of the department of homeland security, miles taylor is here but we start with my friend and colleague, msnbc legal correspondent, lisa rubin, she has just come out of the courtroom forest. the courtroom that we are in on the 15th floor here is one of the more dreary places i ve ever been in a courthouse. it is woodpaneled, but it has no hearts whatsoever. there are more courts than there are anything else, stapled to the wall point the one thing that is says in this courtroom very clearly is in god we trust and get that very pedestrian dreary courtroom is where something really extraordinary happened this afternoon because judge rochon had to go through the failings of three motion letters that the defense has buried him under and most of them are about things that have already been litigated and if not litigated once they have been litigated twice so setting his rulings on things like whether or not evidence can be precluded on grounds of presidential im
outside. we reported on a little bit of the back and forth between trump s legal team and the prosecutors about the evidence should trump take the stand, but i really want to understand what happened in the final minutes where the judge seemed to lose his patience with trump s lawyers wanting to relitigate every individual motion. take us inside that. reporter: that s right. the courtroom that we re in on the 15th floor here is one of the more dreary places i have ever been in a courthouse. it is wood panelled, but it has no art whatsoever. there are more cords than there are anything else. they are stapled to the wall. and the one thing it says in this courtroom clearly is in god we trust. yet, that very pedestrian dreary courtroom is where something extraordinary happened this afternoon. because the judge had to goo through the premotion letters that the defense has buried him under. most of them are about things that have already been
on this jury in terms of what they can consume from media and otherwise, i want to bring in evan perez here though as well. this conversation because he has been following this quote so closely along and having you know that this is going to be a very big moment here to have a jury and paneled and the trial. and just moments ago on the fifth 15th floor of this building, you had to press the united states have a full jury in front of them, right? i made for but for someone who has been attacking the entire process to sit there very closely, paying attention it appears especially today, he was paying attention, especially when there were people who who had opinions about him positive or negative? a look, i think this is a pretty impressive process that we ve just witnessed, right? we had some doubts during the week laura, whether we were going to be able to get this jury done, this jury selection process done this week and this judge has we have to we have to say that has it can full c