environment. th judge says he s attacked the judicial system, our s of justice and the rule of law his entire life. and this to him is the grand finale. it s of surpassing importance, but it doesn t change the fact he s already laid waste to our democracy and our elections and our rule of the law. he s saying this is a big act for him. this is not him getting away with prosecution. this is him actually proving he can beat the system. that s certainly what he s trying to do. not only what is in this remarkable article that talks about him viewing these prosecutions as a real boom to the campaign, but the data in terms of his fundraising shows that it was a real boom to his campaign. this point about the rule of law, i think it s a term we band about a lot.
extraordinarily attentiv through the day. they seemed racked throughou the day, whether that watching the judge, watching e jean carroll, i should say, th judge himself was really policing what was going on today. one of the things he was annoyed by, tacopina s repetitive miss. he basically said, miste tacopina, the fact that miss carroll did not call the polic is about as well known and notorious is the fact that the yankees have not been in the world series for the last 20 years. have i got that wrong, basebal fans ever will complain on twitter tonight. they would go a lot faster, he said to tacopina, if we cut the repetition, if we stop asking argumentative questions lisa rubin, it s great to have you here, it s great to have you in that courtroom. you ve been doing great work, really appreciate it thanks, chris still ahead, as fox news faces actual ratings pressure from the right, you have to wonder, what a talk across and do to get firesod abruptly? new york times reporter wi
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responded very well to wha everyone knew would be a aggressive examination b tacopina let s talk about anothe point that joe tacopina kept trying to make, and that was this idea of their not being a specific date attached to th alleged incident and the not filing a police report absolutely. now, he said time and time again that she did not file police report. as a point that was made earlier, that was one of the points that really got to th judge, he said that he mad that point 20 to 30 times. the judge joked that it is one of the most notorious fact other then the new york he angles not winning the world series veneers he was essentially saying, get on with it as to the point about the date e. jean carroll has said for a long time that it was in the mid 1990s, even 1995 or 1996
that was the conclusion of a new ten-page letter from trump s lawyers nothing to see here, just shut the whole thing down now criminal defense attorneys regularly appear before judges and argue that the charges against their clients should b dropped or that an investigation infringes on their clients rights but trump s lawyers did no address that in a letter to th judge, nor did they addres that letter to the departmen of justice they didn t send it to a judge they didn t send it to do th doj. that plea for relief fro donald trump s legal team wa addressed to a republica member of congress pecifically to the republica chair of the house intelligenc committee. and that is highly unusual but trump s legal team i asking here for congress t interfere with an independen criminal investigation in their letter, the lawyers argue that it wasn t trump s fault that this classified documents ended up a mar-a-lago it was white house staffers an deep state government employee who were to blame. bu