attorney general that it s not sufficient. so we could be back to the situation where trump is without a bond and a real threat for the seiture of his assets. monday is going to be a big old day. adam, joyce, thank you both very much for coming to the last word. and coming up i m not sure what has been stranger about this week. seeing the first former american president face a criminal trial or reading the reports about that same former american president repeatedly falling asleep during his criminal trial. jennifer and michael will try to help me make sense of all of this. that s next. is some freakin torque. what? horsepower keeps you going, but torque gets you going. what happened to my inner child craving love and acceptance? how about you love and accept this? p-p-p-p-powershot!
sound discretion of the trial judges. it s up to him. he is the man on the ground looking at the evidence so you see this act after act where judges have found that trump has abused the legal process or that trump has lied. his lawyers are objecting saying these are facts that have nothing to do with this case and they couldn t come in and that s just not what this argument is about because as adam has done a great job the only thing that s government could use these prior instances for at least on cross is to attack donald trump s credibility to argue you shouldn t believe anything he told you on the stand. he has lied in the past and you should judge his credibility light of all the other times he has been less than truthful. that should be enough to keep him soff the stand but with trump who knows. did we learn anything this
a.m. eastern, just 30 minutes after opening statements kick off in his criminal trial donald trump s other attorneys will head just down the street to a different manhattan courthouse for a civil fraud case hearing that could threaten hundreds ofu millions of dollars in his assets. today new york attorney general leticia james asked the judge to void donald trump s $175 million bond in the case siting concerns that the bond company might not actually have the funds to back it up. leading off our discussion tonight adam a fellow at just security who is covering the trial for the last word, also with us joyce a former united states attorney and a professor at the university of alabama school of law. she is co host of the hash tag sisters in law podcast and an msnbc analyst. thank you for being here. all right, trump s claiming he will be a witness. the judge will rule monday