as the verdict itself, is something that brings you back to foundational goals and purpose of the rule of law and how it is founded on the people of the united states. adam, i have marveled at the way you do your work in the courtroom because you are present in the courtroom. you are taking everything in. you are taking notes, but you are also live tweeting in the courtroom for so many hundreds of thousands of people, sometimes millions of people out there trying to follow through you, and many others who are live tweeting in that courtroom and so, you are living the experience and transmitting the experience at the same time. i have never had to do that in a courtroom. in a courtroom, i am taking and what is happening and i am taking it into me and i have to have time to think about it before i transmit it to someone else. what was it like for you to be typing that word guilty, hearing it from the foreperson s mouth and then
donald trump. that all started with david pecker and it just continued, so when i think about is there one moment? no, there is not one moment. there is a series of moments each and every day that was two years in the making with alvin bragg s team thinking about, how do you construct this case in a way that no one can say it is solely because of that guy over there, who is disgruntled and upset because he served time in prison and that guy, the one he used to love, did not, and i think they did that masterfully. and adam, district attorney alvin bragg made appearances in the courtroom probably when his schedule allowed, a few times over the course of the trial during various points of testimony including, by the way, some of the most undramatic testimony he happened to be in the courtroom for, but he was there for every minute of the summations by the defense and the prosecution, and i was sitting there imagining alvin bragg a couple of years ago, when he really started staring at t
a staggering admission from todd blanche, i was just gob smacked by seeing that interview. you know, adam, he had a tough time in the courtroom. i sympathize with lawyers that have bad facts. i said that that is with lawyers and court rooms who have, there s just nothing they can get up there with and use. they don t really have ammunition. but to get into this freewheeling discussion on cnn and to say that is a question that no defense lawyer should ever be asked. are you kidding me? you cannot ask a defense lawyer whether he should ve called more witnesses? it didn t make sense. and, you know, lisa said it all with that. i would say, one of the most surprising thing with me going back to the trial was todd blanche wasting so much of his time and credibility on the patently absurd argument that these were not reimbursements. after his own client had said
burden to basically present this case, which is to say tell this story. i have to say, sitting there in the audience section of that courtroom, they presented it like a good movie. i didn t know what was coming next. i never knew who was the next witness. i couldn t sit there and say this was their next move. and every move made sense, when you saw you go yes, that makes sense. that is absolutely true. even when people came in order that we weren t necessarily expecting, you know, prosecutors don t always have the luxury of presenting their witnesses exactly how they want to. sometimes witnesses are unavailable on a particular day, or you have to get in some witness out of order so that you can admit evidence that you might want to use with somebody else. but they were meticulous, and their planning was well worth it. lisa rubin, adam klasfeld, andrew weissman. i can never
adam klasfeld, lisa rubin, andrew weissmann, back with us. andrew, listening to that today makes you realize that we rarely hear presidents talking about criminal prosecutions. there are so few that ever rise to the level of presidential attention at any point, including the verdict. presidents not including donald trump who commented on prosecutions of his own people while they were happening. but what the president said today was the most elementary message about american justice. yes and you know you could replace the word trial with election and it is the same. which is, you know, losing an election, well if you want, it is fair and if you lost it is rigged. and the same would be true at