rule of law. i just want to circl back to the gag order for moment. what about the judge will tomorrow, just tomorrow coming up with one piece of it and just saying, you must neve again, in your life, donal trump, mentioned the wife of the district attorney? don t ever do that again. it has never been done before. you ar the first defendant in the history of this county t attack the wife of the distric attorney. let s just start wit that one piece of gag order, and see if he can observe that yeah. i mean it would b well within his rights, i think, as a judge to preserve to th court to say something lik that. trump may try to challenge it but there are n so called interlock tory appeals, he could because o it. and then just one word about this new trump lawyer, talk lunch because, he does, lawrence, have a very good reputation as andrew says. i wish him well, not in a gwynet
the criminal justice system. and i find that quit problematic. there is no law that says, the are making of a law becaus there s no law that says tha because we are doing that. there are a lot peopl president around the world i that happens they are all saying, it s no political. they are after me. nbc political analyst, secur bloomberg opinion and law of trump expert he s the author of the biography trump nation, the ar of being the donald. tim, you age well. you become more and more relevant every day what - if we think we have seen all o it, some interesting thing have happened in the last fe days one is they say the donald trump was actually caugh
and i find that quit problematic. there is no law that says, the are making of a law becaus there s no law that says tha because we are doing that. there are a lot peopl president around the world i that happens they are all saying, it s no political. they are after me. nbc political analyst, secur bloomberg opinion and law of trump expert he s the author of the biography trump nation, the ar of being the donald. tim, you age well. you become more and more relevant every day what - if we think we have seen all o it, some interesting thing have happened in the last fe days one is they say the donald trump was actually caugh unawares he didn t think this was gonna happen for - some form of a rally your pres conference or something, o tuesday, after his arraignment number three, there ar conversations about how he i going to be behaving on this front, he is using it to raise money.
but the bottom line of all o it, the main thing i think w need to keep in mind constitutionally in terms of our history in terms of ou american system of governmen and accountability, the bottom line of all of it, for us righ now, is if this new york indictment goes as terribly as it possibly could for former president donald trump - i mean, if he is indicted an it goes to trial and he is convicted and he is then sentenced to prison as a consequence of those convictions, all of those bi ifs after the indictment - even if the worst happens it goes to trial, he i convicted, he sends the prison if he goes to prison - even if all of that happens, none of that would affect hi actual eligibility to run fo president again if he so chooses. it is the constitution tha says who is eligible to serv as president and the constitution sets only three criteria one, you need to be a natura born u.s. citizen. number two, you need to have been a resident of the unite
okay, no rule that says yo can t indict a person if tha former person is a forme president. there s no rule that says yo can t indict a person if tha person is a candidate fo president. yes, people have run for president while unde indictment before. yes, at least one guy has ru for president while in prison. congratulation, the answer t that question is eugene v. debs he got a million votes very interesting as we enter into this ne chapter in crime in th presidency but the bottom line of all o it, the main thing i think w need to keep in mind constitutionally in terms of our history in terms of ou american system of governanc and accountability, the bottom line of all of it, for us righ now, is if this new york indictment goes as terribly as it possibly could for former president donald trump - i mean, if he is indicted an