a busy week ahead in the trials and tribulations of donald trump. tamara opening statements begin in the new york hush money case. the former president is required to be in court all week also tomorrow and another newer courtroom they will hold a hearing of questions about the $175 million bond posted in the former president civil fraud case. tuesday, they will hold a hearing on trump s potential gag order violations in the hush money case. thursday, another high-stakes showdown with the supreme court hears arguments on trump s claims of presidential immunity. joining me now, jonathan alter, msnbc contributor and author of the old goats newsletter and tristan, former assistant attorney general. let s get into this. while trump is in court for the hush money trial, this week, the bond hearing in the civil fraud case, that could have some meter major implications for the former president. is it possible that the judge decides this bond is not valid and would that mean the clock starts
david that s who we are talking about. he will describe catch and kill which began in august of 2015 in a meeting with trump and michael cohen and was their effort to pay people who had dirt on donald trump for their stories and they assumed the stories would run in the national enquirer and the national enquirer would skill kill those stories on behalf of the then candidate, trump. at that meeting you will hear about tomorrow in all likelihood, and 2015, we are going to hear that, basically, trump wanted david to be his eyes and ears on any stories about him and . and not once but twice, by
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have the assets to do this bond and that it should not have been allowed and it won t be allowed and the judge is going to say, nope, you can get a bond, sir, but it s not going to be from them and that is going to potentially result in proceedings taking place to go find assets to cover the judgment. so, just the math right there is rather stunning but also, this is an insurer that is not authorized to write business in new york. it is not recognized by new york state. i mean, it just seems like from all sides it is coming out it. anyway, to you, jonathan, because, obviously, it s a big week ahead for trump. you had a seat in the court. as he wrote, your new york times opinion piece, the theme of last week was trump had to sit in a new york courtroom he despises and listened as prospective jurors were not selected trashed him. his opening statements are beginning of this hush tourney money trial tomorrow. do you expect trump trashing to remain this theme of the next six weeks?
trump. the first former president to go on clinical trial. tamara opening statements begin in the hush money trial. also tomorrow, judge arthur will hear an application to revoke the $175 million bond that trump posted in his civil fraud judgment. tuesday, the hush money trial will shift to a contempt motion claiming trump violated the gag order than thursday the supreme court will hear arguments on whether trump is entitled to immunity from prosecution in the january 60 c case. yesterday, stormy weather interrupted trump s first opportunity to riff on his criminal trial. his rally in north carolina canceled due to bad weather. let s go to nbc s jake. how is trump handling the challenges of campaigning while on trial? reporter: what started as a stormy week for former president trump turned into a