any point. we will have to see. we re watching this live but this is new. i m joined by my friends, alex wagner, nicole wallace. these are live shots. this is the fourth time that we have covered the arrest and booking of former president trump. it doesn t get less weird. i know that you guys have been covering this for your shows that have happened already and the shows about to happen this evening. i feel a little bit of suspense in terms of what s going to happen in part because of the presence of cameras and in part because it s the last, time as far as, we know that trump is going to be arrested and booked. and he is very aware of the media impact, the television impact of the sorts of moments. i feel like his, actions his potential remarks are unpredictable in an interesting way. i feel like this is the combination of trump as a spectacle, if trump did anything to our politics besides corrupt them
defense lawyers porn prosecutors all the time, it ll catch of the prosecutor unprepared and it will in a high profile case like this, where d.a. willis took a year or two and this investigation, look, when she indicted this, case she was ready to go. if you are not ready to go, then you shouldn t indict a case like this. and so the defense lawyer that asked for the speedy trial, they re the ones that are significant disadvantage because they re going to have to go through and god knows how much evidence in a short period of time in the trial. in terms of the serve ability and whether all of 19 defendants when the court made the same time, we see an indication for trump s new lawyer today in a filing that he does not, if canisters parole wants to be tried that fast, then trump does not want to be tried alongside him. am i right in surmising that it is all up to the judge whether
sympathizers wanted to testify. it looks like the committee hissed from you. they re gonna go through and say, oh, look cassidy hutchinson testified, here s away she said it slightly differently, when she had a prior lawyer lawyer, therefore her testimonies not to be believed. i think she was quite credible, but watch, i ve seen it happen with witnesses. this could energize donald trump. let me ask you this way, elie, on the legal side ellen what s different dome trump tonight than when he woke up this morning? two things, first of, all there s now a book, a bible. this document, 160 pages an executive summary, we re all in one fairly concise place, they should ve made about one quarter the length, but in one place you could look and say, here is the story of what donald trump did. the other thing is, if i can cheat a little, in two days will be different when we get all the documents, doj is now gonna have all the evidence. doj, for better or for worse, they re going to have f
rudy giuliani who is no longer allowed to practice on washington d.c. or new york. the incompetent and corrupt bernard kerik who they installed as u.s. police commissioner before he was convicted of federal crimes, then pardoned by dome trump. steve bannon who was charged with federal crimes, then pardon by donald trump before trial lawyer john eastman, who is now desperately trying to disown the false legal memos he wrote for donald trump saying vice president mike pence could decide to the next president of the united states should be. john eastman is now obviously really living in fear of losing his right to law as giuliani.