take the stand? oh, i i suspect the answer to that and we obviously will have to wait and see is donald trump will claim he wants to take the stand, may even say to his lawyers he wants to take the stand. but in the end, the guy s a chicken. and no, i don t think he s taking the stand. and even if he s not a chicken, we know he s someone incapable of telling the truth. and he has some good lawyers in this trial, and i don t think those good lawyers are going to let him stand up and perjure himself, get himself into even more hot water. so i suspect at the end of the day he will not take the stand. and he ll blame is on the case is so weak against me, we ve heard that, you know, because it will make the determination of whether to take the stand after the prosecution has provided all of their testimony. so he ll say i m not going to bother, i was planning on it, but now i won t. and you know, facts will see. one thing we got a little bit of a preview of today was
hi, everyone. it s 5:00 in new york. court is adjourned for the day. opening statements will begin on monday. in the words of the judge, this trial is starting. for so long we have used the word erosion to describe donald trump s assault on our institutions and americans faith in them, but if this week s spectacle showed us anything, it s the term erosion, the flow of water slow and steady, might be be understating the immediate danger. instead we ought to think of the harm done to the structure of our democracy, like a tidal wave with flash flooding possible. try as we with might to board up the windows to keep from being swept away, irreparable damage being done every second. you can see it in the actions and the fear of perspective jurors. some of them so frightened or intimidated from doing their basic civic duty that some were moved to tears in the course for
the prosecutors said they would introduce testimony about weinstein, the judge said i would allow that and led him not to testify in his defense at trial. and it s become something suzanne foreshadowed a moment ago, an appeal issue in the weinstein case. so, too, here. i m really glad to see the judge taking his time to think through these issues for monday. the prosecutors i think according to the news transcripts have offered three rationales for introducing this evidence. one is repeated fraud and illegality by the defendant, donald trump. that s a tough argument because the fact that you committed one crime doesn t necessarily mean you have propensity to commit another. the second, the one you were seizing on, i think is the strongest about credibility. and in particular, the prosecutor today talked about wanting to introduce evidence in the gag order proceedings in new york because there the judge summoned trump to the stand and found afterward that he had lied
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and protection. this is going to be very difficult to watch. i think we re going to be talking about that aspect of the story every single day of this trial. so my study of autocracy sunlights that we re having all these conversations in the wrong frame. what husband supporters, talking about them like they are normal supporters, what they like or don t like. page one of tyranny talks about the power that s given away. so it would appear if you put that lens over this, the power that s being given away is the power to hold donald trump to the same legal standard that any of us would be held to. right. i agree completely. i think one of the difficulties here is that many people can see that donald trump is getting away with more in the context of our ordinary criminal justice system than almost any other defendant would be for the reasons that your prior guest suggested. so it doesn t look like he s being held @ same standards, but there s another problem going on here.