stephanie ruhle, you still hav a show to do tonight at 11 eastern. we ve got lots to go lots to go now it s time to hand the whee to our colleague lawrenc o donnell. thank you, rachel donald trump was speaking, a you, know during your coverage and after the judge said i court today that he wanted the parties to this case to stop saying inflammatory things donald trump went right afte the judge and his wife today so, tonight, in that speech. so, we ll see, the judge could react to that very quickly after setting the preceden today in today s arraignment for, you know, don t do that kind of thing. so, we ll see what happens next we are entering potentially a new area of consequences for that kind of behavior for that particular politician. we are. thank you, rachel. thank you. today, donald trump took the longest trip of his life it was from his apartment in midtown manhattan to the courthouse in lower manhattan, where he would be fingerprinte and discover the contents of
district did not go forwar with this kind of case using michael cohen? look, i understand and have been very mystified mysel by why the southern district presented michael with a ultimatum on a friday afternoo and said, if you do not plea guilty to all of these charges including tax fraud where he was not even allowed to see th tax records, he was only his lawyer who said you have until monday to plead guilty or yo and your wife will be indicted i ve never understood that tactic the only time i ve had contact with the southern district prosecutors, i had a forme prosecutor as my co-counse because i know what i don know and i needed somebody who is a criminal defense lawyer and a former prosecutor. so the came up with ne information about donald trump that michael could provide u to plead with allowing michael to come in for at least sentence rejection, three year is a long time i was on the telephone to hear why the prosecutors, and m
or certainly, a threat to your life and limb if you are i prison to be called a rat. so, michael cohen was attacked every night. and a lot of time, by talkin heads who had no idea what the were talking about, speculatin and then attacking michael i feel obligated and alway have, lawrence, as you know me to protect my client reputation in the media. if the client is being smeared and family and home and hearth but, need to be defended b lawyers. in the media if they re bein attacked, michael cohen ha been defending himself fro these attacks, which he does not deny, for the ten year that he worked for donal trump. he said that in front of ten of millions of people, i lie for donald trump now, i want to turn my life or out. and the attacks on him never finish the sentence. he did almost all the things h pled guilty to, on behalf of for the benefit of donal trump. he did not have the allege affairs. he did not pay the money t hush up, because he was runnin for president ended when the amer
document that was submitte asking for a long sentence fro michael, and that is where i saw the words individual one directed michael cohen to pa hush money that was illegal, that must make individual one felon just as michael claimed. so why did they not name him don t trump? they could have said individua one in 1974, the watergate grand jury said richard nixo was an unindicted coconspirator, which is exactly wha then-president was they could not prosecute him under the policy of the justic department something is wrong here an i ve long felt an inspector, general after berman wrote his book for, sure it needs to loo into the actions or non action or influence of washington o trump himself in tha particular targeting of michae cohen. the only person, lawrence, the entire trump organization. the only person prosecuted b the southern district of new york now why did merrick garland,