to fund the man is a white supremacist. whatever he is, i should be there. i don t know what he has. he knows what he is playing tampered he is running to the gop base. if you have a guy like donald trump returned to the white house, someone who invokes the insurrection act to shoot protesters that may be getting you may get tom cotton in the senate basically agreeing with the president thing, use the insurrection act. one of the ironies in this conversation is that you have got hypocrisy of tom cotton, you know, back in 2022 tom cotton criticized then canadian prime minister justin trudeau for invoking power to deal with the trucker convoy that was blocking traffic to protest against covid vaccine mandates. back then tom cotton was upset that the canadian prime minister was using his special powers to break up these
fox news is caring for him every day and recapping the trial in a way that is rather unfortunate and does not play to what is happening in the courtroom. donald trump, he is not fundraising off of this is not able to be on the campaign trail. he is frustrated because he is not in the battleground states every day he is not hoisting up a steak campaign office. he could not do even if he was not in this trial, to be honest, because he does not have the money. that is a problem for him. this will be a very tight election cycle but no one would want to be in a courtroom versus being out on the campaign trail. it is hard to do all those things at the same time. dean, you mentioned he would likely not face jail time if he is convicted. walk us through what is at the core of the accusations that are made against donald trump. why should ordinary americans tonice point about fox doing the heavy lifting why should they care about this? reporter: there s two parts of this.
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that, you know, he has to be there in the courtroom. you mentioned already on this. beyond that, at times he is treating donald trump the way that his actions marriage. i have tried many criminal cases in my life. i have never in my career as prosecutor or defense attorney have a trial in which the prosecution does not tell the defense, in advance, which witnesses they are calling the next day. that way the defense can prepare to cross-examine those witnesses as opposed to the 50 or 60 on the list. the fact that the judge is basically saying, we cannot trust you to have the names, donald trump and we will disadvantage her lawyers. that sends a message to donald trump it sends the message that he is not in control. he sits down when he is told tupper he does what he is told tough. if he continues to behave badly, there will be consequences.
trump s head pretty wants to wait and see how trump behaves. he is this sword that is hanging over trump s head it is giving the judge more leverage, more ways to try to inspire trump to potentially follow the rules in the courtroom. the statutory capital for a fine is $1000. he good go to contempt of court. this did not occur within the four walls of his courtroom. might be a little bit outside his authority. he wants to hold trump accountable but he also does not want to create a situation where it will make more of a martyr of donald trump or overstep his authority or create some sort of sideshow. renato mariotti, thank you as always. ameshia, dean, please stick around. up next, i will talk to a