highlights. we are not going to analyze the former president of the united states repeating lies, smears, and bigotry. we ve all heard it many, many times before. however, but we need to do tonight is solve for how news organizations will cover donald j trump, the twice impeached, indicted, liable for sex abuse private citizen. if he doesn t fact when the republican nomination. it has nothing to do with what he did tonight. he did what he has done countless times before. the question we need to answer is what we are going to do next. let s get right to it. my nbc news washington correspondent colleague emulsion centers here, liam cold will of the washington post, and andrew weissmann, former fbi general counsel and nbc news legal analyst. coming, this is the first and we ve seen trump outside of the cocoon of conservative media for a long time. where was he? in a thunderdome stacked with his sister borders cheering him on and he steamroll through his greatest hits of lies. if
private citizen. if he doesn t fact when the republican nomination. it has nothing to do with what he did tonight. he did what he has done countless times before. the question we need to answer is what we are going to do next. let s get right to it. my nbc news washington correspondent colleague emulsion centers here, liam cold will of the washington post, and andrew weissmann, former fbi general counsel and nbc news legal analyst. coming, this is the first and we ve seen trump outside of the cocoon of conservative media for a long time. where was he? in a thunderdome stacked with his sister borders cheering him on and he steamroll through his greatest hits of lies. if this man is the nominee, ignoring him is not an option for any of us. so what are we going to do? stephanie, it s a great question. i m not quite sure that we as a reporting atmosphere, as a reporting group have really figured it out. we have to obviously fact check him, we have to obviously try our best to c
doesn t get to sit in the trial room when the mobsters on trial? they don t either, they have to be quite in a as a church mouse, and there s a judge overseeing it. cnn stacked, as you said, the audience here was falls into the category of what were they thinking? that is not a representation of the public. that just seemed like my view, irresponsible. it means you have to prepare the way you do for a trial which is you have to be thinking, when i cross examine, i thought through what is any possible answer, and what dwayne do next? if he says acts, where do i go? what s my why? so you have to be prepared. now it s obviously in a courtroom in many ways because the person is under oath, it s a controlled setting, you get to have followups, they have to answer the question. there s a judge to enforce it. so if you re in a much tougher position, but i think you have to be uber prepared to in order to do that kind of questioning. let s time the department of justice tonight, that s
to have followups, they have to answer the question. there s a judge to enforce it. so if you re in a much tougher position, but i think you have to be uber prepared to in order to do that kind of questioning. let s time the department of justice tonight, that s i m jack smith we, right? if you re watching donald trump, he appears to not have a care in the world. you would not think i want to hear it. you re jack smith tonight, is he taking notes? absolutely. notes? absolutely. tell me. as we just on the e. jean carroll case, what was the best evidence for the case? it came out of donald trump s mouth. his deposition was a gold mine because he s just not that good. fortunately or unfortunately. exactly, exactly. referring to his statement about grabbing a woman s genitals. stars can do. it because they re obviously two sides to that story.