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Over for the today as we explained earlier for anyone just joining us. There was an alternate juror who needed to see the dentist. Shes got a Tooth Ache and no judge is going to keep someone with a Tooth Ache listening to testimony or opening statements. They adjourned a lot earlier than expected. They were already going to adjourn at 2 00 because of the Passover Holiday which started at sun down tonight. People have to get home and do all their preparations. But were joined now by mark short, former Chief Of Staff to former Vice President mike pence. Talk to us about what you see as the political fallout from the kind of testimony that youre going to hear based on the opening statements. Its rather salacious. Its, at least from the prosecution side, the allegations about past behaviors and also what we heard from the judge today, leaving it up to the judges discretion
case. all of this is free press for him to say, look, i am the unluckiest man in the world who has been victimized by all of these people and all of these jurors and all these prosecutors and all these judges are against me. so i think the challenge for the prosecutors is going to be, how do you counter that without constantly being on the courthouse steps with a counter narrative, and how do you defuse that? trump made a weird statement today about the civil case, saying that he wants to speak or might speak in the closing argument. and most jurisdictions that i m familiar with, it s either or. you re either representing yourself or you are not. if you have a lawyer you don t get to speak when it s a lawyer s turn to speak. does, will new york allow donald trump to speak on the closing argument in that case? it s within the judges discretion. but if the defendant decides to
that they can do that. but one of the big questions moving forward is what we call severance. so we have 19 defendants in this indictment. so the question will be, how are we going to break these defendants up for trial? theoretically you could do 19 separate trials, i don t think anyone wants that. but that is going to be something that the parties argue. and they may not agree on, it and that will ultimately be within the judges discretion. could some of these charges against some of these individuals go through even if the trial for the former president is, you, know they make an agreement with federal prosecutors that this will be lost in the line? yeah, for, sure there is no rule saying that the first person on the indictment in this case donald trump has to be tried first. and if it plays out than donald trump has too many other cases they have to deal, with including the federal cases, it could be that donald trump s trial gets pushed off until after the 2024 election. but i
to buy a gun access to gun if you ve committed a crime as a juvenile, if you ve committed a crime against your wife or your spouse. we need to have strongd rules . then we need to give the policee the tools they need to arrest. and if we have t to expand jaila space judge to put people behind bars. prosecuting the rules and the laws on the books around gunss today, then we should shoul absolutely do that, jesse . well, his father probably abandoned them, which is why heo joined a gang and then the gang probably handed him the weaponsi because the gang knows that ifwn you re a juvenile, against pops with a weapon, you re not going to serve much time. and so you have to give these judges discretion. it s one thing if you rejoseph , you get caught with a gun or some drugs. okay, you maybe you give the sed guy a second chance. but if this guy s racking up. felon charges of aggravated burglary, carjacking, domesticao violence, you have to give a judge the opportunity to say this is an evi