good evening, everyone. i m alison camerata. welcome to cnn tonight. we continue our live coverage of the historical day of a former president being arrested and arraigned this afternoon, donald trump faced 34 felony counts for falsifying business records in connection with the hush money payments to adult film star stormy daniels. hours later, and aggrieved donald trump appeared in front of a very friendly mega outfitted proud at mar-a-lago. i never thought anything like this. could happen in america never thought it could happen. the only crime that i have committed is to fearlessly defend our nation from those who seek to destroy it. from there, he went on to spout his usual litany of lies and grievances. but that was the only part of today that was familiar. everything else we ve never before seen a former u. s president under arrest and walking into a courtroom sitting , with his defense team, having to answer to charges just as any other criminal defendants would so now
about four hours to do the opposite of that request when, during his speech at mar-a-lago, he personally attacked the judge . i m back with my panel. okay, so here s what the judge said in the courtroom today. let me read it to everybody, he said. please refrain from making comments or engaging in conduct that has the potential to incite violence, create civil unrest or jeopardize the safety or well being of any individuals. please do not engage in words or conduct which jeopardizes the rule of law, particularly as it applies to these proceedings in this court. room four hours later, nick donald trump at mar-a-lago went after insulted the judge called him names went after his wife. and his daughter talked about where his daughter has worked. don jr. the former president s son, put up a picture on social media of the daughter does that violate the judge s request? i would think it would, but the judges kind of in a bind here. he s got to be very careful what he does. i mean, i wouldn t
at it, and they also decided for whatever reason it was not appropriate to go on and to prosecute and one other thing in terms of my offer to join the trump legal team, and i ve been asked if i had any regrets and until the last couple of days. my answer was absolutely not, and i still don t have any except as a trial lawyer. i would just love to cross examine michael cohen. every time he goes on tv, nick, i would ask nick or anyone else have you ever had a cooperator when you re a prosecutor who goes on every possible tv show and talks and talks and talks and gives you more father to cross examine if you can create reasonable doubt with one juror michael cohen s not telling the truth, i don t care how much so called corroboration you have. that s a not guilty verdict. he s walking recently. it s interesting. you say that because the judge today talked about how everybody basically needs to quiet down. but that was because of you know, creating civil unrest and of threats, but we ll ge
relief so you can live your greatness. yeah it worked out. well done. well done. alright no one has ever seen this before. in the united states, a former president sitting at the defense table inside a criminal courtroom and the visuals were striking from donald trump s body language to his facial expression. what it all telegraphed. i m back with karen nick motion and coleman. so guys as viewers can tell you i m a body language expert, or i can t see myself one and so much. what what i saw was donald trump looking different than he is. you know, sometimes he comes in and commands a room as we know or commands a rally. this was him at a table. we have pictures. he looks sort of tired . his eyes look kind of glazed. he was sort of hunched over. he wasn t sort of sitting proudly as though i ve got this. i m going to be didn t reporters in the courtroom describe him as
other attorney john sale, john, do you agree? i don t and it s good to be on with my friend and former colleague nick we were. i was also a watergate prosecutor. so nick had everybody else. i disagree. i think the case is weak legally and factually. uh well, let me say before i go on. i think this is a very sad day for the country. i think it was a sad day for the presidency. the whole world is watching and nick, i think you may recall that when president nixon resigned, we were reminded in our office. we shouldn t be celebrating that it was a tragedy, so i think this was just unfortunate but getting back to the question at hand. i think legally. all right. the elevating this to a felony is i m not going to say it s incorrect, but i think it s untested, and i think it s more of a federal case and are nick and my former office where we work. so that district of new york u s attorney s office. they took a pass on this and it was not all the bar justice department which did but then the b