Versus donald j trump. I should be a lot of different places right now campaigning. Im sitting here. For the first time in history, prosecutors layout a criminal case against a former american president to a jury. This case is about a conspiracy to corrupt the 2016 president ial election. Tonight, the Opening Statements from the prosecution and the defense and the first witness takes the stand. We should be expecting a lot more of david. Rachel maddow was inside the courtroom to see it all. We got a road map as to how the case is going to go. As donald trump goes on trial. He seems old, tired, and mad. Tonight, which maddow, Lawrence Odonnell, alex wagner, stephanie ruhle, msnbc legal experts are all here. Special Coverage Of Trump On Trial begins. Now. Thank you for joining us tonight for this special Primetime Recap of the first ever criminal trial of former u. S. President , the first ever criminal trial of a major parties summative nominee as their candidate for president. I know R
that is how you change hearts and minds, you step into the fray. that is what i did yesterday, just showing up with a sign to start a conversation. but we need to have it. we can t just yell at each other, and the pro-life movement is going to remain peaceful and loving and nonviolent, until we see this through to the end. tucker: you think the other side will remain peaceful? it doesn t look that way. no, i mean, you saw representative a couple weeks ago attacked pro-life side walk counselors, went up to philadelphia to say knock it off, resign, stop bullying us. this increased hostility is concerning, but look, violence begets violence. abortion is a violent act. it is members a child in the womb, it hurts the woman physically, emotionally, and so we need to stop the violence. mollie did a great job talking about this being a human rights issue here the question i had yesterday for this woman in the presidential candidate, bernie sanders, ab, shar, will you draw a line anywhere?
community. so with a trip wire, just to get technical for a moment, it is simply a wire that is attached to some device which when pulled triggers the device. this is a big problem. in our studio, we have a white floor with big black cables and we trip over them sometimes. the idea that there is some piece of string or some fishing line or some small metallic line anywhere in austin has got to get people freaking out. well, it really is. i mean, people have something to look for. go look on your front porch. if the package isn t from fedex or u.p.s., don t touch it, call the police. but now if you walk down the sidewalk, if you come out on your driveway perhaps there is that piece of fishing line that during the day is going to be hard to see much less at night invisible. i mean that fear is going to start to become pallet onlatabp.
let me ask you about this general. i want your all response. broad influence how women are changing the way america works. howard, meghan and jay, there is this period thing where hillary clinton made a comment about trump s penchant for sexism. trump went wild on this thing, accusing her of enabling bill clinton s misbehavior in the white house, the whole works. now it seems bill clinton and hillary clinton are going to shut down this conversation. i think it s going to help him more than her. one thing to her biggest advantage is to look presidential, to set out detailed policy proposals to target the changing demographics with certain proposals. you don t want to bring a knife to a gun fight. if you get into a gun fight with trump, you are going to lose. he has shown no aptitude for drawing the line anywhere, drawing the line on taste or
trump s penchant for sexism. trump went wild on this thing, accusing her of enabling bill clinton s misbehavior in the white house, the whole works. now it seems bill clinton and hillary clinton are going to shut down this conversation. i think it s going to help him more than her. one thing to her biggest advantage is to look presidential, to set out detailed policy proposals to target the changing demographics with certain proposals. you don t want to bring a knife to a gun fight. if you get into a gun fight with trump, you are going to lose. he has shown no aptitude for drawing the line anywhere, drawing the line on taste or where he is going to go. for his base, this plays squarely into it and those people, which is a large portion of people who can t stand hillary clinton. anything he says gains points with them. for her, i think it s a much more difficult. if she lowers the tone, if her husband who has gone out the first day today lowers the tone,