the money from all the presidents men, follow the money, the checks, the checks. a sitting president wrote thos checks second, follow the facts, read the indictment, underline th facts as certain and ask yourself, who is going to confirm those facts whoa, i didn t realize thi plenty of cooperation, plent of witnesses, maybe people who flipped, i don t know. but follow the facts in th diamond. the third, most importantly, which is a little ironic to me follow the crime so, now we hear the defens counsel saying, oh, it wasn t state crime. we re going to move to dismiss well, wait a minute. so, it was a federal crime tha sent michael cohen to prison so, this is a great defense. our client committed a federal crime, but not a state crime that s the way i analyze thi indictment and i m not speaking fro inside knowledge and i honor the judge s reques that people like me and no just michael refrained fro commenting on the evidence until we see it presented in front of a jury. you know, i wa
if it is after the election, quote, they could avoid paying altogether because at that point it would not matter if the story became public. jeremy s land, that certainl knocks out the melania defense if that is credible testimon in court i think historically th melania defense, if you want t call it that, does not stand the test it has many holes in it. but you throw in the fact that it is clear that this is a prime example of the forme president speaking far too much, and finding out later on tha he wasn t in control and i hurt him he is thanking his own proverbial ship with his own words and history. so, the question afte donald trump spoke tonight i florida is what is it going to take for judge merchan t somehow try to contain trump s speech
of informing the defendant tha i m warning you better not act out. the judge was careful and the thought of cole presentation i have to say tha when you read through th transcript and you see the photograph of trump in the courtroom, he behaved exactl as i would expect him to behav in there he behaved like a very terrified criminal defendant who had nothing to say when th judge asked the question, do you understand, that he woul just say yes each time ver quietly. i do not think that there is the slightest chance of hi ever being disruptive in the courtroom. his disruption is the game tha he plays with microphones when he gets outside of tha courtroom and that is th challenge for the judge. yeah, he does not hav control, he s not the authority, he did not run the show in the courtroom in new york state or any court for that matter. the judge made that clear, and dan s point before this parker
with the prosecutors about tha kind of limitation already which is the norma professional way to do this. there was something that happened in the courtroom toda that has, i kind of language that was a renewed with trump life, and he could ve used mor of this apparently from someon in his childhood that is the parker warning tha was issued directly to him b the judge. this was requested by th prosecutors, i want to read fo the audience exactly how the judge put this to trump. this is called the parke warning. the court said, if you becom disruptive to such a degre that it affects my ability t preside over this case, and my ability to ensure that the cas is treated the way that it needs to be treated from bot sides, i do have the authority to remove you from the courtroom and continue in your absence. do you understand that defended mr. trump, i do. it is that a standard
stephanie ruhle, you still hav a show to do tonight at 11 eastern. we ve got lots to go lots to go now it s time to hand the whee to our colleague lawrenc o donnell. thank you, rachel donald trump was speaking, a you, know during your coverage and after the judge said i court today that he wanted the parties to this case to stop saying inflammatory things donald trump went right afte the judge and his wife today so, tonight, in that speech. so, we ll see, the judge could react to that very quickly after setting the preceden today in today s arraignment for, you know, don t do that kind of thing. so, we ll see what happens next we are entering potentially a new area of consequences for that kind of behavior for that particular politician. we are. thank you, rachel. thank you. today, donald trump took the longest trip of his life it was from his apartment in midtown manhattan to the