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 courthouse in lower manhattan, where he would be fingerprinte and discover the contents of
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but the question came up in ou coverage earlier about why the southern district of new york, after the trump administration was gone and after merrick garland and the ne administration was in charge o the southern district of new york, why they didn t go forward with this kind o prosecution against donald trump when he had been named a individual one in the michae cohen case, where michael cohe went to prison through tha federal case i had suggested that som former u.s. attorneys in the southern district have sai that the policy there is fou witnesses like michael cohen t tell the u.s. attorneys ever single line they have ever crossed in their lives everything since isaac. and that michael cohen wasn willing to do that, an therefore the southern distric did not want to rely on him in a case like this is that why the southern
donald trump paid michael cohent 50,000 to rig the online polls, though he only gave the other guy 12,000 in a blue bag. the corruption, i mean, this is like an the anatomy. yeah. offa i corruption here. and the sort of pettiness of it, right? rigging an online poll i think one was like a cnbc poll where they wanted to get him on donald trump among the top business leaders, another was i think a drudge poll. and, yeah, i mean the $50,000 and then you ve got cohen basically stiff arming trump for more money. if you re the trump campaign or the trump organization you re going to point that out and say, see, michael cohen was a liar and thief and this is what he s doing, his word shouldn t be trusted and whatever he says before congress shouldn t be trusted. but it also goes to the level which michael cohen operated. you know, in sort of petty ways large and small with stormy daniels and then with this silly
foundation has actually been planning to dissolve since trump s election in 2016. the lawyer also said the lawsuit was politically motivated. wolf. mj, thanks very much. let s go back to our analysts. michael zeldin, how significant is this? well, it is significant inasmuch as it says there is a pattern of illegal activity that the trump organization has engaged in. that pattern of illegal activity we see again in the lawsuits that involve the inauguration, domestic and foreign contributions to the inauguration for the trump benefit, and also for the emoluments case where they are saying that they re profiting off of their time in office. so you see a pattern here of lawsuits, some by the government, some private sector, which says this essentially is a corrupt group of people running their operation for their own financial benefit. you know, jeffrey i have a somewhat go ahead. i have a somewhat different view. i think it is significant