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
the roadmap that proves, ordered least intends to prove the intent of fraud is there the intent to commit the other crimes is there. when you read, it it goes hand in hand with those 34 counts i that indictment. as usual, donald trump ha floated some possible defenses out there leading up to today. one of the defenses of floated by one of his lawyers in the last few weeks has been, he wa not doing this because of th campaign he was doing this to protect melania, to protect his wife from this crushing information if you were to ever get this information. however, in the indictment i says, in the description of th actions it says, donald trum said to michael cohen, delay the payment to stormy daniel if possible. delay the payment to her i till after the election because,
the alleged affairs. michael cohen did it for donal trump, because he had sold his soul to donald trump and that s not me, that s what he said to the american people and really, streaming around the globe. so, the personal attacks on him, i have to now try to b cautious myself. i don t want to offend the judge. he s absolutely right. lawyers and people in th courtroom now that we have a jury, it s due process, donald trump is presumed innocent until proven guilty. we ve got to be careful. but i am going to defend his credibility, because i know ho he has turned his life around. and ever since, he s bee substantiated and corroborated in every way possible, including the documents an emails and text messages tha we saw when we were at the prosecutor s the last fe months lanny, i d love to just squeeze in a commercial brea here, if you let me, because i have a couple more questions o the other side of it thank you, lawrence we re gonna be right back with lanny davis qulipta gets rig
that in a moment but let s do it right now. so, michael cohen, your name did not come up today, but michael cohen s name came up b the trump lawyers, in defense, this was in defense of the prosecutors pointing out to th judge that donald trump ha issued homicidally threatening imagery of him with a baseball bat slamming into alvin bragg. donald trump has attacked alvi bragg but. the district attorney s wife which has never happen i history, attack the judge, which out of the judge already knew about and on and on, all of thes things that donald trump has said publicly that are, that n one s ever said about thei prosecutors or their judges in any criminal case ever anywhere. and their defense, the trump lawyer defense was michael cohen. michael cohen, every time he talks to the grand jury, every time you talk to the
district did not go forwar with this kind of case using michael cohen? look, i understand and have been very mystified mysel by why the southern district presented michael with a ultimatum on a friday afternoo and said, if you do not plea guilty to all of these charges including tax fraud where he was not even allowed to see th tax records, he was only his lawyer who said you have until monday to plead guilty or yo and your wife will be indicted i ve never understood that tactic the only time i ve had contact with the southern district prosecutors, i had a forme prosecutor as my co-counse because i know what i don know and i needed somebody who is a criminal defense lawyer and a former prosecutor. so the came up with ne information about donald trump that michael could provide u to plead with allowing michael to come in for at least sentence rejection, three year is a long time i was on the telephone to hear why the prosecutors, and m