should be relieved he wouldn t try to rape her allegedly? yesterday, before leaving ireland where instead of participating in the trial, he was hanging out at his golf resorts, trump claimed he was returning early to confront his case, even saying he would probably attend the trial, and even though trump s lawyers rested their case, the judge is giving trump until 5:00 p.m. on sunday to change his mind and take the witness stand. if not, closing arguments are set to begin on monday. joining me now is joyce vance, former u.s. attorney, professor at the university of alabama law school, and msnbc legal analyst. and david k. johnston, founding of dcreport.org and author of the big cheat, how donald trump fleeced america and enriched himself and his family. you have been covering trump a long time. one would think he at least knows the difference between marla maples, ivana, and a woman he says he didn t know her at all and yet he points to e. jean carroll, let me put the picture up, and s
talked about death and destruction. and the baseball bat picture. and you did take that down and my question why open yourself to criticism. you have to understand that when the story was put up. i put up a story we did not see pictures. a story was a good store frethe standpoint of when we are talking about. they put up a picture of me and you know where i was holding the bat at the white house make america, buy america i did a lot of buy america things this company makes baseball bats and next to that picture a picture of alvin brag. i did not do it they did it. the i guess the people that dot paper or somebody put pictures. i was holding a baseball about the to promote made in america not on your post no what they did is we posted the story but they had a picture up and then a picture or the
a picture up, but they didn t put a picture up or the picture was put up thapit nobody noticed or saw or the nobody thought was bad. were 2 sepetwo separat pictures i was promoting made in america. you make these baseball bats t instead of sending over to japan and china and all of the places where they made this was a company, good company that makes l baseball bats and other things like that in. america. they took that picture from the white house and they put it up and then they put a picture of alvin up.nd i will say this with death and destruction. i didn t say death and destructio n. t i said i m afraid.ha yeah, i said, i m afraid that if they do this, which is a fake prosecution, we re my worst enemies say that is he s totally innocent. i mean, i can nt.t people that have never been positive to med or defended memo that don t like me on the other side of the world. these are people who said you can t do this prosecution. it will caustremendoe tremendous problems. s i didn t say
parts of the southern plains thursday. of that s a look ahead. the next couple of days are looking pretty clear for the most part. that is where we find nicole valdez, our fox weather reporter. she has just made her way into rolling fork. we still can t get cell signal out there to get your picture up, but i think we ve got you on the phone here. tell us about what things look like on the ground. reporter: rick, i ll be honest,st the hard to put into words, just the extent of the catastrophic damage, and it just goes on for miles. it s difficult to make out what s what between a home, a building, a church. there are semi trucks piled on top of each other, and beneath them pieces of what s likely a family home. i see mattresses and kids toys. i mean, it s gut-wrenching, truly. and you mentioned the cell service. i mean, it s nonexistent. we had to drive a few ownses over just to be towns over
they need to be putting their arms around coal miners and steelworkers and working class people in the south, white, black, brown, gay, straight, go after these workers. that s what bobby kennedy did and that s why i keep this picture up, as a great reminder of when the democratic party is at its best, it s putting its arms around coal miners that have coal ash and all kinds of other stuff around them. so i keep it as a reminder. congressman, thank you. appreciate you coming back. thank you. social media, what do we have in terms of reaction? smerconish, you know there isn t a chance in hell of a conviction here. with regard to trump. i ve ranked previously here, many of you didn t like my ranking in terms of the cases from the four buckets that i perceive against trump. i thought mar-a-lago, obstruction, if that s what it is, was the strongest, cleanest,