Maybe i can do the thing that donald trump offers uniquely in my memory of american presidents, which is the ability to dictate actual policy. the ability to get favors. i feel like this is the other part of the trump administration echoes unfavored, because he is for sale. look at the adelson family. go down the list of donors and what do you get? and so if you re tech billionaire ceo philosopher king that s what these guys really want to be they may think trump is an idiot, and i think they do, but they also think they can puppeteer him and ways and they can help him run the country. that is something that joe biden does not offer them. in some way, is this like creating putin s oligarchs here? you know, i m listening to you, and i m like, i can t believe were here again talking about trump again and again. there s a real chance he
Myself checking myself saying, why am i so surprised, i shouldn t have been. laura, so one of the more unusual aspects of this case was how it ended. with bob costello being called by the defense. and i did not see that coming. lisa always thought they would call him. i thought they wouldn t do it. i am with you, and one of the reasons i m with you is that bob costello, if you remember, was somebody who donald trump said before this case was indicted that he wanted the grand jurors to hear from him. i thought, that s a stupid move, because it s never going to stop the grand jury from indicting, and you just revealed something to the prosecution. and you know, as a defense lawyer, one of the things you have as a matter of fact, sometimes almost the only thing you have is surprise. and so here they sort of it was flopped out to the prosecution a year ago. so i honestly, the cold record here does give some flavor little bit. to bob costello.
Courtrooms, in front of judges on very high-stakes cases, the one thing we know is that the person who is gatekeeping everything is the judge, and to laura s point that she made earlier, the jury looks to the judge sometimes as a paternal figure or maternal figure, or somebody s going to be there to guide us through this process, which can be confusing. it can be mays -like for some people. the thing about donald trump as he has introduced us to different judges. we ve seen the combination of the brett kavanaugh s of the world and his demeanor during the confirmation hearing. we ve also seen justice anger on . we seem just judge lewis kaplan from federal court. we seen different judges and the thing i think that is so poor in terms of america not
World, i think that amplifies the intensity. excellent plan. i was surprised by how close the witness stand was to the jury box. oh yeah, right there. really close. you know, and actually the witness stand from donald trump was much, much further, so that was something i think you don t get from not being there. we have much more of our super smart legal panel who are inside the courtroom coming up, but first it was some of the most shocking testimony of the trial when stormy daniels took the stand, all while apparently unbeknownst to us wearing a bullet proof vest. after the break, our team takes us not only inside the courtroom but inside the elevators and, wait for it, bathroom lines, where reporters tried to process what they had just heard. you re watching prosecuting donald trump: witness to history. many of the journalists in the room were looking at each other thinking, my gosh, i cannot believe this is happening. i cannot believe this is being said on a public stage. a
Of ronald reagan s action mandates. when i think about waxing back to the people who laid the foundations for this evolution, trump did not come to us in a vacuum. trump came to us because people lay foundations for hatred and bigotry and sexism. and i feel like i don t want to go back to the party that i could recognize of ronald reagan. but what i do want to say is people that we are leaving out in this conversation are the voters. i am constantly saying to people the election is not the end game. it is the starting game. you get the democracy you want and you get the democracy you participate in. and who do you want to fight? that is my whole thing. who do you want to fight? do you want to fight a madman or do you want to fight somebody who might listen to you, where you can get the needle moved? because these are the people. i don t think the election is going to be won by biden if