espoused a range of false claims that he said would show he overwhelmingly won the election in the state and he encouraged ducey to study them, adding, two of those people say, trump repeatedly asked vice president mike pence to call ducey and prod him to find evidence to substantiate trump s claims of fraud. in an interview over the weekend, pence confirmed that he did check in with ducey but denied ever exerting any pressure. of course, it wouldn t be the only time trump would pressure a state official to overturn a state s election results. so, look, all i want to do is this. i just want to find 11,780 votes, which is one more than we have. because we won the state. i should note georgia secretary of state brad raffensperger med with investigators from jack smith s speaker of the house last week
asphalt history. as voters even in thi conservative grand disagree on what should come next. some of our republica friends have gone too far. that s where i stand righ there. from conception. so you even think a six-wee ban is too lenient oh yeah trump himself rallyin another matchup against jo biden. if you take the first fiv presidents that are th absolute worst and you add the all together, they have no done the harm the joe biden an his administration have done t our country. it s so sad. even as some of the party worry with another circle with trump as top of the go targets. trump is a significant part of why we lost and we also nee to make sure that we are putting forward a vision and a idea for the future. there is some concern tha still exists richard about the role trump has played both i the last midterm elections i 22 but even before that in 2018,
course could be sent to jail for that outcome if he lost. do you understand? mr. trump replies, quote, yes. all of this happened yesterday and again it is standard that the video cameras were not on. most states have them. new york does not. standard procedure for the defendant. again and again, you saw a huge widening gap between the role trump is playing in public and what he s assuring his supporters and all the rest to the as required cooperative and obedient behavior in the court when a judge is at trial. this is the most donald trump faced in this scenario the next hearing date set for december 4th most arraignments, i can tell you, that would be that. you go through it. this was longer than usual, but okay, we got through that stuff. here s the next hearing and you re going to be there why are you going to be there? if you blow off an arraignment in new york, the judge yaissuesa
inciting the deadly capitol insurrection. and there s a suit filed by the partner of capitol police officer brian sicknick who says the officer s death was a direct and foreseeable consequence of the role trump and rioters played on january 6th. all of this as the twice impeached ex-president s former attorney appeared before the manhattan d.a. today. we begin with some of our favorite reporters and friends. investigative reporter and msnbc contributor susan craig is here. she has covered the finances and taxes of donald trump for years. she knows more about them than any other human. joyce vance, former u.s. attorney, now law professor at the university of alabama and an msnbc legal analyst. and harry litman, former deputy assistant attorney general is here. we will be joined in a little bit by michael cohen about what he can share with us that he shared with alvin bragg today. susan, i start with you. when you look at the payment to stormy daniels i mean, i
was nuts, n-u-t-z, crazy and shouldn t be attempted. the internal discussions among trump advisers would make you think they would be very fortcoming with you about how wrong the scheme was that they were asked to participate in. well, one would think. you know, there was i m sure you have taken a look at cassidy hutchinson s testimony from september that when i read that, my jaw dropped and the kind of intimidation and tampering with her testimony that she talked about. now, obviously it s her testimony. we weren t present but made me start thinking about some of the other witness testimony that we received and what role trump world played with that. don t know. but certainly if it was along those lines it s cause for concern. something i think the department of justice will have to look at.