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
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