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
i think if we had a policy which was firm, which armed ukraine with defensive and offensive weapons so they could defend themselves i think putin would make different calculations so i think oballa s policy of weakness is actually making a larger conflict more likely that was less than eight years ago, but now, desantis wants to appease putin, calling the brutal invasion of ukraine nothing more than a territorial dispute. the latest sign the party of desantis, trump, and tucker is seriously out of touch with the views of most americans. also tonight, how the failure of silicon valley bank is exposing the myths of regulation and the hypocrisy of libertarians who seem real pro government when it comes to federal assistance for them. and donald trump rolls out the melania defense with his lawyer claiming the payment made to the porn actress whom he was allegedly cheating with were made to protect melania. not to help him get elected president. but we begin the reidout
safety returns around donald trump s arraignments and snl returns just in time frankly, it is time that come clean and admit that broke the law. and go quietly to prison april fools. i am jonathan capehart. this is a sunday show. martin luther king junio famously said the arc of the moral universe is along, and dance towards justice. donald trump dodged the draf and he allegedly does not pa as contractors he called for the death penalt for the central part 5 children wrongly accused and convicted of a vicious crime for which they were eventually exonerated he has been impeached twice. he instigated interactio because he s a sore loser an in roughly 48 hours roughly 50 years of skirting the law, donald trump will finally face a modicum of accountability. the exact charges against th ex president are still unknown because the indictment remains sealed but sources familia with the matter telling pc new the trump faces around 3 charges of documents charg connected to just mon
limitation that he puts on donald trump so the statements about joe fani willis and jack smith this defendant, and we can now say defendant, not forme president this defendant knows what is coming and he is conditioning the market becaus he knows what is going t happen and he knows he s going to have to figure out is defenses he s going to have to say don t believe them and that s why you re saying that. it is harder in state cour than in federal court to have gag order, but in both court why is that in federal court let s start with this version of the question. why is it easier in federa court? in federal court there ar two bases. one is that almost every federal court has what i called a free press fair trial rule so automatically, there is a gag order. there are certain things, an it s not about violence, it is about saying things about th case what they want to do is make sure that one party or the
table who is not an attorney - testified before the grand jury am i wrong in my late attorney knowledge that packer had to have met with prosecutors at least one time before they brought him before a grand jury he would before the grand jury twice, by the way he went early on when the gran jury receded, and then he came back just last week after th robert costello testimony. but people also need t remember, because i also hav that same that there was also immunity subsequently given to packer when they were looking a weissenberg as well. so pecker, it is not the first time that he has had contact with the through the federal system or the state cour system when it comes to th prosecutors.