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
warning may be common in other contexts, this was really shock to former president trump, making it very clear that yo have to follow the quorum an my orders and you have t respect this proceedings otherwise there ar consequences and very real ones within reason, you canno control the former president outside the courtroom, especially when he has tha pulpit in general, but then yo run the risk, where he runs th risk of a gag order, and w start hearing things about family members of other parties, they can get ugly quickly, and that was absolutely not what the president wants to see happen andrew, we have talked once or twice in this program about the possibility of donald trum testifying in his own, defense which of course unfortunatel for trump means under oath, an that is a big problem becaus you ve got perjury sitting right beside him every secon that he is talking a lot of people say that you can never put him on the witness stand, but this case today it looks like one of those c