a very important friday. we will reconvene the courthouse gang for this hour to go over what we have all been through and, alex, just a word about a banana republic. i despise the term and have despised it for so long now because it carries the assumption that countries that grow bananas, and we know where they are, somehow inherently have inferior governments to ours. which we have proven many times before is not true and nothing proves that better than the trump years and, oh, by the way, we grow bananas in hawaii. agriculturally and ethically, great points, lawrence, as always. thanks, alex. have a great show. thanks. well, it was a one word sentence that changed donald trump s life. he wasn t expecting to hear that word yesterday. at 4:15 p.m., judge merchan told defendant donald trump and his lawyers, the prosecutors in the courtroom, quote, i m going to excuse the jury about 4:30. we will give them a few more minutes and then we will excuse them. donald trum
, the better it is for the defense and so, donald trump and todd blanche were nearly giddy that the jury was going to go home for a second day. without reaching a verdict. donald trump that he was going home without a verdict today. he just had about 15 minutes to kill, and what we saw was a donald trump at that defense table we ve never seen before. he was joking, laughing, smiling with todd blanche. they were chatting and laughing almost incessantly. todd blanche laughing so hard at one point doubling over so that his four head almost touch the table in front of him. they thought they were going home today without a verdict. it was almost a jubilant, giddy donald trump but that changed very quickly when the judge merchan came back to inform the parties that the jury had reached verdict. the jury had a verdict after only nine hours of deliberation, which is not a long deliberation for a 34 count indictment and so donald trump watched his jury under the courtroom for what
the world slows down and you experience the passage of time in thousandths of a second, so if there is another count of the indictment, it always seems like the announcement of a second verdict comes a very long time after the first verdict and if both of those verdicts are the same, only then do you begin to believe your ears. that is when you hear the cry. that is when you hear the mothers crying for their sons who have just been convicted. i was a teenager when i heard a wife crying for her husband who had just been convicted of murder. i had many conversations with her during that trial. i can t remember the sound of her voice, but i will never forget the sound of
the world slows down and you experience the passage of time in thousandths of a second so that if there is another count of the indictment, it always seems like the announcement of a second verdict comes a very long time after that first verdict. and if both verdicts are the same, only then do you begin, just begin to believe your ears. that is when you hear the crying. that is when you hear the mothers crying for their sons who have just been convicted. i was a teenager when i heard a wife crying for her husband who had just been convicted of murder. i had many conversations with her during that trial. i can t remember the sound of her voice, but i will never
so aoc is playing into this, because it serves her. i know it is cynical, but folks, be cynical. this is what she is doing. she loves the sound of her voice, and she makes no sense when you add up, if you were to look at all of her speeches as we see the clips, i like to go back and watch more of it. and you realize that she is disconnected and she is simply playing to a crowd. lisa: capri, how big of an impact has alexandria ocasio-cortez had on the democratic party as a whole? capri: depends on where you are in the country, folks in the middle of the country like my home state of ohio cringe at this lurch to the left and going away from the main stream values that we have all been accustomed to, the jfk democrat if you will, i think that aoc, these people throwing around the word flip fascism don t understand the word fascism, the way that people throw around the word socialism. they don t know the definition