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
it s not like a civil case where he has to be deposed he s a right to remain silen and he s going to remain silent, just as violent as he was toda except for the brief questions that the judge asked him jeremy, as we go forward, what would you be expecting in terms of sequences of motions. obviously they will want to go to, don t trump has talked about moving this case t staten island. that is what he considers change of venue. just that one for example, wha is the likelihood of that bein taken seriously by the judge i think that goes nowhere fast it is not going to state island, it is staying in manhattan. let s be clear about that. i can be certain the judge i going to review the grand jury minutes, there s going to be the proper discovery, th defense is going to challeng likely the statute o limitations, the underlyin bump up if you will that the grand jury decided to raise it from a misdemeanor to felony and i m going to be shocked if something similar, called clean motion, a t
cannot take the stand. in any case ever? and any of these cases, every prosecutor, the plant is in the e. jean carroll case, letitia james, all of th people, and whether you are in the government, whether your plaintive suing him, the bes possible thing that coul happen to your case is him taking the stand that s not going to happen for the same reason that is in the special counsel, special counsel mueller, because there s so many specia counsel s, where he said, oh i m happy to testify, of cours i m going to go in that didn t happen because, you know what, hi defense counsel were, like there is no way on god s green earth that you re going in there. which is actually the righ thing to do. and he s surprisingly listened he is not going to testify in terms of the document case, yes, he has confessed over and over and over. this is, again, the defens
counsel s nightmare. it is also irrelevant, as we v talked about that the document are classified are not classified, because you know what, you cannot steal government documents here the end, there s a federa statute on that. but to sit there and say i too them but i thought they re declassified, they re stil government documents unless he s got to say, when i take stuff, it s mine. that s like a robert going int your house and say i m stealin it, but when i think about it, they re mine it doesn t work that way so, i really think in that cas it s very, very hard to figure out any possible defense i that case. so, he, there s a reason he attacking fani willis, there i a reason he s attacking jack smith, because he knows what h did. and he knows these are bot cases that can be made andrew weissmann, dan horwitz, jeremy saland catherine christian, thank you all very much for starting off our discussion tonight, we r going to come back for mor later. but coming up, lanny davis, th atto
department of justice is going to do. because this case, depending o where it is in its motio practice, it was the first cas brought, it might be the las case tried and by the way, all of the things that happen in thes cases, particularly, and i agree with angela, the b suicide for the president to testify in any of these cases, but if he takes the stand in any of these other proceedings that testimony could be used against him not just there, bu by all of the prosecutors an all of these cases catherine, the question o donald trump taking the witnes stand is something that we hav pertained here before. the more that you think abou it, the more it does seem like the greater danger is puttin him on the witness stand sure, there is a huge danger i having a guilty verdict in manhattan, because you didn minimalist and, but that dange is almost as strong, or if not stronger if you do put him o the witness stand. he s not going to testify