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the problem with bringing a case like this in the middle of campaign. the government has no evidence of criminal intent. i m just representing a client. i m ensuring that justice is done in this case. president trump is entitled to his day in court, and he ll get it. he asked him in an aspirational way. asking is covered by the first amendment. if you re going talk about the law, you have to understand what the first amendment says and what it stands for. hi again, everyone. it is 5:00 in new york. i m alicia menendez in for nicolle wallace. a flurry of appearances on talk shows by trump s attorney, all in one day i should add, which came as the guidelines over what donald trump and his legal team can say publicly about the federal election interference case still being worked out in court. tomorrow we will get a clear picture of what judge tanya chutkan will allow defendant trump and his legal team to say. chutkan ordered the prosecution and defense to appear before her
that he is the aggrieved here, he and all of his supporters. when he keeps saying kwet i m doing this for you and supporters buy that in large quantities, it sort of creates and finishes that culture circle around him. so, yes, we ll consistently see this on the campaign trail. he ll continue to talk about it. if he were a different candidate that actually had policy position, we might hear those. but that s not going to happen. but january 2nd, that as a date when you look at the primary calendar. things are heating up. that s right. if you can call it a problem, the problem is that there is nobody else challenging donald trump that will make an effective argument to either silence him or push him out of the race. that s unlikely to happen. everything he is doing, as you say, fuels his supporters. so if it works for him, he is going to make it continue to work for him. but there is no one that s in the foreseeable future that s
things. i think that jack smith s primary goal here was, again, to keep a relatively simple trial. i think that he will if there is no movement towards cooperation by any of these defendants, i think there will likely be an indictment coming down. there is still time on the clock with respect to the statute of limitations. but first and foremost, he needed to get this trial done. and we will be watching. carol lam, david aronberg in for florida, thank you so much for being here. basel is sticking with me. when we return, how clarence thomas reaped the benefits of a network of deep-pocketed patrons. it goes far beyond what we already knew. the reporter behind that investigation joins us at the table in just a minute. plus, new polling reveals how unpopular tommy tuberville s block on military promotions really is in his ruby red home state of alabama, even among republicans. and chris christie calling donald trump s bluff as trump
i think judge chutkan is going to grant it. because why would trump want this information but to intimidate witnesses, to try this case in the court of public opinion. trump s legal team tipped their hand already because his lawyer, lauro, went on all the sunday shows. it s called the full ginzburg. he did that because they warrant their supporters to be riled up. they want to taint the jury pool. i think the judge is going to send a message back. every time this legal team puts forward an argument, all of the attorneys at our table, that is not a thing, that is not a legal argument. once they are actually in the courtroom, right, and they are defending their client, what do you expect the argument to be that they make? they don t really have many arguments except for the first amendment argument and the advice of council argument that i just did what john eastman told me. both of those arguments require donald trump to testify. and his lawyers do not want him to take the stand. it