compel somebody to comply. with the dodgers doing, by finding mr. trump $10,000 a day, is trying to compel those compliance. so mr. trump holds the proverbial keystone here. you can either hand over the documents that, perhaps, he s hiding. or he can convince the judge that they have diligently search for documents, and there are no more. so, if he doesn t want to be eight and thousand dollars a day in a fine, he actually has a really easy path out of this. the question is, will he take that path, or will we continue to storm the court, and attorney general of the state of new york, and when we can do that, is by appealing the trial courts decision told him in contempt. we ll see, but if you doesn t want to pay a fine, there s a really easy way not to pay a fine. all right, chuck is giving us criminal consequences, civil consequences, phil, i m
that they have diligently search for documents, and there are no more. so, if he doesn t want to be eight and thousand dollars a day in a fine, he actually has a really easy path out of this. the question is, will he take that path, or will we continue to storm the court, and attorney general of the state of new york, and when we can do that, is by appealing the trial courts decision told him in contempt. we ll see, but if you doesn t want to pay a fine, there s a really easy way not to pay a fine. all right, chuck is giving us criminal consequences, civil consequences, phil, i m learning a lot in this new book by these new reporters. and here s the thing, we ve learned a lot from these books. but shameful-ness and hypocrisy, those are resulting crimes. it mueller anything that could translate into real political consequences? from this book, we learned a few things that helped fill out the character of the republican leaders on capitol hill.
they re trying to deal with loss but in a public way and under very trying circumstances through no fault of their own. so i thank them. they have all been models of grace and understanding. and it s really remarkable, quite frankly. i think i ll come back to them, again, in a little bit. had your honor, we have a sentencing brief. i want to incorporate that. i guess i would incorporate my comments today into that memo. but i think there are things that i want to bring out today in my arguments. for hundreds of years, the court had discretion in sentencing. it was the trial court s decision. what a sentence should be. the recognition that the trial court sat through a trial, watched the evidence. and saw how it affected people.