sandra smith along with emily compagno, harold ford jr., jesse watters, aunt tyrus. 5:00 in new york city, and this is the five. that was former president donald trump just moments ago saying he is ready to testify after the stage got set, the 18 people who will determine his fate have been seated in his hush money trial in new york, opening arguments will begin this monday. the big developments today come among them, the judge ruling that prosecutors will not have to give advance notice of the witness list to trump legal team because the former president cannot be trusted not to post about them. team trump will get one nam on sunday night. trump railing against the gag order imposed by the judge that limits what he can publicly say about witnesses. he says it is time to take the
prosecutor for cross-examination. pete: interesting. we will be watching. professor, thanks for your breakdown. trump railing against the lawfare campaign. this is a witch-hunt by numerous judges, democrat judges. you take a look at it, edge goran is a whack job a disgrace. whether it s judge caplin with a person i have no idea until they called and said they are suing us, i had no idea who this person was or this judge or if you look at engoron where he said that mar-a-lago, which if it was worth a billion or a billion and a half dollars he said it was worth $18 million. all over the world they are watching it and seeing it. this is a giant witch-hunt to try to hurt a campaign that s beating the worst president in history. pete: ned ryun american majority founder joining me now. ned, is he right?
brought the jury in for the first time, he did a neutral summary. this is a very, very fair judge, but the first substantive words that he said to the jury and i wrote about this for cnn opinion kenyan was that the prosecution alleges a conspiracy, criminal conspiracy to influence the 2016 presidential election. and i think you felt in the courtroom the stakes when the jurors started answering questions, everyone understands the gravity of it. and when donald trump got a little out of hand and and was gesticulating, rolling his eyes and carrying on as one juror was being questioned juror left the judge came down on him like a ton of bricks and wolf. i ve never seen donald trump, so dejected. he slumped in his seat. he is head was dropping you staring carrying in his lap. he felt the gravity as well certainly did laura, we ve spoken a lot about trump railing against
colorado s gop. those decisions are based on section three of the 14th amendment which was passed after the civil war and says a person is ineligible to run if quote have engaged in insurrection or given aid or comfort to the enemies thereof. now, tonight, another state weighing in. oregon s highest court asking trump and a liberal advocacy group for more details about the k case to block the president. these cases could put the nine supreme court justices at the center of the 2024 election to decide and decide kquickly, r rather to rest or sink trump s political ambitions. time is a major factor here. the primary frs colorado and maine are set for super tuesday and early march. for days, you ve heard trump railing against those colorado and maine decisions calling them desperate attempts to break the
president from talking about evidence. she is instead imposing a more limited order that publicly discussing material deemed sensitive by the government. trump railing against the case earlier this week, saying it infringes on his first amendment rights. the case is a ridiculous case. it s a first amendment case. but we don t want trump to speak. so they want me. they take away your right, your first amendment. now they sue because so i have one of these lunatic reporters back there. so sue would to talk to you about your case. i m sorry. i m not allowed to talk about it somehow. that s not good for votes. do you agree? when we say i can t talk. i judge that. i will talk about it. i will not take it away. my first amendment right judge to you on the first amendment question and the judge here siding mostly with the president. but i think it says a lot that the prosecution was trying to get him to essentially have a gag order. never underestimate the feds, they are notorio