and disregard them, the jury, as subjected to them, may not. the court shall not permit the defendant to turn the courtroom into a forum in which trump inject politics into this proceeding. jack smith then kicks off a highlight reel of trump s favorite spurious arguments, things like, trump, quotes complaints about the jury indictment and the trial date will interfere with his political activities. or trump s quote, false accusation was directed at the former president. jack smith also takes issue with some of the trump s favorite catch phrases like the injustice department or biden indictment. all of it, jack smith says, would taint a jury pool. quote, the in addition t being wrong, these allegations are irrelevant to the jury s determination of the defendant s guilt or innocence. it would be prejudicial if presented to the jury. put another way, the trump defense was, quote, repeatedly used rhetoric that made the acceptable on the campaign but not on the trial. make no mi
who has to answer what he said about donald trump basically for the rest of his career? well, i think that one of the reasons that mike pence actually jumped into the race was because he was so vulnerable as a governor in indiana. and he knew he was going to lose. i do think short of a billionaire that has the exact same attitude of donald trump, it actually doesn t matter if the folks that are right now the base of donald trump actually care about pence. because at the end of the day, the republican establishment is going to put their money and their machine behind someone like mike pence. and they need to in order to win the white house. and i guess that is right now the challenge within the republican party. let s listen to mike pence during his victory lap with rush limbaugh today. you laughed at the first one where trump s mad at you because you put pressure on him for making him have to work even harder this sunday because you did so well. and he lost because you won. here
regard information like that? i wouldn t advise them at all because i don t know what his returns looked like at that point. but you do think it s important for voters you re talking 30 years ago. but you do think that it s important for voters to be able to see the candidate s tax returns? i do. and as i understand it, you haven t heard anything from candidate trump that prevents him from releasing those tax returns? no. okay. jack mitnick, thank you very much for joining us tonight. i really appreciate it. oh, you re welcome. david cay johnston is going to stay was. and kurt eichenwald will join us with his latest report on donald trump s finances. that s next.
donald trump, on the other hand, didn t know that russia had invaded the crimea. oh, that s nonsense. he is not going to go into ukraine. you can mark it down. you can put it down. you can take it any way you want. well, he is already there, isn t he? donald trump has said it. deportation force. they want to go house to house, school to house, business to business and kick out 16 million people. and i cannot believe that s not true. you re going to have a deportation force. donald trump and i would never support legislation that punished women. should the woman be punished for having an abortion? there has to be some form of punishment. and so here we are 24 hours later, and the content that tim kaine delivered in the debate went completely unchallenged by republicans today. but mike pence was proven to have lied repeatedly in the debate. a cnn focus group that watched the debate, but did not watch the post debate analysis where so many people judged mike pence
and this is what he said about the people he had at trump castle and trump plaza. this is a quote from donald trump. he said, i ve got black accountants at trump castle and at trump plaza, black guys counting my money. i hate it. the only kind of people i want counting my money are short guys that wear yarmulkes every day. those are the kind of people i want counting my money, nobody else. what is your reaction to that? it s a preposterous statement, but it was something he said. does it surprise you? is it the kind of thing you might have heard donald trump say? yes. and i want to go to the notion that donald trump cannot release his tax returns, his most recent tax return because its under audit. the irs said clearly that s not