purpose. a legal purpose. the enterprise does not have to be and illegal on. the school administrators were clearly part of this legal enterprise. she has had success using it for school administrators, teachers. she has used it for gang cases. it is not just for organized crime as we think about the mom. that is why it is created. now it has been extended to any complex any complex group of persons she s going to charge that if it is appropriate catherine christian, thank you so much for jumping on this. we appreciate you. while all of this is breaking, the former president united states has arrived in iowa. it is his first public appearance since his judge in the public appearance case issued a protective order on friday. you can see him through the crowd there. there he is emerging amongst the crowd. of, course that order restricting the discussion of some discovery evidence. warning trump that inflammatory remarks could speed up the trial. joining us from des moines as
it was as predicted. i mean, i knew he would not be able to help himself. he is a very dangerous person, and he is always, whenever he perceives himself as a person, he fights back, and he does that by threatening people and frequently his supporters respond to that. but this is a very serious case. and his actions are weighty and serious and i do hope that the judge really takes a close look at trump s history in this regard. well, and that leads me to this question. should the judge in this case consider warning trump that he could go to jail if he continues to make these kinds of threats? you know, the judge already admonished trump, his lawyers were there with him. they know the risks involved. and yet trump continues to push the boundaries of what s acceptable. i have complete faith in the
everything like that to rely on and everybody who has been in there watching it. but i think she did a good job from what is being reported. what about the judge warning trump about his posts on social media? saying it could open trump up to a new potential liability. what does that mean? i mean, that is right. this is like the alex jones issue when that trial was going on and he would stand on the courthouse steps and pontificate when he wasn t on the stand. so that is an issue. you can t taint the public. the jury is supposed to be shielded from anything that is going on outside of the case. they are supposed to just pay attention to this case. it could open him up potentially for a new seuit. this could be new penalty in trying to sway the jurors. it s on brand and i don t think no one is necessarily surprised but it opens up a host of issues
then, she says, he assaulted her, an accusation she described before. i fought. it hurt. it was against my will. reporter: she confided in two friends when it happened one who advised her to go to the police the other said stay quiet. quote, he has 200 lawyers. he ll bury you carroll never went to the police, something trump s defense team hammered in opening statements tuesday instead, she filed a civil suit for battery last year using a new law that gives survivors of sexual assault a one-year window to file claims, even when the statute of limitations has passed she s also suing trump for defamation, pointing to this post on truth social last fall, where he called her story a hoax and a lie. other posts from trump calling the case a scam, drawing a rebuke from the judge presiding over the trial, warning trump s defense attorney, such comments are, quote, entirely inappropriate. nbc s laura jarrett with that report trump commented on the case yesterday before carroll took the s
he went after me on the plane. yeah, i m going to go after. believe me, she would not be my first choice that i can tell you. man. you don t know that would not be my first choice take a look. you take a look. look at her. look at her words. you tell me what you think i don t think so i don t think so kristen, the woman who was, quote, he went after on the plane, is going to testify jessica leads trump grabbed her breasts and tried to reach up her skirt on a flight to new york more than three decades ago. a woman named natasha who alleged that trump pushed her against a wall and forced his tongue down her throat while she was on a reporting trip to mar-a-lago in 2005 the access hollywood tape is coming in. what s the significance of that? this is a civil trial and not a criminal trial i assume that s why these things can come in. yeah. if you remember, this also this prior act evidence also came in the criminal trials of crosby which i prosecuted as well as in weinstein