All in starts right now. Tonight on all in i do have a lot of surrogates and they are speaking very beautifully. They are highly respected. The red tie brigade comes to court. I am here and all of us are here as friends of donald trump. How trumps trial turned into a vp audition. The only thing being done wrong is the judge. Is trump using surrogates to violate the gag order . Tonight, ramifications for the defendant and what could happen in court tomorrow. Then donald trump lost two debates to me in 2020 and now he is acting like he wants to debate me again. Well, make my day, powell. President biden and donald trump come to terms, but will the debate happen . And there is good news on the Inflation Front on bidenomics. Senator Elizabeth Warren is here with that when all in starts now. Good evening from new york. I am in for chris hayes. Wellstar witness Michael Cohen testified at his new york trial yesterday, the former president was joined by the entourage of defenders. According to reporting from rolling stone, in the early days of the trial the former president was infuriated by a lack of visible support from his allies. Where are they, trump complained earlier this month . His allies now appear to have heard those complaints and showed up in force. Trump received visible support from multiple members of his family. His son, eric, along with daughterinlaw laura and a whos who of republican politicians. Surrogates included vivek ramaswamy, florida congressman north dakota governor doug burgum and even Speaker Of The House mike johnson. Trumps entourage was united in their message as they all spoke to the cameras. All of us are here as friends of donald trump, supporting him in our personal capacity. President donald trump is in a set of these charges. The American People have already acquitted donald trump. The judicial system has been weaponized. This trial is a joke. This is a harsh. Where is the crime . There is no crime. It is so corrupt and everyone knows that. Trumps surrogates also used time at the microphone to level attacks against a witness and even judge merchans family. They were saying what trump himself cannot, because he is under a gag order. I will talk more about that later in the show, but the other clear intention was to bring the campaign to the courthouse. Several surrogates were obviously auditioning for Vice President. All reportedly under consideration. The entire group in coordinating outfits with a dark suit and red tie even recorded a Fundraising Plea for trumps campaign, posted to social media. We are here in court with President Trump and standing with them, but we need you to stand with them. Support President Trump and his efforts to win this election. Democrats are not sent must be defeated. Anything you can give would make a world of difference. We are fighting the good fight. They cannot win. We need your help to make America Great again. Lets make America Great again and he is the man to do it. So, trumps entourage may have provided moral support. Politics was clearly the main purpose. We are joined now by congressman jamie raskin, democrat of maryland. First your impression of the Political Support you saw for the former president this week. Well, you know they are all attracted to the mecca of the courthouse in order to demonstrate sycophancy to donald trump and i think it is a good thing that they are identifying themselves. The people who completely allowed donald trump to devour their Critical Thinking skills and political and moral independence. Speaker johnson is a guy who has said that the bible is his Guiding Document and basically the Law Of The Land and yet he has made the pilgrimage to new york to demonstrate, you know, how obsequious he can be to donald trump. A guy who is now an adjudicated rapist, Adjudicated Fraudster in new york and is on trial for cooking the books for lots of money to cover up Hush Money Payments to his porn star mistress. I am a member of the free thought caucus and we have been saying all along that speaker johnsons adherence to religion is just a form of political tribalism. It doesnt have anything to do with religious principle and now he is showing the whole world that is true. Especially interesting since he is not on that long list of potential vp pics. How is the fact that you have all of these sitting members of congress traveling to new york to do Donald Trumps political bidding impacting the workflow of the u. S. House of representatives. Representatives . Well i know they had to move one farce, the scheduled hearing and markup session about Holding Attorney general garland in contempt for complying with their order and turning over the complete transcript of Donald Trumps interview with the special counsel. Now they have decided that is not enough. They dont want the verbatim transcript, they want the audiotape and to salvage the completely discredited and humiliating impeachment, they are trying to hold Merrick Garland in contempt. That was scheduled for tomorrow and we got noticed it was moved 8 00 him because a lot of members are traveling to new york so they can soothe Donald Trumps wounded feelings that nobody was there to support him. As you said, one farce crowding out the other. They are standing in the courtroom, all in the service of a second trump term. When we talk about the potential dangers of that possibility there is reporting about a maralago dinner. The former president promised to ease regulations on the oil industry while asking executives to steer 1 billion to his campaign. You have opened an investigation into that dinner. Which details do you hope to gather and how do you establish that as a quid pro quo . It is amazing how explicit all of this is. Hes basically saying to the oil and gas executives, pony up 1 billion which will go in some part to his campaign, but mostly probably to his lawyers and Legal Expenses and who knows how much makes its way back to the trump family. In any event he is saying give me 1 billion and im going to reverse the Biden Administration actions on liquefied natural gas. I am going to, you know, blow the roof off the house in terms of allowing you to drill wherever you want to drill and so on and Everybody Knows where donald trump stands, but it is almost as if he wants to walk right up to the line of criminal bribery and state what the quid pro quo is. Obviously there can be no criminal or civil action before the election. We look at the trials taking place now based on things that transpired several years ago, but at least the public can see this for what it is. Donald trump is saying at events if you want to come up and make a speech, give me 1 million and i will let you do it. And people say yes. Two people jumped up on that stage, congressman. That in itself might be a campaignfinance violation. Again, we have a kind of dysfunctional relationship at the fec because republicans block action, but he asked for 1 million, which is more than all of the different elements he could actually be soliciting for. Again, i dont want to place too much faith in the legal system, the campaignfinance regime. Im putting my faith in the people. The people have got to understand what is going on. We have contrasting schools of thought about what government is and one says government must be an instrument for The Common Good for all of the people in the other says government is a simple moneymaking operation, an instrument for private Self Enrichment for the guy who gets in and his family and his businesses and that is what the gop has become and that is the scandal and the shame of all of these republicans who are, you know, taking the metro liner up to new york so they can prove to donald trump how much they love him. They may be learning the wonders of amtrak. Congressman jamie raskin, thank you so much as always for getting us started. The washington correspondent for new York Magazine. Tim obrien is Senior Executive editor for Bloomberg Opinion and the author of trump nation. Joining me now, on your day off, guys, really . You choose to be here. Here is the thing that gets me. The continuity of the graft, right . He begins as a grifter. The graft carries through the campaign and he almost teaches his supporters to follow in his script. The fact they are now doing campaign ads inside the courthouse so they can raise money not for down ballot republicans as the rnc would traditionally do, but rather for his own Legal Defense fund and this thing for the Oil Executives and it is not just what he is doing as a candidate, but what he imagines himself doing as president. Promoting a Legal Defense fund when they dont know what they will do with the money. He is not going to use, i think, any of the federal funds or funds going into the general accounts to do any down ballot support. It will all be for trump to use as he wishes and some of it undoubtedly will be used to pay his legal bills. And i think that this is generations of drifting coming home. Donald learned this from his don his father, fred. He ran his business this way as you noted and the party is being run this way and then you have a series of politicians from the party of the rule of law, showing up at a criminal fraud trial to give him support and going after the judges daughter, going after the Legal Process at a time when all of these institutions are under fire already and on top of it part of the prosecution involves donald trump overtly, i dont think there is any doubt in the evidence coming in that he had a relationship and mike johnson, a christian minister, is ignoring that to offer support. So the graft is financial, the graft is pervasive. Our colleague, stephanie ruhle, she has an exclusive interview with senator romney. He weighed in on the fact all of these republicans are showing up outside the courthouse. Take a listen. I think it is terrible for our country to see people attacking our legal system. That is an enormous mistake. I think it is also demeaning for people to try to run for Vice President by donning a red tie and standing outside the courthouse. I would have felt awkward. And yet the cheese stands alone, as he so often does. What he is saying is about the institutions and undermining the institutions and the fact that that will have a longer tail than donald trump himself. It is interesting. I was thinking about the republican members of congress and they all looked like trump. Sitting in their suits, looking rather ridiculous and you see that outside the courthouse, but what that says to me is the Trump Takeover of one of our two major parties is basically complete. Lara trump is the nominal chair of the rnc. Being chair of the rnc is a boring, administrative job. We talked to people who know about the inner workings of that place. They dont think she is running the day today, but nevertheless the image of her, someone with no experience to do this, in charge of a major party, is significant. To see these people taking time off of work, even if congress is out and coming to kiss the ring, treating it basically like maralago or trump tower, at any other time in trumps rise is pretty pathetic. Especially when you factor in the veep of it all. Every time people are on stage he flirts with them and makes them think they are potentially on the list. When you listen to these guys a crucial element of it. He is at heart a reality star. He helped define what that medium was in america and globally and that is how he has campaigned. Since the bullet since the beginning of his political rise. What are you watching for tomorrow . I think todd blanche is about 10 seconds to get his reputation intact because he gave a very poor Cross Examination of Michael Cohen. Making it about himself . Not just making it about himself, he was bouncing around from topic to topic. He brought up all of these names that Michael Cohen uses on social media, which i dont know that the jury cares about. The jury needs a coherent narrative that breaks down Michael Cohens credibility and basically undermines him as a credible source of information and instead these attempted gotchas. He said you are known as a fixer and i think Michael Cohen said right. He said are you fixing your problems or other peoples problems and i think cohen said both or Something Like that and he hopped onto the next point and did not connect that to any other points he was making. Trials, like campaigns are about storytelling. Whether or not you think they have been convincing where it is going to work, they have presented a pretty clear narrative and so far there is not really a Counter Narrative presented by the defense. And you know Michael Cohen would be an easy witness to fillet and supposedly todd blanche prepared months for this crossexamination and it just does not show. His voice is shaky, he looks uncomfortable and the other problem is he has a client who does not want him to do a proper crossexamination. A client who wants him to stand up and destroy and insult the witness and sort of carry trumps emotional water and that does not make for a good crossexamination either. He has a client that is so problematic in many ways. Thank you for being with us. Coming up, as Donald Trumps trial nears its conclusion, could he face additional penalties for using his toadies to get around the gag order . That is next. Next. If you have Chronic Kidney Disease you can reduce the risk of Kidney Failure with farxiga. Because there are places youd like to be. Farxiga can cause serious side effects, including ketoacidosis that may be fatal, dehydration, urinary tract, or genital yeast infections, and low blood sugar. A rare, lifethreatening bacterial infection in the skin of the perineum could occur. 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The judges own daughter is making millions of dollars doing Online Fundraising for democrats. You have a judge whose kids are collecting money from democratic operatives, by fundraising off the very trial that judges presiding over. The only thing being done wrong is by this judge. His daughter is making money for democrats. If trump is behind these attacks, how is this not a violation of his gag order . Running me now, two people closely following the trial. Andrew rice is a contributing editor at new York Magazine. Anna bower is a correspondent at laffaire. Help me understand the timeline of what it is you witnessed. You saw him annotating, making notes on their remarks. It is hard to speculate exactly what is going on, but after lunch time on monday as i noted in my new York Magazine article when i read about this, trump was actually going through a printed out sheaf of papers that had quotes from individuals including jd vance. Jd vance had been in the courtroom. One of the quotes said Something Like what is going on in this courtroom is a threat to american democracy. This, in fact, is something jd vance said outside the courtroom. The timing of it was that the speech was given maybe an hour before trump was going through this. He was going through and making notations. Probably trying to figure out what kind of things he might want to put on truth social later, i dont know. But the overall point is that everything happening in that courtroom is very coordinated. All of the messaging is coordinated, almost like a Political Convention in which Convention Speeches happen, but no one says anything on the Convention Stage that the nominee doesnt want them to say. I think they are all saying Talking Points that are things that donald trump would like to be saying if he did not feel confined by the gag order. I am struck that some of those things are about the jud