speaking to that judge and manhattan da alvin bragg who attended court in person today. trump will again be here in person as is inquired for every day of his trial. >> martha: thank you very much nate. a lawyer for former president trump is also a republican candidate for missouri attorney general. good to have you here today. >> great to be with you. thank you for having me. >> martha: let's start with this. this is the reaction over at cnn with regard to what we just heard from the former president that this is all -- the former president saying this all came from the white house and this is all election oriented to keep him off of the trail and here's what their analyst said. watch this. >> we keep hearing this claim from donald trump that this and all prosecutions are product of joe biden's white house. we have said and i will say again that is false in here it's demonstrably false. >> martha: what do you say to that sir?