it has been quite a week. michael beschloss is here to put it into perspective as the 11th hour gets underway on this friday night. greetings everyone, i m simone sanders townsend in for stephanie ruhle. donald trump s divisive and potentially dangerous rhetoric is about to be tested in court. monday morning a federal appeals court will weigh to lift a partial gap order imposed by judge tanya chutkan. who is overseeing the election interference case in washington d.c.. this afternoon judge chutkan denied the former presidents bid to strike references to the violence of january six from his indictment. that rule came just hours after we learned more about trump s own view of that day. and the rally on the ellipse. here s what he told abc s jonathan carl. a little bit more than two months after the insurrection. . who if you look at the real signs of that crowd it was never reported directly. it s the biggest crowd i ve ever spoken in front of by far that went back to the was