Good evening, im laura coates. Thank you for joining me this friday evening. Tonight, donald trump is on some thin ice. In the first hearing with the judge in his third indictment, the one over Election Interference, she warned the former president about his rhetoric and his agreement, by the way, not to intimidate witnesses in order to stay a free man. But she also favored some of the arguments by his attorneys, for example, on whether evidence can be discussed publicly. More on that whole dramatic Courtroom Scene in just a moment. First, hunter biden. Hes likely going to trial. Attorney general Merrick Garland effectively appointed a Special Counsel in the guns and taxes investigation of the president s son. Youll recall there was a plea deal, and it also recently broke down. And weve talked about the questions surrounding how that could have happened. Even a judge that questioned the terms of the agreement with the doj. Before we get to all of that analysis, youre probably thinking,
in the wake of the queen s death, her grandchildren have remembered her as a wonderful granny. the public going to great lengths to honor the queen. those who wish to file past her coffin are braving 24 hour wait times, wining te ing winding thd weathering the cold. and they thanked people for their support. richard quest is joining us. we knew the reaction would be massive, but i suppose this is bigger than anyone could have imagined. yes, i think that is exactly right and it is probably right and fitting bearing in mind the length of her majesty s rein. what i m touched by, every shop that i go past have a tribute in its window, whether an expression of condolence, everywhere you go, there is some reminder that this country has lost its sovereign and has really lost a bit of its anchor in the number of places that will be shut on monday. things that you wouldn t think about necessarily. so for example, gyms are closing because they want people to be able to to they wa
he s his worst enemy. i actually think the hearing was generally positive for him, i think the judge gave him a lot of latitude saying only highly sensitive topics you can t share. i think it s going to be extremely difficult for him to control himself. we ve seen defendants awaiting trial who get their liberties revoked because they do things like say things that could be construed as intimidating conditionses or trying to taint a jury pool. usually they re not a former president running again for president. with this platform or the megaphone that he ll have. on the other hand, let s flip that around, because maybe if you re his defense counsel, you want him talking, you want to muddy the waters, you want to be able to try to suggest this is political speech. what is a candidate to do besides criticize what he perceives might remove him from the campaign trail? yeah, look, he is a singular defendant in this regard. his ability to speak in a mass way to all of america allows him t
anticipate more gets infected. the judge could have to wait it out and reconvene after they re over it. i was surprised that the judge did what she did and telling the jurors that she has a concern. as the defense noted, she s telling them to hurry up, which could cause an appellate issue should there be a conviction. trace: she said i m not trying to rush you but we would like to get this over with. a lawyer that represented several victims an acquittal would not surprise me. it s a difficult case. the prosecution put on really good conditionses. the defense did a good job of poking holes in some of them. sounds like the jury is struggling a bit here. your take. yeah, as a prosecutor, i wouldn t be happy. i m getting hit or all angles here, trace. number 1, they want read back on all of the important testimony including victims and the 404 witnesses, which is the heart of the government s case.
of the weapon have a live round in it when they shouldn t have had a live round in it? that those are the questions that they ll be asking, the sheriff and the da s office will be drilling down as to how in the world this could have happened and injured another person on top of it. so by the way, it also at least preliminarily didn t involve another actor. it s not like it was in the middle of the shooting, the shooting of the film. no very good point. yes. and they have to reconstruct where every person on the set was standing at the point that this happened. right now they re asking everyone of them all of these conditionses to recount exactly what they saw from their vantage point when this happened. so as i said, this is just such a shocking, shocking story. halyna hutchins, our heart goes out to her husband and child and the career she was gaining so