developments from trump s many legal problems. we begin with developments about the former president s rough time in court over fraud today. closing arguments underway in the case against trump and his two eldest sons in the entire allegedly fraudulent trump organization. you can see trump in atep dance. he s been in more courtrooms than campaign events. he turned towards cameras every time he could. he lashed out at the judge and the attorney general. and he did his set of grievances. there were closing arguments on behalf of donald trump by trump himself got involved briefly. as we reported on this program yesterday here on msnbc, donald trump is a civil defendant here. his request to speak during closing arguments or give some sort of grand closing statement, that was denied by the judge for a simple reason. donald trump s own lawyers basically refsed the rules that would bar personal attacks. you can see some of the court sketches as that was all dealt with. now the judge
interesting year. certainly far more surprising on many issues than i would expect, far more interesting and in some respects much more frustrating. there s such obvious and common sense solutions to so many of our problems that unfortunately we can t get the majority to discuss with us. it is it s nice, at least for me and myself to be in the arena, to be trying to move the needle forward, trying to get results, trying to expose these republican investigations for the complete bogus shams they are so the american people can truly see which party is out to do good for them and which party is out for itself and that very clearly right now is the republican party. we are hoping to flip the house in november, take over the keep the senate, keep the presidency and get some legislation passed. congressman goldman, good to
advancing a real legal claim or doing pyrotechnics on behalf of the defendant trump? i don t want to comment on it. i heard the former acting solicitor general characterize that argument in the strict legal term that he called a joke and neil s a smart lawyer. there you have it. sometimes it s crisp. david quoting neil. i want to thank david kelly is my former law firm boss. i didn t mention that earlier. emily, tim, i appreciate you joining us. we ve been doing our programming notes. our friend and colleague lawrence o donnell is holding a special front tracking all the legal cases with, quote, defendant donald trump. when we come back, we have congressman goldman here and a lot going on and also why the donald trump we ve seen recently
impeachment against president biden. while there are limited questions about the secrecy surrounding defense secretary lloyd austin about his health problems. some house republicans are calling for his impeachment too. it s a theme. we re joined by congressman dana goldman of new york. why so much impeachment? it seems to be en vogue. it s retribution, ari, for the fact that donald trump was impeached two times. what you see in the house, and it s different in the senate, this house republican majority is completely controlled by donald trump. they re operating at his direction with marjorie taylor greene and maga mike johnson leading the charge. they want to distract from the fact that they can t govern,