you know, there s a word for what happened in new york, in a courtroom today. and that word is a latin term. it s bonkers. tonight, on laura coates live. i have been waiting to talk to you guys about this all day. what a day in court today. donald trump clashing with the judge, loudly talking during e. jean carroll s testimony. loud enough to be heard two rows away. claiming it is a witch hunt and a con job. shaking his head, throwing his hands up in the air. i do that, too. it was quite a performance. one that didn t fool the judge, not even for a millisecond or a new york minute, i guess you say. here is something you usually don t hear in a courtroom. the judge says he hopes he won t have to kick trump out of court. and trump responded, i would love it. the judge, i know you would. of course, he likely would. his goal is not maybe to win in court. it s to win at the campaign. frankly, if we re being honest, it s working with him and the polls. let s not forget. this is a
school now. because in a way, we have all become law students. how could all of this legal trouble just maybe fade away? i will explain to you, but don t worry. no pop quiz. no socratic method. that s all coming up. but first, i want to look at what we have learned just in the past few hours. first, kenneth chesbro coming back to maybe haunt the former president. he is the ex-pro trump lawyer whose claim to fame is helping to cook up the fake elector s plot and who pleaded guilty to one count of conspiracy in the election interference case. well now, he is talking to investigators in michigan, nevada, wisconsin as well as georgia. if we were in an old time gangster movie, you could say he was singing like a canary. this is what he told michigan prosecutors about a photo op gone wrong in the oval office way back in december of 2020. i ended up explaining that arizona was still hypothetically possible. it was i think clear in a way that maybe hadn t been before that we had un
we have heard it from trump himself by the way. something a little different when sean hannity asked him if he could abuse power as retribution. he said you re not going to be a dictator are you. i said no. we are closing the border and drilling. okay, the big question tonight, are there any guardrails left? here tonight, someone who may have the answers. joining me now is eric holder, former u.s. attorney general under president obama.. i m so glad you are here. i served as a prosecutor while you were the attorney general. there is a lot that happened since those moments and there is new news tonight before we get into all we want to talk about tonight. there is new news about hunter biden. there is an additional indictment. a new nine-count indictment against him. it includes three felony counts for failure to pay taxes in california and he is accused broadly of a four-year scheme. this one to avoid paying $1.9 million. this comes after the plea offer and plea deal blew
so he was kidding. that was a joke.edia, but in the americann isan that there are no jokes. humor has been banned forik several years now in this point and we re likely to hear a joke on a russian news broadcast that on american television, which is pretty amazing if youam think about it. things have changed in case the readers of teleprompter on our tv channels did not get this joke at all. so here s the coverage c they produced. this is cnn breaking news. we re back with more onbr the breaking news just out of ukraine. president zelenskye. saying ukraine has been informed that this wednesdayor the 16thay will be o the day of the attack. ukraine s president zelensky addressing his nation today about reports intelligence picked up that actual date for an attack of wednesday, telling them w that he is told that february 16th will be the day of the attack.. president s zelensky saying that his government has been told february 16th will be the day of a possible attack