then we were divided in 2020. so, the way i would go about it is very direct and very simple. that there is no bad opinion. you want to express your opinion in this country, express it i want to hear. and then everybody gets a round table and resolve our issues. one of the time. the same way we used to do at dinner parties for the last eight or ten years. it wasn t like there weren t political differences to discuss. it s just that people did not start throwing their cutlery and it was a little more civilized. and it was not as if our democracy was at stake. see, in the end if you make everything a crisis, and it will be. and i heard the president today, joe biden earlier today talking about how he was concerned about democracy of donald trump getting elected again. and then i heard donald trump yelling and screaming about how badly he s been treated, these two guys need to stop worrying so much about themselves and start worrying about you. my approach to being president wou
to this that is not constructive in our country. joe biden looked all of us in the eye in 2020 and said, elect me and i ll bring us together. and then he ran far left and abandoned most of the country philosophically. so, how could he be the uniter in a second term? a second term all he ll do is keep doing what he s doing, which is dividing the country even more than we were divided in 2020. so, the way i would go about it is very direct and very simple, that there is no bad opinion. you want to express your opinion in this country, express it. i want to hear it. and then everybody gets around the table and resolves our issues one at a time. the same way we used to do at dinner parties before the last eight or ten years. wasn t like there weren t political differences discussed. it s just people didn t start throwing the cutlery. it was a little more civilized. and it wasn t as if our democracy was at stake. see, in the end, if you make everything a crisis, then it will be. a
big breaking news stories this morning. donald trump s hush money trial resuming moments ago, and the judge just issued a ruling on gag order violations. finding trump in contempt. we ll have the latest from the courthouse. we re also tracking breaking news from columbia university, protesters storming and occupying a campus building overnight. the new warning from the school this morning. good morning. it is 10:00 eastern. i m ana cabrera reporting from new york. we begin with our breaking news at the courthouse in lower manhattan, where the second week of witness testimony just resumed in donald trump s hush money trial. and the judge starting the day with a new decision on trump s gag order violations, ruling just moments ago that trump did in fact violate the gag order nine times. and fining him $1,000 for each of the violations. let s bring in nbc news correspondent vaughn hillyard, former prosecutor charles coleman, and attorney and loyola law school professor jessi
it s true. i mean, in terms of finding someone represent, it s not easy. it s not easy because many lawyers he s already representative are themselves having to get attorneys, and whether it s prosecuted, find, et cetera. that s why corcoran, of course, has i m sure, has that recorded audio footage that is essentially in full sway mode, knowing what happened with michael cohen and beyond to suggest, look, i m gonna contemporaneously record what i ve said. i will say, keep a look out, if corcoran does ultimately testified a trial, a cross-examination point will be, well, he recorded this, but you didn t resign from actually being his attorney at that point in time. so, there will be questions about the tenure of his actual relationship, but it s a very interesting point that they re trying to make sure that there is coverage in that respect. so, are we going to start to see, scott, any change in the gop field? we saw a little bit of a shift, nikki haley, right, on the eve of t
Representative are themselves having to get attorneys, and whether it s prosecuted, find, et cetera. that s why corcoran, of course, has i m sure, has that recorded audio footage that is essentially in full sway mode, knowing what happened with michael cohen and beyond to suggest, look, i m gonna contemporaneously record what i ve said. i will say, keep a look out, if corcoran does ultimately testified a trial, a cross-examination point will be, well, he recorded this, but you didn t resign from actually being his attorney at that point in time. so, there will be questions about the tenure of his actual relationship, but it s a very interesting point that they re trying to make sure that there is coverage in that respect. so, are we going to start to see, scott, any change in the