Wasnt just showing up for court. Numerous january 6th cases have been heard. The judge overseeing trumps arraignment has also overseen the cases of people including dominic fox and Qanon Activist who live streamed the storming of the capitol, a jared wise, a former fbi agent charged with assaulting a Police Officer on january 6th. This is all very much a Trip Down Memory Lane for mr. Trump. Now, there were no Courtroom Cameras today, but thanks to courtroom sketch artist bill hennessy, we know what it looks like when a former president of the United States appeared in court to be formally and federally charged for trying to subvert american democracy. There were more than 110 people in the courtroom to hear this arraignment including several of the federal judges who have been presiding over other january 6th cases, judges who showed up today in plain clothes as spectators for trumps arraignment. The judge presiding over the arraignment was a New York State judge inasmuch he read the c
The days biggest political and news stories, with interviews and reporting from around the nation. Box with maybe trump junior and several other people. Youre using a fancy word as you often do, inculpates for makes them look really suspicious and guilty. Glenn, let me play for you the way mr. Credico tried to limit his exposure to other people that could figure in as subjects or targets. This was on the subject of mr. Roger stone. Take a look. And youre in there as an associate, im not implying anything negative about you, but as a known associate of roger stone and julian assange. Dont say associating of stone. I know stone. What word would you use . Someone that has worked with stone before but not an associate. A former colleague . No. Ive worked on a campaign or two with roger stone in the past. 16 years ive known the guy. It sounds like youre going up from associate, not down. Glenn . So, ari, let me Say Something that you might not hear a lot of people say, but this is probably
from the defense counsel table. the lead defense attorney for donald trump started loud and only got louder and he asked twice to take the temperature down. he was arguing passionately about why he contended that he needed two years to prepare the case for trial. he opened with, neither of the two trial dates that have been proposed, january by the prosecution or april 2026 proposed by the defense. neither are appropriate. i was expecting a splitting of the difference. here is how it sort of played out. she gave the defense team several opportunities to come up with a more realistic proposed to trial date. he refused to budge even one month or one day. by the end of the hearing, what
to have an argument about discovery. and she in the words of glenn kirschner, these judges have come to play. the fact they re like we re going to set the trial date in three weeks indicative of people not wasting time. can we talk about lawyers for one moment? i don t know if you noticed the reporting evan corcoran was in the courtroom today apparently still affiliated somehow with donald trump and his defense team. evan corcoran for people who have forgotten, is sort of almost like a star witness in the mar-a-lago case from which he had to recuse himself. do you think it s odd that trump is keeping evan corcoran in the mix, as it were, given how wouldn t you want to? it s not clear he was acting as defense counsel. he s not sitting at defense counsel table, but he s there as sort of a quasi-supporter in the same way boris epstein. you think keep your friends
we want the best for them. i do think that the president, however, may also find himself someday as a co-defendant with his son at defense counsel table. now, i don t know if bob mueller do you think that would be before or after the term of his presidency? well, ari, i don t know that bob mueller will take the narrow path to indicting a president that i think is arguably available. he would have to seek an exception to the olc memo that sets out as a policy matter that the department of justice doesn t believe a sitting president can be indicted. you re saying something significant and you re saying as a legal matter. i take your analysis to be not that you don t like donald trump or you disagree with his policies, but as a very seasoned federal prosecutor, you believe there is potential joint legal criminal exposure for him and his son. i do. and a pathway to get there even while he s sitting. but bob mueller might not want to go near that third rail. instead he might split