receives also tie attorney general garland under oath, facing republican allegations of weaponizing the justice system of those inflammatory claims stand up against the actual facts. and as the president takes executive action on god documented migrants. a story you ll only see here how one man has taken the issue into his own hands. what he encounters in his knights on the border good evening. thanks for joining us. begin with breaking news request late today from the former president s legal team to lift the gag order. now that a jury has found him guilty on all 34 felony counts of falsifying business records to keep word of its hush money payment to stormy daniels from reaching voters in the 2016 election? as you know, gag order or not, he s already said plenty about the judge. the judge s daughter, and witnesses in the case. now his lawyers are seeking free rein. cnn s kara canal is here with the tails also join his best-selling author and former federal prosecutors, je
knights on the border good evening. thanks for joining us. we begin with breaking news request late today. today from the former president s legal team to lift the gag order. now that a jury has found him guilty in all 34 felony counts of falsifying business records to keep word of his hush money payment to stormy daniels from reaching voters in the 2016 election. as you know, gag order or not, he s already said plenty about the judge. the judge s daughter, and witnesses in the case he s now his lawyers are seeking free rein, seen as keras canal is here with the tails also joining us bestselling author and former federal prosecutors, jeffrey thuban, and retired new york judge joel kahn visor, longtime friend of the trial judge in the case. so what does the trump team want so trump s team is saying now that the trial is over and the gag order that was put in place to protect the witnesses jury from trump s comments now that it s over there saying that the judge should lift t
in fact when they were holding merrick garland in contempt, a couple of weeks ago, they had many members absent, some of which were absent because they weren t manhattan standing outside the courthouse, essentially paying field t once again, to donald trump they hope to avert a conviction now that there are multiple, multiple convictions, they re just tearing everything down and doing such enormous damage you ll one of the questions i didn t have a chance to ask merrick garland today is what s the effect in courthouses around the country? undoubtedly. and i ve heard this from prosecutors. you have defendants making the trumpian argument that they re prosecutions r0, which aren t there a hoax there, a sham attacking the fbi and the same language that donald trump, it is enabled on the committee are using and this is really undermining the rule of law everywhere the level of dysfunction in these hearings. i mean, we ve seen look for for a long time. we ve seen in
subject of sex trafficking case so they understand how the system works, but they wish to mislead the public they want. us somehow obscured the fact that they re about to be nominee is now a convicted felon and they re willing to tear down the justice system and do what ever is necessary in the service of that deeply flawed human being. you said that in the hearing that s what you think is at the heart of this, that they re freaked out essentially over trump s conviction and are trying to figure out how to deal with it absolutely. and not just in committee, but so many of them in fact when they were holding merrick garland and contempt, a couple of weeks ago they had many members absence, some of which were absent because they weren t manhattan standing outside the courthouse, essentially paying field t once again to donald trump. they hope to avert a conviction now that there are multiple, multiple convictions they re