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a very important friday. we will reconvene the courthouse gang for this hour to go over what we have all been through and, alex, just a word about a banana republic. i despise the term and have despised it for so long now because it carries the assumption that countries that grow bananas, and we know where they are, somehow inherently have inferior governments to ours. which we have proven many times before is not true and nothing proves that better than the trump years and, oh, by the way, we grow bananas in hawaii. agriculturally and ethically, great points, lawrence, as always. thanks, alex. have a great show. thanks. well, it was a one word sentence that changed donald trump s life. he wasn t expecting to hear that word yesterday. at 4:15 p.m., judge merchan told defendant donald trump and his lawyers, the prosecutors in the courtroom, quote, i m going to excuse the jury about 4:30. we will give them a few more minutes and then we will excuse them. donal ....
, the better it is for the defense and so, donald trump and todd blanche were nearly giddy that the jury was going to go home for a second day. without reaching a verdict. donald trump that he was going home without a verdict today. he just had about 15 minutes to kill, and what we saw was a donald trump at that defense table we ve never seen before. he was joking, laughing, smiling with todd blanche. they were chatting and laughing almost incessantly. todd blanche laughing so hard at one point doubling over so that his four head almost touch the table in front of him. they thought they were going home today without a verdict. it was almost a jubilant, giddy donald trump but that changed very quickly when the judge merchan came back to inform the parties that the jury had reached verdict. the jury had a verdict after only nine hours of deliberation, which is not a long deliberation for a 34 count indictment and so donald trump watched his jury under the courtroom fo ....
Came in. when they knew there was a verdict you could see them start to separate a little bit. in that moment trumps body language was pinched, straightahead. there was no more leaning on todd blanche, joking with todd blanche. they were like this. it was like the parting of the red sea in that moment. i want to explain to our audience at the outset why our seating arrangement looks a little different tonight. i have been in boston since wednesday morning, involved in some college reunion activities and andrew weissmann is grandly occupying what would usually be my chair in that studio and doing so in a way that makes me feel like it is time for me to get out of the way and let them keep that chair. andrew, this verdict, you have seen so many verdicts come in. you know the tension of the moment and as a prosecutor when you re sitting at the table and you hear the first few guilty s coming in, you probably have a ....
You are sitting at that table and you hear the first few guilty s coming in and, you probably have a good idea of the rest of what is coming, but prosecutors don t start high- fiving right there in front of the jury. it is one of those moments where even the winners are trying to contain themselves, maybe a little nudge to each other about having won, but it is not some big moment of full expression of what it feels like for a prosecutor. well, there is no question, i think, that a season prosecutor would tell you that if you are gleeful upon a verdict, you are in the wrong profession. that is not the right reaction and obviously i m not sure of you when you first started out, you may not have had that but i think there is a lot of pain that is involved in that, ....