designed to potentially intimidate the aspects of the justice system that he believes are conspireing against him. that s really alarming and the judge is going to be walking a difficult tight rope this entire trial. just remind people what trump does to people that make him mad. let me take one step back. look at that dog whistle when he says there s an invasion, people go shoot up walmarts in texas. when he says there s a great replacement, people go shoot up grocery stores in new york. when he says an election was stolen, they storm the capitol. that was just when he s using his dog whistle and doing a wink, nod that he wants his supporters to do something. when donald trump directly identifies an enemy and directly highlights who is is turned against him, he ruins people s lives in their entirety. what sort of poetic in a about this trial is you will see him sitting across from michael cohen, whether you agree or not with the charges that michael cohen faced ask the time he
it. they have got security to get up to the floor. it s not like they are not trying and they are not i paying attention, and they are not there. but you saw what happened today when all of them are there. it s incredible. will you be back on monday with us? i will. tell us what happened every day. that s your chair. frank, vaughn, thank you. susan craig, thank you. a reminder for headlines and analysis of the trial, you can subscribe to the deadline legal newsletter. scan the qr code so you can have it delivered to your inbox. up next for us, our reporter is outside the courthouse making her way to the cam a ra. more on the last hour of the hearing. another quick break. don t go anywhere. we ll be right back. break. don t go anywhere. we ll be right back.
stories about him disparaging the men and women of the military, calling them suckers and losers. he doesn t seem to care about the facts of january 6th coming out. he was reported by two people i was talking to at the time to care very much about the material covered by stormy daniels. these are things that get right up into his stuff. reporter: absolutely. get him respond. look, we ve got opening statements that i believe just are literally that commercial break, the judge announcing saying, quote, we re going to have opening statements on monday morning. this trial is starting. and donald trump, he has tried to avoid this moment. his legal team has fought on his behalf, his most defense lawyers will try to do to avoid these moments, to avoid these circumstances here. and yet even just here in the last 30 minutes, his team trying to put forward several pre-motion motions in front of the judge to which the judge snapped back saying, quote, i have handed down decisions,
day they know this testimony is coming out in the trial and they might as well inoculate themselves and get ready right now. and i want to bring the rev in on this. david pecker is the witness we don t talk about as much because he hasn t said as much in the public arena. you don t have a relationship with david pecker if you re not hiding something. you must look at david pecker because i think that he is a key to if you engaged in this, we re going to pay somebody to hide this story. it already shows the kinds of steps you would take to try and win, and even if it is in if not illegal, certainly unethical ways. you re going to actually engage in a deal as donald trump has done, with pecker to say somebody comes to something bad, buy the story and hide it. well, there s not much of a leap to go from there to saying i want to change and falsify some
just on day one of that person being here. of course, the pressures are going to be so intense on these individuals. what is really not all that big of a community around here. rev? i think that we must be concerned about the safety of the jury, as well as everyone that s going to be around that building. what about people even being involved in cases on other floors. but i i also think that we need to, as much as i m a critic of donald trump, we need to have mixed feelings about this. one, i i think that it is sad that we re about to see a former president of the united states go on trial for this. on the other hand, i think we should celebrate he is being held accountable, even though he was president. so there s no reason to rejoice around it. it is a reason to say everyone can be held accountable, but at the same time, i i think we need to look at the fact that people around the world are looking at us like we looked at other