notes and understand what is going on and i do think this judge is really running a tight ship so i think the actual trial itself is not going to be having the kind of fireworks that maybe we would expect given kind aware, what has led up to now. what you thing that does to someone like trump who can t stand not producing his own show? he is going to find a way. you already sought with the trip to the bodega that he made the other day, his team is already sitting down and thinking about what can we do while we are in the area? what can we do while we are in the courtroom, illegal tense point, his legal team is already trying to stick as much paper again well as humanly possible, even if it buys him another hour of freedom they want that our pick they think that our is going to benefit them in the campaign in the eyes of his supporters, they will try everything. so it could be a look trump gives to a person, an errant
interchange the motions and good faith at some point you have to accept this courts rulings, or having opening statements monday. and at some point in that, donald trump started to stand up and said sir, we are not finished, sit down and donald trump was incredibly humbled by that but also peeved when he walked out hugely scans the press in attendance at every hearing i have been through with him and this was my fourth trump trial in the last year but he looked dead straight ahead, his lips pursed and that characteristic trump way and was shaking his head as he was walking out, just so angry that he has finally met a wall that he can t tear down and judge one mershon has been very harsh with the defense but not necessarily in a harsh tone of voice pick is making clear that this is his courtroom, we are going to have opening
the capital on jan. 6 of what are you aware of forcibly moving any of the trump supporters turned insurrectionist on that day? now, i am not aware. i was focused on protecting my colleagues in the house gallery point i was a part of a group of about seven several dozen members who are trapped in the house gallery that day, working on figuring out how to barricade the doors to prevent access to the gallery and eventually how to find an escape route. it was obviously a very difficult situation and luckily, thanks to the courage of the u.s. capitol police, we were able to find a way to safety. and i guess my point is, this is it someone who believes in treating all protesters the same, i mean, the op-ed for which there was much attention around was about using the insurrection act on, in the context of the protest that erupted after the murder of george floyd.
corruptly and nefariously. it is undermining that trust that is perhaps one of the greatest long-term threats to the viability stability and future success of this country because a democracy depends certainly on the trust in our systems, our systems were never perfect but always the process of improving them. when you get like people like trump and his allies, that so such doubt in the system, none of it can be trusted, that is when the whole thing begins to collapse. cleanout a panel of 12 jurors and six alternate jurors, assembled in a panel with a purpose and mission, determining trump s terminal fate, we are left to wonder with the tidal wave crashing around us what will happen next. is the question we will get to in this hour with some of our most favorite experts and friends. winston university professor of sociology and international affairs, back with us point also joining us from u.s. attorney and msnbc legal analyst barbara mcquaid is here
pick that, too, comes straight out of an autocrats hand book. the offices remain in the occupants passed through them and they pass through them on the basis of free and fair elections so that people can through the mouth when they want to pick the thing about autocracy is at the office comes to be identified with the person so the person claims to own the office claims to be above the constitution claims to be the final word in the system so that everyone pledges loyalty to the autocrat and not to the constitutional framework. so we are seeing that process, really quite advanced in the way that trump talks about all of the institutions. the military, of course, the pushback on that point the judiciary is now trying to push back on that. but again, the concern here is that it begins to look like everybody is on one political team or another and i think it is quite crucial that due process, the facts, and the law