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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 ....
Was a witchhunt and it is unfair and a sham, these are donald trump s friends and allies and employees who testified. they were not even claimed to be lying by donald trump and he had a choice to testify and to call witnesses in addition to bob costello and he chose not to. so it is one thing for donald trump to say something as absurd as that. it is something else when donald trump sully defense lawyer, todd blanche, goes on cnn and we will show you what he said. he had a tough time in the courtroom. he is having an even worse time on television. todd blanche, by the way, has a permanent invitation to come on this program whenever he can to answer questions about this and the other trump cases. let s listen to what todd blanche said on cnn. why didn t the defense call any of these witnesses? well, because we happen to live in america and we don t ....
Group. bill: another threat to democracy. only his threat to democracy. bill: when nancy pelosi goes on cnn and says you have got to figure nancy pelosi believes that right? no. bill: flat out down to it. she knows differently because president obama not only treats republicans with disrespect, he treats democrats. he does not do the kind of things that a president normally does to engender support within his own party. bill: this is a very important point i want to make. so nancy pelosi goes on cnn and she sits there. and she says something that you, karl rove believe she doesn t believe. i agree. bill: so that she is putting forth something that s not true. ....
Group. bill: another threat to democracy. only his threat to democracy. bill: when nancy pelosi goes on cnn and says you have got to figure nancy pelosi believes that right? no. bill: flat out down to it. she knows differently because president obama not only treats republicans with disrespect, he treats democrats. he does not do the kind of things that a president normally does to engender support within his own party. bill: this is a very important point i want to make. so nancy pelosi goes on cnn and she sits there. and she says something that you, karl rove believe she doesn t believe. i agree. bill: so that she is putting forth something that s not true. now. ....
Group. bill: another threat to democracy. only democracy. bill: when nancy pelosi goes on cnn and says you have got to figure nancy pelosi believes that right? no. bill: flat out down to it. she knows differently because president obama not only treats republicans with disrespect, he treats democrats. he does not do the kind of things that a president normally does to engender support within his own party. bill: this is a very important point i want to make. so nancy pelosi goes on cnn and she sits there. and she says something that you, karl rove believe she doesn t believe. i agree. bill: so that she is putting forth something that s not true. now. ....