Of one of the series of fact witnesses that took the stand before the judge dismissed the jury for the day early just a short time ago. Trumps onetime white house aide Madeleine Westerhout earlier testified about trumps reaction to the allegations callings entire situation, quote, very unpleasant. All this is setting the stage for a huge week starting monday with the last batch of witnesses for the prosecution. We now know according to multiple sources that Michael Cohen will be one of them, the man who once said hed take a bullet for donald trump with the critical task of tying all the pieces together before the defense gets its shot and answers the question could trump himself take the stand . Well dig into that coming up. I want to bring in nbcs Vaughn Hillyard outside the courthouse. Phil rucker, msnbc political analyst and coauthor of multiple books on donald trump, Chuck Rosenberg is a former u. S. Attorney, senior fbi official and msnbc contributor, and with me here in studio, j
You can just tell him to stop doing something and he ll stop doing something. it almost encourages him to do it more when someone has told him to stop doing something like that. they know and this does not help them. judge, isn t the defendant allowed to say the judge is unfair or the prosecutor is deranged? right. yes. he has the right to free speech. he can say what he wants. but the judge has warned him specifically not to do that, not to taint the jury pool. and there s a real risk here that what he says could have that impact. i agree with kaitlan. i did a quick count. he s attacked at least ten different judges over the years by name. that s his m.o. that s the way he operates. he attacks the judges and calls them biased and unfair and therefore he can t get a fair trial. it s all a witch hunt. so, this is what he s done over and over again. and judge, we learned tonight that donald trump is seeking to have a lawsuit brought by the estate of capitol police officer