Hi, everyone. Happy friday. Were monitoring the ongoing criminal trial of donald trump. Were on day iegt eight of of this election Interference Hush Money Trial. Today brought the introduction of websites number two and three for the prosecution. Right this moment, the prosecution is questioning gary farro. He was Michael Cohens banker at First Republic bank. He set up the Home Equity Line Of Credit through which Michael Cohen paid stormy and was reimbursed by donald trump. Its the financial transaction thats at the heart of all of this. The second witness was a woman by the name of rona graph. You may not know the name, but she was in the room for jirs about everything. Shes Donald Trumps longtime assistant. She worked at the Trump Organization for 34 years. She also noted that she was on the stand because she had been subpoenaed and that the Trump Organization is paying for her attorneys. In a very brief line of questioning from the prosecution, alvin braggs team had her authenticate
second wave. that was confirmed in the indictment. this blows up all the minimiing of the day that we heard from not just oath keepers and media personalities but members of congress who say a day in january, one day in january. so i guess the question, ben, as you read this chilling indictment why didn t these next steps happen? they breached the capitol, where were the people with guns, thank god they did not come and make it in. what stopped them? probably the national guard which i don t think they expected to be activated. but it took as you remember took hours for the president to say yes to this. it s still one of the remaining mysteries as to why it took so long. i don t think it s anticipated that they would be activated. they thought they would hold the capitol. there were a lot of people there. i don t think they anticipated all the qanon people would
masterful interview in getting navarro to admit the details that he was essentially plotting a soft coup but because he wrote a book about it. you can t claim something is privileged and secret and then write a book and blab about it with you on national tv. part of me wonders whether his book agent convinced him to bait this contempt proceeding so someone would buy a copy of the book. that s a fair question. we may never know it. i mentioned that he agreed to come on with us the day after the house vote and then pulled out of the that interview. if he does return to interviews, we can talk to him again. those are open questions. the way the trump january 6th message change from ducking and minimiing to embracing the violence and embracing the idea they can end democracy in america is striking to behold because it has profound implications as we go forward to