guys, we re going to win this thing. i promise you we re going to win it because we haven t done anything wrong. oh, eric. you re not paying attention. you have already lost, remember? in september, when the judge ruled that you and your brother and your daddy lied for years on your company s financial statements. this trial, it s really just about penalties. also tonight, president biden visits grieving families in lewiston, maine, as we learn more about missed warning signs before the gunman killed 18 people. i m jason johnson in for joy reid. we begin tonight with another volatile day in the $250 million civil fraud trial against the trump crime family and their company. today, a new york judge ruled that a limited gag order on donald trump should also apply to his attorneys after he said they made inappropriate remarks about his principal law clerk. judge arthur engoron s order said the lawyers for the former president and his adult sons are, quote, prohibited from
but i think her whole interview i m told is even more f fascinating than that. the leakers a lot of times are donald trump s advisers. some are his advisers, actually. and they know that donald trump reads the paper. he watches cable news. that s in a way the way you get his attention. to look to the press. some of those people aren t in the white house. they re in the fbi or the doj. this is a strategy they re reporting to try to get the president to behave differently. this of these people are defending institutions that they believe have held this government together through thick and thin through very dangerous times. and that really they believe need to be preserved for the future. help me with the tea reading of the search for the new fbi director. susan collins said it shouldn t be her colleagues.
see his cabinet and see that coming together, i think it s been a positive sign in that direction for conservatives and republicans. now we ll see what he does when he s in office. there s been a lot of tea reading in between that time. i think again it s been positive so far. and we ll see what he does when he s in office. projecting strength abroad, fixing our foreign policy that s been a disaster over the last eight years, capped off by this israel vote, i don t think it could be more damaging than that vote yesterday which is why there s bipartisan condemnation of it. and rick, what s your take on this? well, look, i ve been a skeptic, i remain a skeptic. i agree with sarah that the transition has been really remarkably, going remarkably well in my opinion because of the people that he s choosing. when you look at president putin s letter to incoming president-elect trump which is full of flattery and condemns the democrats and hillary clinton, seemingly to play into donald t
fun this week going back and forth with you. good to see you. two more supreme court experts joining me now. thomas goldstein, attorney and co-founder of what has become must-read for a lot of us. and kevin russell, the editor of the blog. i want to pick up on this point of whether they were ready. i think he was ready. he may have not given the concise snappy answers that some of the adversaries were able to give. but ultimately, his difficulty is that they don t have great answers to some of the questions that are troubling some of the justices. it is a matter of substance rather than regulation. too much tea reading? it was a bad day for the government. when the five justices are looking for one vote and they re all giving you a hard time except for the one, you know you re behind the eight ball and you re struggling.