Welcome to our new special, new york versus donald trump im ari melber here. We will break it down for you on the first ever criminal trial of former president and current candidateace well. Tough for the defendant. Gripping, dramatic testimony from the woman of the center of the hush money plot. Of all of the witnesses she is the most famous with her encounter with trump. There was testimony and key days of testimony from witnesses who were in trumps orbit that can speak about what she said and corroborate some of the financials for the jury. We have more on that as well. Prosecutors have been laying out the pieces of this scheme and we can tell you as we recount why it was such a tough week for trump we know, according to the public remarks here, we are working off of the public evidence, we know we are near the end of this thing. We have two witnesses. The star witness Michael Cohen, he will begin on monday. One other witness and they will be able to rest as soon as the coming week.
Addition of my show. Up next, the beat weekend. Welcome to our special. The new york versus donald trump. We are bringing you this brand new breakdown of the third week of the historic and first ever criminal trial of the former president and current candidate as well. This was a tough week for the defendant. There was gripping, dramatic testimony from the woman at the center of the hush money plot, and of all the witnesses we have seen, she is the most famous through her encounter with trump, and there were testimony and key days of testimony from witnesses who were in trumps orbit, who could speak about what she said and cooperate corroborate it. We are looking at this game and how they try to influence the 2016 election. We can tell you as we recount why it was such a tough week for trump, we also know, according to the public remarks, working off the public evidence, we nowhere near the end of the thing. Two witnesses left according to the das team. We have the star witness, Michae
Welcome to our new special. New york versus donald trump. Im ari melber here. We will bring you this brand new break down of the third week of the historic and first ever criminal trial of a former president and a current candidate as well. This was a tough week for the defendant that was gripping dramatic testimony from the woman at the center of the hush money plot of all the witnesses we have seen, she has become the most famous through her encounter with trump. And there was testimony and key days of testimony for witnesses who were in trumps orbit who could speak about what she said and corroborate some of the financials. For the jury, we have more on that as well. Prosecutors have been laying out the pieces of this scheme to influence the 2016 election and we can tell you as we recount why it was such a tough week for trump, we also know according to the public remarks here, we know we are near the end of this thing. We have two witnesses left. The star witness Michael Cohen will
More allegiance to the concept of free speech than many of us who are charged with okay on the front line of protecting free speech. it s really astonishing. jacqui: charlie, how much of the media melt down is rooted in the chance that donald trump gets his twitter account back if elon musk owns the platform? i think that is about 97% of it. the animating factor here, even that is representative of something larger. i ve always believed donald trump was actually representative of something larger. it was not just this sort of swatch buckling vulgarian who crashed the gates of washington. the real problem with donald trump, he was talking about things nobody in washington was talking about and things politicians in both parties had abandoned for decades, and so he
Once you re out of office, once you re not the president, you re an ordinary citizen, and for every president before trump, except perhaps richard nixon, they understood that. and so, at stake in this is not just the documents, the 800 pages or so that congress is trying to get. it s also a really simple and important constitutional principle. is president trump somehow better than the rest of us? does he now not have to tell the truth to congress and tell his minions not to tell the truth to congress? that is pretty much the opposite of the constitutional system we have. kurt, back in the day, you and graden carter at spy magazine, you thought donald trump was more than an ordinary citizen too. you named him the short-fingered vulgarian. now it seems he s a short-fingered vulgarian ex-president. how does this play to the ordinary american citizen to watch donald trump furiously scrambling over and over again to make sure that information that a lot of people would be interested in s