“THE SYSTEM IS ON TRIAL”
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>> And it's time for the hot topic of the hour while making a campaign stop at a Harlem Bodega yesterday. Former President Trump said his so-called hush money case is having the, quote, reverse effect. Watch. >> This is all politics, this is coming out of the White House and it makes me campaign locally and that's okay. I think we're doing better, Brian. We're doing better now than we've ever done. So I think it's having a reversal. You know what? All I want is fairness. >> Trump breaking in more than a million dollars in campaign fundraising after the first day of the criminal trial, the trial resuming tomorrow or the proceedings of the trial resuming tomorrow. They're still in jury selection, seven of the 18 jurors have been selected now. Manhattan district attorney Alvin Bragg filing a motion, meanwhile, to hold Trump in contempt of court. Claiming that Trump violated his gag order after posting about witnesses in the trial on social media. Bragg urging Judge Murchand to warn Trump future violations of the gag order can be punishable with up to 30 days of jail time. Ashley, good morning. Your reaction. >> Good morning, yeah. I've always thought from the beginning that all of these cases are really helping Trump and obviously if he really did raise the million dollars, which I believe him, it's continuing to help him. And 60% of Americans do not believe in our judicial system and one in three don't even understand why he is in trial state. I mean, I do this for a living, politics for a living, and I can't keep all the trial states. So I think this is straight. I think this is 100% helping him. >> You know, I think when you look at this gag order, it's really hard to see a candidate for president following a gag order. I mean, you've got President Joe Biden traveling across the country, he was in the swing state of Pennsylvania yesterday, talking about everything he wants to talk about, abortion, Trump, whatever he wants to talk about. And if Trump says anything, he's violating a gag order. They're running for president. ESPN's Stephen A. Smith slammed Trump's so called money hush money trial yesterday on his YouTube show. Here's what he said, watch. >> To my liberal friends out there, all you're doing is showing that you're scared you can't beat him on the issues and the merits. That's why he keeps saying, it's a political campaign against me, tens of millions of people see what extent the other side is willing to go through just to keep him out of office because they can't beat him on their own merits. Everything you do shows me you can't beat him. It's a damn shame. >> And that's what Trump keeps saying, a new AP NORC Center for Public Affairs Research poll finds that just 35% of adults think that Trump actually did something illegal in this case. 31% of Americans believe Trump's actions were unethical, but not illegal. Another 14% said Trump did nothing wrong. Lee Carter, your reaction. >> So I think this whole thing is really fascinating as we're looking at, I agree with you completely this benefits Donald Trump because what's on trial right now is not just Donald Trump, the system is what's on trial. People believe the system is rigged to favor a few, not the many. When people hear things like Katie Couric talking about how Republicans must be brain dead if they're gonna support Donald Trump. When you see the way people are reacting here, you think this just is unfair. You think that this isn't about Donald Trump, you think about this as something much greater. The fact that there's so much pile on here makes people actually fight back even more. When you look at the polling, what people want is they want somebody who's gonna stand up for the issues. Two-thirds of Americans are looking for a fighter who's gonna fight back on this system. That's exactly what Donald Trump is doing from the courthouses that he's fighting in and people are, it's resonating and everyone on the left is really surprised that this is happening. If you're a Trump supporter, you see it and you're like, obviously, this is going to create more and more support for Donald Trump. >> Yeah, how do you see that? >> Well, Maria, trying to have a dispassionate conversation about the Trump trial with the Democrat is like trying to have a logical conversation with an alcoholic. It's not possible. They just can't get past the emotion. They can't get to the central issues. It's just amazing to me that we're even having the conversation. It's amazing this even came to trial and that doesn't just come from me. Think of all the legal experts you've had on your show, Maria, who've said there's just no basis for what's happening here. And yet if he gets convicted, they're talking about jail time, multiple jail time. It's just multiple years. >> I will backfire. >> And it's going to continue to divide the country. I mean, I don't know how the country moves forward after trials like this.
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