America Deserves to Watch Trump's Trial on TV
The Hartmann Report
Thom Hartmann
4.4 • 1.2K Ratings
🗓️ 25 June 2023
⏱️ 59 minutes
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Summary
Trump's Trial is more important and historic than already-televised state court drama. Congress should act to let us watch the most important trial of the century live and in real time. Plus - why is FBI agent Kendra Kingsbury going to jail for the same crime Trump is likely to get away with?
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| 0:42.6 | This is the Tom Hartman program. |
| 0:47.1 | America deserves to watch Trump's trial on TV live and in real time. |
| 0:51.6 | That's the headline over HartmanReport.com. |
| 0:54.1 | Here's the deal. |
| 0:55.5 | Up until about 30 years ago, there were basically no live television or even film cameras in most |
| 1:01.7 | courtrooms in the United States. |
| 1:03.1 | About 30 years ago, a number of states started experimenting with putting cameras in the courtroom. |
| 1:08.3 | The fear, the argument against them was that lawyers and defendants and witnesses and whatnot |
| 1:14.7 | would play to the camera, that they would grandstand, that they would change their behavior in a way |
| 1:20.1 | that would be, you know, that would turn, you know, otherwise legal proceedings into basically theater. |
| 1:26.4 | And it hasn't happened. |
| 1:28.6 | About two-thirds of the states in the United States now allow |
| 1:32.8 | state court judges at their discretion to allow television cameras either live or for |
| 1:39.4 | recording purposes in the courtroom. |
| 1:42.4 | Some do it routinely, some do it with exceptions. |
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