Tonight on the readout.

I'd love to talk to you people. I'd love to say everything that saw my mind, but I'm

restricted because they have a gag order and I'm not sure that they didn't just

have seen anything like this before.

Day two of testimony in Trump's hush money election interference trial and the judge has already had it with

Trump and his legal team. Meanwhile I was in the courtroom as the first witness

David Pecker gave riveting testimony about his interactions with Trump.

I will tell you what I saw and heard.

And that is where we begin tonight with the historic first ever trial of a

former American president as Donald Trump spent a second day in court before a

Manhattan jury. It was a day that I can say I witnessed personally

as I took my turn to be at the courthouse.

And has been the case so far,

there were no throngs of Trump supporters

outside raising hell on his behalf. I'll notice this one guy who had a

crucifix and rang a loud bell while wearing a t-shirt declaring that the three

greatest US presidents were George Washington, John F. Kennedy, and Donald Trump.

Other than that, for all the giant barricades erected downtown, the largest numbers present were police officers and reporters.

Plus a couple of adorable middle schoolers who came down to see the events from inside court.

Inside the courthouse, I started out as Team Overflow Room and then through the endless grace of

Lisa Rubin moved to the main courtroom for the second half of the day. And while I

have written a book about Donald Trump called The Man Who Sold America,

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