Judge threatens Trump with jail time amid gag order violations in NY criminal trial

The 11th Hour with Stephanie Ruhle

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🗓️ 7 May 2024

⏱️ 42 minutes

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As Donald Trump heads back into the courtroom for his New York criminal trial, Judge Merchan threatens him with jail time amid the continued gag order violations. Plus, a ceasefire deal is still out of reach with Hamas and Israel, as Israel moves toward an invasion of Rafah. And we hear from a veteran journalist on the challenges newsrooms are facing covering such an unprecedented news cycle. Charles Coleman, Hugo Lowell, McKay Coppins, Yaakov Katz, Jeremy Bash, Sam Stein, Michael Steele, and Ben Smith join.

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0:00.0	Tonight defendant Trump is held in contempt again, his latest penalty and the new
0:06.6	threat of jail time from the judge. And with no agreement on a ceasefire, Israel
0:12.3	resumed strikes in southern Gaza so is a deal
0:14.9	still possible and a top Georgia Republican says he's voting for Joe Biden but
0:20.0	that could mean in a crucial swing state
0:22.5	as the 11th hour gets underway on this Monday night. Good evening once again. I'm Stephanie Rule. We are now 183 days away from the
0:37.9	election and today in a New York City courtroom Judge Juan Rashan got tough with Donald Trump about the gag order in
0:44.9	his election interference trial.
0:46.8	The judge fined Trump another thousand bucks and threatened him that he would throw him
0:51.0	in jail if there are more violations.
0:53.4	The day continued with testimony from two former Trump employees
0:57.1	about how the money specifically flowed from Donald Trump
1:01.1	to his former fixer Michael Cohen.
1:03.1	Here's my colleague Vaughn Hillier with more.
1:06.6	Tonight former President Trump facing a new threat of jail time
1:10.4	at his hush money trial after his tenth violation of the judge's gag order.
1:15.0	He's taken away my constitutional right to speak.
1:18.0	The judge directly addressing the possibility of putting Mr. Trump behind bars over future violations.
1:24.7	The magnitude of such a decision is not lost on me.
1:27.8	You are the former president of the United States, impossibly the next president as well,
1:32.4	adding,
1:33.0	as much as I do not want to impose a jail sanction,
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