Hi everyone it's 4 o'clock in New York and it is raining news. We start

with Trump on the stand. It was short on substance, short on decorum, and very, very

short on puth, yet overflowing with theatrics and deflection and grievance.

Donald Trump's eruptive testimony today

in the 250 million dollar civil fraud lawsuit in New York,

though historic, not familiar in some ways,

except for one key difference, the arena.

It was not a Fox News sit-down or meandering political speech,

but Donald Trump sat down today in a courtroom, and in court rooms facts and the rule of law

still matter in fact they reign supreme and in that domain today Trump was

repeatedly admonished by the very man who will determine the fate of his

business empire and brand and the future of the size of his family's wealth.

That man is Judge Angoran. Time and time again the judge has used his authority as a judge to interrupt Donald

Trump's everyone's out to get me this is politically motivated stick a ploy to

run out the clock on testimony that was limited to a single day.

That was today.

This our NBC news team inside the courtroom noted, quote,

the question was and let me ask again,

became familiar refrains as Trump sought to avoid providing actual

answers. What he did do was try to crank up the chaos. He lashed out at the

Attorney General and Judge in Goron, who raised his voice on more

than one occasion and beseech Trump's lawyers to control their client. In the

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