Tonight on the readout.

This is what took me off and takes me off to get main trail because I should be in Georgia now.

I should be in Florida now. I should be in Georgia now.

I should be in Florida now.

I should be in a lot of different places right now

campaigning and I'm sitting here

and this will go for a long time.

It's very unfair.

Very unfair.

Donald Trump goes on trial as opening statements and testimony begin in the Manhattan

courthouse.

We will break down what the jury of 12 Manhattanites heard and what Trump, the Republican Party, and the country face going forward.

Plus, chaos at Columbia, the battle for America's elite institutions boils over at one of New York's Ivy League universities with

charges of anti-Semitism and suppression of free speech flying back and forth and

the school calling the cops on their own students.

But we begin tonight with the historic first ever criminal trial of a former US

president which was almost not the first in fact the world seemed to stop on its

hinges on August 8 1974 as America's 37th President, Richard Nixon became the first U.S. President

to resign before the end of his term.

I have never been a quitter.

To leave office before my term is completed as abhorrent to every instinct in my body.

But as president I must put the interests of America first. Therefore

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