Welcome to the beat. I am Ari Melber and this is day 10 of Donald Trump's criminal trial, the witnesses, the receipts.

Today prosecutors began by actually arguing that the defendant should be held in contempt again for new fresh gag order violations even after he lost the last

gag order clash on Tuesday. Prosecution looking at statements that Trump

put out about witnesses as well as attacking the jury itself.

Prosecutors say Trump's violations are corrosive to the fair trial that he deserves

and that the system requires. They also accuse him of creating an air of menace

that could affect these jurors,

also denouncing persistent and escalating rhetoric.

Now the judge found that Trump lost his previous defense about this ruling that he did

violate the gag order finding him about $9,000 and that was just this week.

Now Trump has clearly broken the rules.

I say that again not as a criticism but based on what we have observed in the trial

what the judge has ruled.

Here he was just last night.

I don't think there's ever been a more

conflicted judge, crooked and conflicted. I'm

unconstitutionally gagged. He gagged me. So I'm not even supposed to be I would say talking to you because he gagged me.

Trump, they're trying to play up the gagging, while of course, the very speaking he's doing

about the trial would suggest he doesn't seem all that gagged.

That's the reality component.

Then there's the legal component. The judge today told

Trump's lawyer nobody forced your client to speak to which the Trump defense

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