This is Michael Popok, legal AF. Well, the old theme song from sopranos is playing in

Joe Takapina's mind. I woke up this morning. Joe Takapina woke up this morning and he filed

a motion from mistrial during in the E. Jean Carroll case. He's not even done with the cross

examination of of E. Jean Carroll, but he's so getting his backside kicked by both E. Jean

Carroll and the judge that he did something extraordinary. He fights. It's not even mid case.

He's not even it's one third of the case through when he thinks he's got a grounds for mistrial,

which he doesn't. So let me start with the fresh news. The judge already denied the motion

for mistrial done. Move on, cross examine the witness. She's your witness, Mr. Takapina finished

with E. Jean Carroll. But let me tell you how we got there and why this shows complete weakness

and a self-awareness, I guess, that he doesn't completely understand by Joe Takapina's point

that he's conceding that they're losing. Let's start with this as a trial lawyer.

No perfect trial. There's no such thing as a perfect trial. You're not guaranteed by the U.S.

Constitution, a perfect trial. You're guaranteed a fair trial. And that's what the judge has been

giving him. He just doesn't like the Takapina homicide and Trump side. Just don't like that they're

on the losing end of ridiculous motions that have no support of the law at all. All we've learned

so far, so far in this point in the trial and in the motion that was just filed at 501 this morning

is that Joe Takapina doesn't have a command of the English language, of grammar, of syntax,

and of English literature. Because most of what he's arguing about, if you have to believe that

what you put in your motion first is most important to you, then what's most important to him

is that Joe Takapina can't ask a proper question in a federal courthouse and get an answer back

without having the other side properly object and the judge sustain the objection. That's not on

them. That's on you. Yes, this is an adversarial process. Everybody has a role. The judge is the

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