Over the past week, Donald Trump has been forced to sit inside a frigid New York courtroom and listen to a parade of potential jurors in his criminal hush money trial share their unvarnished assessments of him. Now a criminal defendant, Trump will instead spend the next several weeks subjected to strict rules that strip him of control over everything from what he is permitted to say to the temperature of the room. While Trump is occasionally confronted by protesters, generally he lives a life sheltered from criticism.
A costumed skier races down a slope, hits a pond and hydroplanes halfway across. Among the resorts holding pond skimming events this weekend are Snowbasin in Utah and Winter Park in Colorado. The idea is that skiers and snowboarders try to gain enough downhill momentum to skim clear across a pond.
Jennifer Rubin and Michael Beschloss join MSNBC’s Jonathan Capehart to assess Donald Trump’s behavior during the first week of his criminal trial and how Trump’s attempt to campaign from inside the courtroom, where he has to abide by the rules as a criminal defendant, is failing when contrasted with Biden talking to voters about issues on the campaign trail.