also joining us is legal analyst barbara mcquaid. at the table, former chief of staff myles taylor. but we start with my friend and colleague legal correspondent lisa rubin she's just come out of the courtroom for us. widen the lens. take me through where we are at this hour. we reported on the tragic events outside. we reported on a little bit of the back and forth between trump's legal team and the prosecutors about the evidence should trump take the stand, but i really want to understand what happened in the final minutes where the judge seemed to lose his patience with trump's lawyers wanting to relitigate every individual motion. take us inside that. >> reporter: that's right. the courtroom that we're in on the 15th floor here is one of the more dreary places i have ever been in a courthouse. it is wood panelled, but it has no art whatsoever. there are more cords than there are anything else. they are stapled to the wall. and the one thing it says in this courtroom clearly is in god we trust. yet, that very pedestrian dreary courtroom is where something extraordinary happened t