“Is there a question,” a weary Dr. Phil asked a lawyer for Trinity Broadcasting Network from the witness stand today in the battle over a $500 million distribution deal between the TV shrink and the Christian TV network.

“No question,” Dr. Phil said, answering his own question under his breath in a dispute that has become it own level of legal Hell.

Amidst gentle reprimands from the judge over how Yes or No questions work, bickering attorneys, a “trial mantra,” verbal salvos and short fuses, a frequently irritated Phil McGraw Tuesday testified in federal court in Texas on the potential Chapter 11 and various lawsuits surrounding his much hyped and now diminished Merit Street Media .

It did not go well, to put it mildly. Or, as Dr. Phil put it at one point, “if we are going to op

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