Im not sure that anybody has ever seen anything like this before. Day two of testimony in trumps hush money election interference trial. And the judge has already had it with trump and his legal team. Meanwhile, i was in the courtroom as the first witness, david pecker, gave riveting testimony about his interactions with trump. I will tell you what i saw and heard. And that is where we begin tonight. With the historic first ever trial of a former american president , as donald trump spent a second day in court before a attan jury. It was a day that i can say i witnessed personally as i took my turn to be at the courthouse, and has been the case so far, there were no throngs of Trump Supporters outside raising hell on his behalf. We notice this one guy who had a crucifix and rang a loud bell while wearing a tshirt declaring the three greatest u. S. President s were george washington, john f. Kennedy, and donald trump. Other than that, for all the giant barricades erected downtown, the l
Manafort faces. The judge told them to get back to work though. So could it mean we are any closer to a verdict. But we start with some Breaking News. An nbc news exclusive. Former trump personal Attorney Michael Cohen is discussing a plea deal with federal prosecutors. One that could come as early as this afternoon. Thats according to sources familiar with the matter who spoke with nbc news. Tom winter is the nbc news investigations reporter who helped break the story. Our guest is a former u. S. District attorney for the Southern District of new york which is conducting the cohen investigation. Let me begin with you, tom, lay this out. What else did the sources say . How close the possibility of seeing some kind of deal emerge today . Sure. So ayman, as ellie can probably well tell you, no prosecutor counts their chickens and counts a plea deal until they have it. Then insigned. And the person is in court. I think were still a little a ways away from that, based upon
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he just says at any given moment what he wishes the reality was. i make kim yeah? ted copal wrote a beautifully written article saying watch out whether the voters kick him out or the mueller report leesds him to be impeached and either way he s going to be out there. trump s at 31. that s 1/3 of the country is strongly behind him. you suggested he may not leave? yes. i ve always said that. he s going to go when he wants to go. i don t think he was saying in the last election that it s rigged, except that he won and it wasn t rigged. but if he loses, he s already planted the seed with his people that they re all against him. if you can t trust the fbi and the justice department and the rule of law and the judges, then obviously an election can be faked. so if everything is fake news and everything is rigged, when he loses the election, they re
let me finish tonight with a question about the future. in countries less committed to democracy, you can count on them streaming the loser screaming it was rigged. this is the mentality donald trump has brought to american politics, a language that denies objective. ted coppell wrote a op-ed on what president trump might do. even in it defeat could remain powerful and he has a point. a new poll at trump 41%. up a bit since the government shutdown began. 33% are strongly approving of
politicians two days before the inauguration? he hosted a breakfast with michael flun and they invited a host of foreign dig nuitaries as well as hethy donors. he did the midnight ride and he ghut white house. this happened before trump was in power and the reason mueller has asked flynn himself is because one of the questions is did foreign money move through intermediaries through the president s inaugural committee? that s one of the questions he s trying to answer by looking at this breakfast. so nunes could be a witness? i don t want to speculate but he is on the special counsel s radar. it s a stunning thing to their president of the united states defend himself saying i m not an agent of the russians. they re not soviet union but