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don t know if you will heed that advice. he s still lashing out at the fbi, and any legal file demanding the already seized material. more on that ahead, also this hour, after a string of bold actions and policy victories the president unleashed going on the defensive. trump and the extreme maga republicans have made their choice to go backwards, full of anger, violence, hate, and division. but maga republicans don t just threaten our personal rights and economic security, there are a threat to our very democracy. the question is, is that a sign of what is to come in the midterm election, just a couple of months and from now. i ll be talking to robert gibbs. also to those coming up this hour the parents of those killed at the uvalde shooting. they take the message to the texas governor. just days after the police chief finally lost his job. plus teenagers on the front line fighting for abortion rights, fed up with weather school has not been telling them. they ve started
Good day, everyone. Im Andrea Mitchell in new york along with my colleague and friend, Chris Jansing, as history is being made in that Lower Manhattan courtroom. Donald trump is the first former president of the United States to stand as a defendant in a criminal trial. At any moment, could be facing the first witness to testify against him. Thats expected to be former National Enquirer publisher, david pecker. Hes likely to be pressed about alleged efforts to bury damaging stories about donald trump during the 2016 election. Earlier this morning, prosecutors gave their open statement, accusing mr. Trump of a criminal conspiracy to hide embarrassing relationships by preventing them from getting into the press, thus influencing the outcome of the 2016 election then covering it all up. The defense followed saying that mr. Trump did not commit any crimes, describing him as not just the republican nominee, but as the frugal business man, also a husband and a father. Defense lawyer todd bla
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A crucial case. So i saw some of the tweets and the color from the courtroom of alvin sitting there with his Accordion File on his lap. That certainly tracks with the meticulous approach hes taken to every case ive seen him work on, being committed to putting his head down, doing the work, drowning out the noise. Certainly theres a huge amount of noise being thrown at him, whether its from the former president or from a number of others who are using smears and attacks, including, frankly, racist, big getted, antisemitic attacks. Using tropes like George Soros to distract from the facts of this case and try to drown out the actual details and accountability that trump is facing. Catherine, it really has to take a very strong person to withstand all of that and lead this prosecution team. So far from what youve seen from both sides, from the opening statements, from what we are reading at least, youve got some very strong lawyering on