Joining us, msnbcs Yasmin Vossoughian outside the courthouse. Temidayo agangawilliams, a former prosecuor and Defense Attorney caroline pull lisi. Yasmin, Jury Instrekss under way right now. Whats going on . Jury instructions under way ahead of Opening Statements, jose and ana. 45 minutes for the prosecution, 25 minutes for the defense. Theyre doing that because theres going to be a lot of details, much of a timeline, a lot of dates and they dont want to overwhelm the jury in the Opening Statements process. Judgments made from the bench that i want to talk about with you quickly, first, when it comes to the evidence if, in fact, the former president decides to testify, judge juan merchan is allowing six various cases to be decided if donald trump it was. Talking about the trump payroll judgment, the trump civil fraud gag orders as well along with e. Jean carol assault case and the defamation case. A couple more things happening in court this morning. The former president spoke about ho
Plan and calling for more more Border Security and more money for veterans but doesnt do a lot about the ballooning deficit. What happened to republicans cutting on spending . Where is that . Well ask Republican Congressman francis rooney. We have Connell Mcshane on the latest on the 1 1 2 trillion dollar infrastructure plan. Reporter the idea is to provide incentives to state and local governments to pick up the rest of the spending, one trillion dollars plus, a new bridges and tunnels, airports and all these Infrastructure Projects. That is why the president invited a number of state, local governors and officials at white house. In that meeting held earlier today he pretty much put it straight to them. Listen. Lets see how badly you want it. [laughter]. If you want it badly, youre going to get it f you dont want it, that is okay with me too. But we have to rebuild our infrastructure. Reporter talking about incentives there, how badly do you want it . We have reaction from democrats.
Good evening. With pen to paper, President Trump sent a strong signal to americas trading partners there will be a new playing field. Making good on his promise to withdraw from the Transpacific Partnership agreement while putting u. S. Businesses on notice that there will be a price to pay for moving jobs offshore. On the First Business day of his presidency, mr. Trump moved quickly to begin dismantling obamaera policies, refocusing on the job ahead after seizing on a headshaking distraction over the weekend. Our White House Correspondent Hallie Jackson starts us off tonight. Reporter at the white house, a reset already after a rocky start. On his first full white house work day, President Trump, most notably backing out of the Transpacific Partnership, a major deal that would have made it easier to trade with allies around the pacific to counter china. Weve been talking about this for a long time. Reporter the move winning praise from people like senator bernie sanders, and from mark
Tom brady and the patriots crush the steelers for a return trip to the super bowl. Brady into the end zone. Their opponent the Atlanta Falcons. After a dom naying performance of their own against the packers, the hype for the big game already well under way. Flash back mondays, elton john asked fans to create videos of the song. This is january 23rd, 2017. Announcer from nbc news, this is today with matt lauer and savannah guthrie, live from studio 1a in rockefeller everybody back in town. Natalie is. I got hugs all around. Are you ready to go back to the 70s . Im so ready. If were playing benny and the yes, sir youve got me. Were going to have your forecast coming up. It is our top story. Dangerous storms, tornadoes cutting a deadly path across the south as a new Severe Weather threat emerges. Well get als forecast, but first gabe ghoulier is in hargity, georgia. Reporter this trailer upended. The death toll is now 14, 18 dead throughout the south. You can see the sheer communities ha
Advisory. We have already seen several trees come down on the ground. Take a look at some of this video here. This is the scene on seven locks road near bethesda, around 6 00 this morning. Traffic was stopped in both directions. This as crews worked to remove a tree from the power line. We know that everything is back open now. But we do want to check back in with storm team 4 meteorologist, sheena parveen, who has more on how long this weather is going to last. Hi, sheena. Its a very nasty way to start the week. Winds are gusting near 40 miles an hour, on top of the rain moving in, berwyn, bethesda seeing more moderate rain showers. But off to the west, thats where we see heavier rain from leesburg down through gainesville and areas to the west, especially near the Shenandoah Valley and Higher Elevations. Some of this rain is falling at about an inch and a half per hour, especially down near culpepper. Thats some heavy rain. Look at the alerts that we have. Well start with the green,