happy monday, nicole. thanks much. stomach welcome to the bee, everyone. i hope you had a great weekend and i hope you have a little bit of energy because we have a lot of news including legal news going both directions tonight. i m going to give you our breakdown right now. defendant donald trump has gotten some good news from a legal perspective for him and some bad news and it s all happening today as he has so many cases and challenges going that sometimes it rains legal news. let s start with these two new york cases. trump was back in court in new york for hearing in the big hush money case. this is the bad news trump got today even if the court sketch artist caught him smiling or smirking or making whatever face you call that according to the sketch. no cameras, of course, allow to newer courtrooms. this is a criminal charges that the d.a., alvin bragg brought into new york dating back to what the d.a. argues is a kind of democracy election crime. when you stack it t
someone to speak for me. and i relish the day that i get to face him and speak my truth. the first trump criminal case to go to trial might not be about classified documents or january 6th, but in the end it might be this woman, stephanie clifford, stage name stormy daniels who brings down donald trump. also tonight, have i some thoughts about ronna mcdaniel and the normalization of the dangerous damned lies from the republican party. plus, not one, but two big announcements involving my friend and colleague, the rachel maddow. stay tuned for that. but we begin tonight with a date now set for the first criminal prosecution of a former american president. of course, i m speaking of donald trump, and that date is april 15th. mark your calendars. no, it is not one of the two trials for trying to overturn the 2020 election or the one for grossly mishandling classified documents when he left the white house. this one is for falsifying business records to hide the hush mone