Best in history. Asian american the best in history. Hispanic the best in history. Women, people with a diploma, people without a diploma. Donald trump yesterday making false claims about his economic record and the Unemployment Rate during his administration. Well have more from his rally In The South Bronx in just a moment. Also ahead well explain why ohios republican governor is calling a special legislative session to make sure President Biden is on the ballot this fall. And louisiana will soon become the first state to classify Abortion Pills as controlled dangerous substances. Well go through that legislation and its possible impact in novembers elections. Good morning and welcome to Way Too Early on this friday, may 24th. Im elise jordan in for jonathan lemire. Well start this morning with the race for the white house and Donald Trumps rally in New York City last night. After spending weeks in Lower Manhattan for his criminal hush money trial, trump traveled uptown to the bronx
At times as money grubbing, inconsistent, driven by personal hatred, even rolling out that shes crazy line of attack against her. At one point Attorney Susan Necheles said you have, quote, a lot of experience making phony stories about sex. To which daniels replied wow thats now how i would put it. The sex in the films is real just like what happened to me in that room. To try to prove that Stormy Daniels profited off her association with donald trump, trumps Defense Lawyers pointed out stormy sold merchandise to which Stormy Daniels fired back, quote, not unlike mr. Trump. Team trump also suggested that Stormy Daniels opposed trump politically and wanted to take him down. A line of questioning that comes with a lot of risks for the expresident s team. As nbc news reports the defense spent considerable time trying to prove that daniels had a political motive for wanting to out trumps story, trying to hurt his election bid. Wouldnt that bolster the prosecutions arguments trump had for w
Good morning. It is 11 00 a. M. Eastern, 8 00 a. M. Pacific. Im jose diazbalart. Right now, the jury is in recess and former President Trumps new york Hush Money Trial. It comes after testimony resumed earlier this morning when jurors did leave for recess, they were hearing from georgia longstreet, a paralegal who works on the manhattan district attorneys office. Her testimony coming after jurors heard more from a forensics data expert, with the manhattan district attorneys office, who inspected Text Messages, recordings, secret recordings and other data from phones owned by former trump attorney Michael Cohen. With us to talk about all of this, msnbc National Correspondent yasmin vossoughian, outside the courthouse in manhattan, danny cevallos, Criminal Defense Attorney and msnbc legal analyst, phyllis cote, senior judge and Clinical Professor of law and director of the externship and pro bono program. What has been happening inside the courtroom . This break is probably for a short p
Are watching, and i have been watching and hoping for the professionalism of the police force in their response. They didnt volunteer or ask to be there, we asked them to be there and what we have seen so far from what the camera can detect has been no police brutality, no overreaction by the police, and cooperation by the students who are being arrested. Well, let me say this, to take into account, nypd has been preparing for this. This is not new to that city, dealing with these situations, and part of the reason for the administration there at columbia , moving in in the way nypd did, they were well prepared. Theyve been preparing for this for some time. They have been relying on intelligence, im sure. They had a plan and we saw that. So far, it has been without incident. Those officers, i am quite sure, are only using the necessary force, but i think we are in a situation where we are hopefully seeing this come to an end, because it should have come to an end, this week, and it app
Coming up later this hour. Good day to all of you from msnbc headquarters. Welcome, everyone to alex witt reports. A fallout and a big week for donald trump. Naming five more defendants indicted in the scheme, a total of 16 have now been indicted on conspiracy, fraud, and forgery charges are related to the election certification. Trump himself, back in florida after intense hearings and testimony in the hush money trial. He set through the indignity of life as a defendant in Criminal Court while his friend, david pecker, using the catch and kill scheme and Karen Mcdaniel , a months long the january 6th case appears headed for further delay as Supreme Court justices way arguments on the claims of absolute immunity from prosecution. We have reporters and analysts and place covering every angle of the source. We will begin with nbcs dasha burns. Dasha . Reporter it was a while week wild week in court. He described the alleged catch and kill scheme with donald trump and Michael Cohen. This