don jr. and eric trump boast testified in the civil fraud case with the future of their family business at stake. today was eric trump s second day on the stand, and nbc reporters note that eric trump seemed more nervous today than in yesterday s testimony. they report that he was often leaning back and forth in his chair and fidgeting, and they also described him as agitated and defiant. the civil prosecutor spent part of today asking eric trump about allen weisselberg s severance package. weisselberg served three months at rikers island for tax fraud and was removed from cfo of the trump organization. when he left he was given a $2 million severance package with strings attached, including a provision specifying that weisselberg could not communicate with, provide information to, or otherwise cooperate in any way with any other person or entity. and weisselberg has been true to his word. he has never cooperated with manhattan prosecutors in donald trump s stormy daniels hus
it s another step in new york attorney general leticia james. it includes donald trump and his family, and don junior his oldest son. he came to the courthouse today flanked by police officers as we showed you there first time this has happened. he took no questions outside, but he was on the stand where he took many questions because he had to. experts weighing in that some soft testimony did yield material that attorney general wants to use, including who was responsible for a long-running multiyear fraud. they cot got him talking. at one point a judge asked don junior to slow down his speed. that could happen to anybody. and don junior quipped, i apologize, your honor, i moved to florida but kept the new york pace. if you ve ever been near new york or seen a movie about new york, we do talk a little faster. that s fair enough. fast or slow, the answers that will matter here today in the coming days are about truth, lies and numbers. but in this case, legally that boils dow
that is why it is confusing. nobody laughed here and you didn t laugh. i hope you have a great time trick-or-treating. i want to welcome everybody. it is halloween. the top story begins with mike johnson s first full week as speaker of the house. after the offense of swift, many are still learning about him, let alone the rest of the nation that had never heard of him. the point became a funny punchline this weekend on saturday night live. your name is what? mike johnson. no one will forget that. how did you end up speake no one knows. there e clues. reports diving into who and how he might lead. why a party that was so paralyzed infighting settled on this particular man. part of the answer stems from weakness. the top elected republicans and visible figures were too divisive to went over the caucus. that is unusual. it down to mccarthy and scalise and brands like jim jordan. part of the answer turns on the wolf of wall street problem. that is the challenge of adv
including the nation meeting its new speaker from the house from the very real questions facing the real mike johnson to the saturday night live debut what you see there in a mock meeting with president biden for halloween. we have more on that and a special guest on that longtime biden chief of staff, ron clain is here and it s the first time on the program since leaving the white house and also later tonight, a report from the middle east, but our top story right now is a new procedural victory for doj prosecutor jack smith and the legal loss for defendant donald trump who got in trouble for his own recent aide turned dishing doj mark meadows. they re-gagged trump and that s a technical legal way to put it. you may have heard about this, i ll walk you through it right now. basically late sunday the federal judge overseeing that open coup case reinstated a partial gag order that bars defendant trump from attacking witnesses and others and that order had been on hold basica