direct contact with stormy daniels s lawyer at the time, so that donald trump, through michael cohen, could just buy stormy daniels s silence directly. that didn t mean that the bossxd of the national enquirer escaped prosecutors s s attention. when they were prosecuting finance law, in an attempt to effect the outcome of the election by making a 130,000 dollar hush money payment to stormy daniels, three weeks before the 2016 presidential election. because silence of starlight stormy daniels was official put it mildly. the $130,000 violated campaign finance laws by exceeding the limit of campaign contributions and by not being recorded as a campaign contribution. the boss of the national enquirer, who was supposed to be the mastermind of the catching till scheme for donald trump, was a man named david pecker. here is how the new york daily great at the revelation in court, in the michael cohen case, that david pecker was a witness in the grand jury investigation. ther
millennials trying to be more ecofriendly. i think that s great. i was just at a consignment store today. thanks so much. well, the next hour of cnn newsroom starts right now. we want peace. we want peaceful protests. that s what the family wants. that s what the community wants. they have come out in a way that is in conjunction with what the family has asked for. they have been peaceful while they protest, but they are very, very disturbed. we re out here today because we believe that no one else should go through what tyre nichols went through. they are grateful that the video came out, so now the whole world knows what happened, that he was defenseless, that he was hopeless. look at how they dragged him out of the car. there was no human inside of those men. maybe we do have faith and hope that the system is going to get it right this time. i m pamela brown in washington, and you are in the cnn newsroom. and we begin this hour in memphis, tenness
begins in new york city, premiers sunday at 2:10 pm eastern on msnbc and wil stream on peacock. but tomorrow john will join me here in conversation right her in - premiere of this series. we ll have that show for you tomorrow you will not want to visit that is us for tonight i will see you again tomorrow. now it s time for the last wor with lawrence o donnell. good evening, lawrence o donnell. - at 9 pm. he sure is. he s my favorite, he s my favorite this and i ll be watching. yes, as well. i thank you, alex wagner. thank you. we begin this hour wit breaking news about supreme sheldon whitehouse a member of the senate judiciary committee committee is calling for a investigation of justice thoma tonight by attorney genera merrick garland. quote, for potential violation of the ethics of government ac under chapter five of th united states code, section 13 106. senator whitehouse will be our first guest tonight in thi breaking news coverage of first in american histo
you are live in the cnn newsroom. i m jim acosta in washington. today the attorney for the family of tyre nichols is calling the video of the 29-year-old being beaten by officers a watershed moment, one that the attorney hopes will lead to federal police legislation reform. late yesterday, we learned that the memphis police department had shut down the controversial scorpion unit that the officers charged in this killing belonged to. that news coming less than 24 hours after graphic video of tyre nichols being beaten and tased by officers was released to the public. again, i want to warn our viewers, what you re about to watch is disturbing. ah! mom! mother mom! give me your fucking hands, man! give me your fucking hands! give me your hands! give me your hands! hey! cnn s isabel rosales joins me now. isobel, what led to the chief deciding to do this step of deactivating the unit? and what more do we know about what s happening with this case? hey, jim. so
The indictment of the former President Donald Trump im here tonight with my msnbc colleagues, jonathan came our, host of the saturday and sunda shows. Host of simone, and katie phang, host of the Katie Phang Show in just less than 24 hours, th president will be teflon don coming to an end. Nbc news has one of the around 30 counts related t trumps alleged role in Th Hush Money payments made t Stormy Daniels he will appear in court in New York City on tuesday his campaign now says trum will give a speech a maralago that same evening trumps legal team said toda they are quote, not doin anything, and quote, at th enrollment, but will instead wait for the arraignment to be unsealed we will take the indictment we will dissect it the team will look at ever potential issue that we will b able to challenge and we wil challenge it of course a very muc anticipate emotions becaus theres no law that fits this. There is no law that fits this we are likely to get a first look at the indictment oursel