Good morning. 11 00 a. M. Eastern, 8 00 a. M. Pacific. I am jose diazbalart. Any moment now, testimony will resume in former president trumps hushmoney trial. The National Enquirer publisher, david pecker will be back on the stand detailing what prosecutors call a conspiracy to win the white house in 2016. Trumps lawyer denied any willful violation of the judges gag order. Trump faces 34 counts of falsifying Business Records related to a hushmoney payment made to an adult film actress, Stormy Daniels. With us now to talk more about this, nbc news correspondent, vaughn hillyard, outside the courtroom in manhattan, and senior fbi official, gerald coleman, and a former prosecutor, and a former new york Assistant Attorney General who led the investigation into Trump University. So as we await, vaughn, court to resume, take us what we have been seeing this morning so far . Reporter over the course of nearly an hour and a half, the gag order hearing that was in the works for the better part
Im going to allow an opportunity for every Single Member of the house to vote their conscience and will on this. Im willing to take personal risk for that because we have to do the right thing and history will judge us. I do not spend time Walking Around thinking about the motion to vacate. I have a job to do here and im going to do the job. Regardless of personal consequences, thats what were supposed to do. Speaker mike johnson pushing forward with a series of aid bills despite push back in his party. The question is how much will he need to lean on democrats to get that funding passed . Plus the senate dismisses articles of impeachment against Homeland Security secretary Alejandro Mayorkas. And what to expect today when Jury Selection picks up again in former President Trumps hush money trial. Good morning and welcome to Way Too Early on this thursday, april 18th. Im ali vitali in for jonathan lemire. And we begin this morning on capitol hill where House Speaker mike johnson is digg
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will be back in the room right now seeing a news night with abby. phillip starts the jury is deciding donald trump s fate and he is invoking mother teresa. that s tonight on newsnight good evening. i m abby phillip new york tonight. a jury of 12 men and women are considering whether to make donald trump, the first former president to be convicted of a crime after receiving instructions from the judge today, they deliberated for more than four hours and then they send back to notes. you ll hear what those notes were in just a moment and we ll discuss the significance of each of them. but first, you heard the prosecution and the defense making their closing arguments this week, the jury is deliberating over those right now. but now donald trump is making his own closing argument in the court of public opinion. it won t come as a surprise to you that it needs a hell of a lot of fact-checking i mean, what is very unfair as it i m not campaigning. did this room all day from
kaitlan collins starts. now see you tomorrow citing the source tonight, it is primary night and america with results coming in right now in a closely watched for public embrace and virginia, where former president donald trump is out for revenge and a handshake between a hug between to dictators. so we are thing here new images that are coming in from president putin in north korea were also expecting to get new details from the summit of these two nuclear-armed strong men a behind the scenes, look at donald trump and his time on the apprentice. the author who sat with donald trump for hours after he left the white house is here tonight. i m kaitlin collins and this is the source as we come on the air tonight. right now, the results are still coming in from several high-stakes primary races that are playing out across america tonight. the big test is whether revenge is resonating with republican voters. there is one race in particular that is exposing divisions, serious one