developments from trump s many legal problems. we begin with developments about the former president s rough time in court over fraud today. closing arguments underway in the case against trump and his two eldest sons in the entire allegedly fraudulent trump organization. you can see trump in atep dance. he s been in more courtrooms than campaign events. he turned towards cameras every time he could. he lashed out at the judge and the attorney general. and he did his set of grievances. there were closing arguments on behalf of donald trump by trump himself got involved briefly. as we reported on this program yesterday here on msnbc, donald trump is a civil defendant here. his request to speak during closing arguments or give some sort of grand closing statement, that was denied by the judge for a simple reason. donald trump s own lawyers basically refsed the rules that would bar personal attacks. you can see some of the court sketches as that was all dealt with. now the judge
out of the supreme court breaking news about this, this drug it is called mifepristone. it is a pale about the size of an aspirin and it is the first of two pills used in the most commo form of abortion here in the united states. it s medication abortion it is safe it is effective. and it is significantly less invasive than a surgical abortion and if you have been following the news, you would know tha, am -appointed federal judge i texas ruled that despite thi drug being used safely for 2 years now, the fda was wrong t approve the drug and his ruling had the potential to take the drug off the market altogether. so, tonight s decision from th supreme court was pretty clear it means this will not happen, at least not yet the supreme court issued wha is known as a stay, meanin they are effectively blockin that texas judges decision while this case is appeale through our court system maybe even all the way back to the supreme court down the roa now, the lower court battle is c
supreme court was pretty clear it means this will not happen, at least not yet the supreme court issued wha is known as a stay, meanin they are effectively blockin that texas judges decision while this case is appeale through our court system maybe even all the way back to the supreme court down the roa now, the lower court battle is complicated and we the, and ma lead to some chaos down th line for mifepristone access and we are going to talk t experts about that in just a moment but for now, for tonight, this drug is still widely available so, on a practical level, that is where we are. the question is, on a lega level, tonight s ruling is als quite interesting. there s a majority of justices who approved tonight s stay. but at least two did not that s justice clarence thomas said that he would have denied this day he did not explain why it was just a single line in this ruling that says he disagrees. and justice samuel alito wrote a full dissent, we are going t ask our e
october 2020, we reported here on this show on something that we first learned about from one of the great historic, gigantic radio stations in the united states, the michigan behemoth, wwj radio in detroit, michigan. wwj has been on the air for more than 100 years. they re just a huge deal in american broadcasting history. they are still on the air today. they are still a big deal today. and just about exactly two years ago, october 2020, we learned about a story that was broken by a reporter at wwj named sandra mcneill. she had gotten a tip from a listener to wwj in detroit. the listener told her that they received a really, really sketchy robocall about the november 2020 presidential election. now, as we all know, basically every robocall is sketchy, right? robocalls by definition are shady and annoying and almost always scammy, right? everybody knows that. but this one that this detroit resident got before the 2020 election. this one was so bad. it not only seemed worse t
our hearts leslie. thank you for the laughs and for the light, for the love, and your incredible warmth. you will truly be missed. and on that beautiful and very sad note, i wish you all the best. from all of our colleagues across the networks of nbc news, thank you for staying up late with us. i will see you at the end of tomorrow. tomorrow so, here s how it worked in 2020. two years ago, almost exactly in october 2020, we reported here on this show on something that we first learned about from one of the great historic gigantic radio stations and the united states, that the michigan behemoth that is wwj radio in detroit, michigan. wwj has been on the air for more than 100 years. they re just a huge deal in american broadcasting history. they are still on the air today. they are still a big deal today. and just about exactly two years ago, on october, 2020, we learned about a story that was broken by a reporter at wwj, named sandra mcneill. sandra mcneill had gotten a tip fr