To quote Stormy Daniels, when somebody attacks me, im going to defend myself. Those were some of the final words from the Adult Film Star before she was excused from the stand in Donald Trumps Hush Money Trial. It is good to be back with you. Im chris jansing, alongside my colleague, andrea mitchell. Defense lawyer suggested she was trying to extort him, and capitalizing on his fame with merchandise, prosecutors for their part pointing out that daniels was the target of nasty, threatening tweets for even coming forward about an alleged affair with donald trump. They asked daniels been telling the truth net positive or net negative in your life. Daniels response, negative. Over the next hour, well bring you live updates from the courtroom, the latest witness who will be back after the lunch break, a bookkeeper at the Trump Organization who handled checks, including of course the key checks, the ones in question in this hush money case. So lets bring in the panel joining us now, nbc Nati
Charlottesville because of what she believed in. She went to demonstrate against hatred, against bigotry and she lost her life in that city. Also this morning, we are taking note of this moment in history. The president of the United States making clear how he feels about what happened in the city of charlottesville. The president of the United States noted that the demonstrations which began as a protest in some ways against the removal of a statue of robert e. Lee and ended with people chanting antisemitic slogans, he said there were very fine people at this assembly. Listen. You also had people that were very fine people on both sides. You had people in that group excuse me, excuse me, i saw the same pictures as you did. You had people in that group that were there to protest the taking down of to them a very, very important statue and the renaming of a park from robert e. Lee to another name. All right. We are getting new reaction from leaders all around the country. There are new
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