Hi, everyone. Its 4 00 in new york. Theres no shortage of news today in the legal troublesing the disgraced expresident and current gop front runner, including a third trump lawyer and fourth trump associate earlier today Pleading Guilty in the Fulton County Criminal Election interference case. We begin with a moment years in the making at Aen Manhattan courthouse. The disgraced expresident coming face to face with Michael Cohen, the former fixer who said he would take a bullet for donald trump now, Star Witness In That Civil Fraud Trial that threatens to bring down the trump business empire. Here is what Michael Cohen said on arrival at court today. Let me just turn around and say that this is not about donald trump vs. Michael cohen. This is about accountability, plain and simple. We leave it up to the judge in order to make all the duststorm nations. I thank you all for coming. A few hours later in what he called a, quote, heck of a reunion, he took the stand in the 250 million civi
Good morning. It is 11 00 a. M. Eastern, 8 00 a. M. Pacific. Im jose diazbalart. Right now, the jury is in recess and former President Trumps new york Hush Money Trial. It comes after testimony resumed earlier this morning when jurors did leave for recess, they were hearing from georgia longstreet, a paralegal who works on the manhattan district attorneys office. Her testimony coming after jurors heard more from a forensics data expert, with the manhattan district attorneys office, who inspected Text Messages, recordings, secret recordings and other data from phones owned by former trump attorney Michael Cohen. With us to talk about all of this, msnbc National Correspondent yasmin vossoughian, outside the courthouse in manhattan, danny cevallos, Criminal Defense Attorney and msnbc legal analyst, phyllis cote, senior judge and Clinical Professor of law and director of the externship and pro bono program. What has been happening inside the courtroom . This break is probably for a short p
barred. his lawyer argues it was all free speech, and in fact in the lawyers words, it wasn t like trump carried a pitch fork to capitol hill. but is that the legal bar? and a $100 billion battle escalating on capitol hill. the aid to israel and ukraine is, in the words of our top diplomat, all part of one fight. but a lot of house republicans, including the new speaker, are trying to split that money into two bills. democratic senator bob casey of the intelligence committee joins me on the controversy and the possible consequences in just a minute. but we start in gaza, where the u.n. says an immediate humanitarian cease-fire has become a matter of life and death for millions. and there are now reports coming in of explosions in a refugee camp, right on the fringes of gaza city. in the words of that chief u.n. official, quote, the scale of the horror they re experiencing in gaza is hard to convey. he said people are becoming more desperate by the hour. at least four u.n
sunset monday to mark the massacre. he and vice president harris will be in atlanta tomorrow to meet with leaders of the city s asian-american community. earlier today atlanta police insisted the investigation is far from over. we are not done. we re still working very diligently to ascertain all of the facts so we can have a successful prosecution. the investigation into a possible hate crime, is that still on the table? nothing is off the table for our investigation. is there any indication the suspect visited those spas previously? it appears he may have frequented those locations, yes. all we do know is he purchased the gun on the day of the incident. on that same line the fbi is assisting local law enforcement with the investigation. this was interesting. tonight the fbi director chris wray told npr, quote, it does not appear that the motive was racially motivated. the suspect who s charged with eight counts of murder waived an arraignment scheduled for today
Inside the biden agenda. Overnight a stunning report in the New York Times on how top Trump Justice Department officials were nearly forced to resign after the former president and his supporters hatched yet another plot to overturn the election results. Well have more on that in just a moment. First, this week ushered in a time of change and renewal in this country. The inauguration of joe biden and Kamala Harris representing the peaceful transition of power that is central to our democracy. It took place at the same site where over two weeks ago there was a violent attack on congress. Unlike in years past crowd size at the event of the limited because of covid19 and security concerns. Joseph r. Biden was sworn in as the 46th United States president and sounded a note of peace and unity. And my whole soul is in this, bringing america together, uniting our people and uniting our nation and i ask every american to join me in this cause. We must end this uncivil war that pits red against