The tornado outbreak. 17 across multiple states, and where the threat is headed tonight. Nearly eight weeks after it destroyed that bridge in baltimore, that massive ship finally moved out. The crew still on board. Sean diddy combs apologizing after video showed him violently attacking his exgirlfriend. The growing fallout. And the powerful new memorial at the site of one of americas darkest chapters. Announcer this is nbc nightly news with lester holt. Good evening and welcome. The prosecution in the Donald Trump Criminal Trial has rested its case against the former president after doing its best to rehabilitate the credibility of its star witness, former trump fixer michael cohen. Day 4 of cohen on the stand featured more crossexamination by the defense. Trump lawyer todd blanche resumed his mission to paint cohen as a serial liar bent on revenge. Even getting cohen to admit he had stolen Tens Of Thousands of dollars from the trump organization. And then late today the defense starti
Coverage of Donald Trumps criminal trial, in a week that could be make or break as key witness Michael Cohen took the stand, and found himself on defense with trumps fate now hanging in the balance. The star would take the stand against donald j trump. Michael cohen is the star witness in the new york versus trump trial. The expresident came face toface with the man who used to do his dirty work who has now turned into the key witness. Everything required mr. Trumps sign off. Will he keep his cool when trumps lawyers begin what could be intense . The punches are building. I think that tuesday, there were bruises and today, there is blood. If i was a juror in this case watching that, i would say, this guys making it up as he goes. Is he . Weve heard different people, leaguer legal experts and other advertisers. Several times, covering this trial, including the key cross thursday. Michael did give the d. A. S what they wanted, including corroboration of what he says words realtime proof
Warning not to give him, quote, side eye. It came after Michael Cohens final day on the stand and what he admitted to stealing from the trump organization. Our team at the courthouse. Also tonight, irans president confirmed dead in a Helicopter Crash along with eight others. What caused it and how will it impact middle east tensions . Plus his defiant words to me in his last u. S. Network interview inside iran before his death. The International Criminal court seeking Arrest Warrants for israeli Prime Minister netanyahu and hamas leaders, accusing them of war crimes. How netanyahu and the u. S. Are firing back. The tornado outbreak. 17 across multiple states, and where the threat is headed tonight. Nearly eight weeks after it destroyed that bridge in baltimore, that massive ship finally moved out. The crew still on board. Sean diddy combs apologizing after video showed him violently attacking his exgirlfriend. The growing fallout. And the powerful new memorial at the site of one of ame
Lisa ribbon, Suzanne Craig and katie vang were inside the courthouse. Plus nicolle wallace, and Catherine Christian as special Coverage Of Trump On Trial begins. Now. Good evening and thanks for joining us for our msnbc prime time recap of the criminal trial of former President Donald Trump. Im here tonight along with my colleagues. Big night. Todays proceedings unexpectedly to me were like that helpful moment in the old Agatha Christie style british detective story. Youve been following along more or less, you know who most of the characters are, you can at least remember most of their names. You know the basic plot of the mystery but then there is this kindness, this great helpful moment in the story where the detective sits down under some stupid pretense with some other character and in their conversation they give you all the answers. Its okay you havent been playing close attention all along. They are going to recap the whole story and not only will they get to the big answer, th
Countrys president suffered a hard landing earlier today. Irans Foreign Minister and other officials were on board. The helicopter was flying in an remote region. Search and rescue operations are still ongoing. Lets go to Josh Letterman in london. Josh, phyllis and with the rest of the details phil us in with the rest of the details. What do we know right now . Reporter it is after midnight in iran and has been more than 10 hours as a helicopter carrying the iranian president and also his Foreign Minister went down. The iranian president was on his way back from a visit to a new dam built near the border when this helicopter went down in what has been described by iranian media as and hard landing. Other reports have called it a crash. We know it took place in harsh weather conditions. At this point in time the status of the iranian president and Foreign Minister are unknown. We know for hours rescue officials have been trying to reach them, trying to figure out exactly where they are.