Right now cnn stories this hour on opposite coasts of the United States of america and Los Angeles Police are Making Scores of arrests as they swept through and antifa the war in camp man in the heart of uclas campus. Im taking tapper washington. Youre watching sports, Cnn Special Live Coverage and im Kaitlyn Collins in new york mark where in minutes Donald Trumps Hush Money Trial is going to resume. My weeks ago, we saw the former president of the United States walking back into court where he has no choice but to sit and listen two witnesses tell a story in which he is the main character and for which he could potentially end up in prison soon. Keith davidson, who was the former attorney for the Adult Film Star Actress and director stormy david. Stormy daniels will go back under the oath in minutes. The judges also going to hold a hearing to consider if the former president has again violated his gag order for me more times. So you will be able to see on the left hand of your screen
Sure, maria. Well, tell us, what happened first yesterday at final mediation talks . Was a deal ever close . You know, the judge has a gag order. Hell have my head if i talk about what went on during the mediation, but i think that he wanted to make sure that he did everything in his power to try to find a deal, if there was one to be found. You know, i appreciate the fact that he went through that effort. I was hopeful, but i think realistically that was going to be a tough thing to pull off. How much of an implication it was the fact the union leader did not show up to those mediation talks . Well, the leader of the bakers union sent his second in command to the meeting. I think that part of what we needed to sort of focus on is the hole thats been created by the strike and the financial damage from that strike and our inability to produce at some of our critical plants. Really just created a brand new hole that was too large to fill. Bankrupt companies dont have a lot of margin for
Its not just people in stores buying. Investors seem to be buying. This is the first black friday rally on friday in four years. This is the last hour of trading right now. Were on a halfday schedule because of the how days, so if you have any trades to get in before the closing bell today, this is the hour to do that. Its been a really mode from the getgo. Were off the highs right now right now were 102 at 12,939. We were knocking on 13,000s door earlier, pulling back from that right now. The nasdaq is up a person or 31 points, and the s p at this hour is up 11 points, almost a percent at 1402. A shortened trading day. If anyone was shorting the market today, they did take a beating. So why dont we take a closer look at todays move. Steve liesman and rick santelli. Gentlemen, thank you for joining us. How is the American Consumer . We would have stampeded out to like walmart or something. See what the bargains are. Thats the question, right . The consumer is certainly in better shape
With us, msnbc contributor mike barnicle, president of the council on Foreign Relations and author of the book a world in disarray Richard Haass who has some nice things to say about john bolton today. Great to get to that. Especially on his input on north korea, the situation there. Former assistant director of the fbis Counterintelligence Division, frank biglusi. Former chief of staff at the c. I. A. And department of defense, Nbc News National Security analyst jeremy bash is with us and nbc News National political reporter heidi przybilla. Joe is off this morning. Willie and i have got it here. Theres a lot to get to. President trumps lawyer, Rudy Giuliani, went on television again last night and seemed to indicate that the Trump Campaign did get dirt on Hillary Clinton from the russians. I dont think he meant to do that, did he . Yesterday the Senate Judiciary committee opened up their books on their interyous of the top Campaign Officials on the june 2016 trump tower meeting betwe
This box. But there is a big room. Im going to make you guess, im not going to let you see, hint, his name is Michael Avenatti. Hes hear to talk about what the president had to say, finally for the first time, spoke about Stormy Daniels. And now well hear what he has to say about the intersection with Michael Cohen and the special prosecutor. Please tell Michael Avenatti that i would pay very good money im super cheap to see them talking about anything, rather than the legal fights theyre in together. I think he would do that. I think hes itching to do that. Thank you, lawrence. Thank you, rachel. Well, donald trump did something today that we have never seen him do before. Not during his political career, his campaign, and his presidency. We have never seen donald trump do this before, he actually answered a yes or no question. He gets yes or no questions thrown at him all the time from reporters and he often says words in response from those questions but its often a barrage of words