and another loss for the trump movement sweeping across the state. thanks to all of you for getting up way too early with us on this wednesday morning a jammed back morning joe starts now. on a basis that every single pundit and legal analyst said there is no case. 34 felony counts of falsifying business records in the first degree. he knew there was no case. it was a felony to falsify business records with intent to defraud. everybody said this is not really an indictment, there s nothing here. these are felony crimes in new york city state. my lawyers said there s nothing here. the defendant repeatedly made false statements. they re not not saying what you did. he always caused others to make false statements. charging a former president of the united states for the first time in history. everyone stands equal before the law. donald trump and manhattan district attorney, alvin bragg, held two very different news conferences following yester
Statement visit. There you see the live images from the white house where in just moments the president will greet the Prime Minister of australia. Also in washington, fourth times the charm. The house could vote as early as noon today on their latest speaker designee. Who is mike johnson and can he succeed where three others failed . Thanks so much for joining us. Its 10 00 eastern, im Ana Cabrera Reporting from new york, and we begin with the breaking news at the white house where we are about to see President Biden welcome the Prime Minister of australia, and this is an official state visit with a world leader, and hence, all of this pomp and circumstance, its happening as the tensions build in the middle east right now. You see these live pictures from gaza where we see Smoke Billowing once again from air strikes. The calls growing for a cease fire now in this war between israel and hamas. But lets start with nbc news senior White House Correspondent Gabe Gutierrez whos standing by
as a defendant we could tell you he was rolling a deep get again. he arrived with top republican fee gears but also the disgraced doj official jeffrey clark was in the courtroom. indeed, it was inside of the courtroom we continued our group coverage today of the defense, the witness, the lawyers seeing them all up close a few hours ago when i was in front of the new york criminal courthouse. i m a member of the whole wide ranging team reporting on the trial for you, the da has been on offense for we s with damning receipts, strong witnesses we ve told you about. today s continued heat on michael cohen s slowing the prosecutor s momentum in the trial. trumps lawyers conducting of winding and relentless cross examination which has the das case wobbly. worse news for the da here is that the jury has now seen michael: admit or confirm a bunch of his own mistakes and lies. that s just a problem but it doesn t mean they can t win the case but it reminds everyone who s been followin
Manager, respectively. We are waiting to hear from the lawyers. But we can tell you at this point, the president is off to West Virginia to continue doing what he does. As president of the United States, a town in economic recovery. We will leave it up to that. The five is not. Welcome to the five. We are covering three breaking new stories this out. Guilty of 8 of 18 counts in his child. Have Major Developers with Michael Cohen. President trumps lawyer reaching a plea deal. In a News Conference in iowa after missing College Student Mollie Tibbetts has been found. We will bring you there live as soon as heavens. We will head to chief National Correspondent ed henry for latest on the cohen plea deal. First, live in alexandria, virginia, for the verdict of Paul Manafort. Just in the last 45 or 60
seconds, we watch as kathleen mena fort, all metal parts wife exits surrounded by cameras and reporters asking how she thinks and how she feels. She did not respond. Now we wait for manaforts De
The latest news from around the world with hosts John Berman and Poppy Harlow. To its the same thing as an indictment. The prosecutors just didnt have to go through getting a grand jury to sit. The information doesnt have this language about the president. Michael cohen, of course, in his allocution to his guilty plea stood up and stated he did these Campaign Finance law violations at the best of the president. But you think its notable its not included on paper . I do. Theres the buzzword unindicted coconspirator. The president is not technically an unindicted coconspirator. Hes not mentioned in the information so i think that was a real move on the part of the prosecutors not to go one step deeper. It would have been different if they named him in the information. What do you think they didnt, paul . Its an interesting set of charges against cohen. The charge essentially is that the payment to stormy daniels
and Karen Mcdougal were Campaign Contributions that were unreported and they