finally official. kevin mccarthy is the new speaker of the house after 15 hard-fought ballots and some serious late night drama. and a good saturday morning to you, i m katie fang, let s begin today s show getting caught up on how we got here. it started with the 14th vote late last night mccarthy managed to flip more of the hard-line republicans needed to win the speakership. but came up short one matt gates voted present. that led to a tense conversation on the house floor between the two men, and our show of visible frustration from mccarthy. and watch this. republican congressman mike rogers approaches matt gates to see something and a colleague pulls him back by putting a hand on his face. the moment showing how much anger was boiling over on the floor after several days of voting. and then for a moment it looked like republicans are going to adjourn, and start voting again on monday. but at the last second, or it was out that they suddenly had the votes. and of that 1
City. Gonna come back in court for the problems in your trial him and the former president slept with yet another 1000 fine for yet another gag order violation and the judge warning next time it could be jail time. What will donald trump have to say about that . Will see if he speaks once court wraps this hour. Welcome everybody im neil cavuto. Lets get right with. Need for you standing by at the white house where we understand the former president is going to speak out that gag orders right notwithstanding. What can you tell us . Neil cavuto former president is expected to speak at about 4 31 court and splitting in the crossexamination of the Brett Harrison office no other up to her direct examination concluded. Shes a financial supervisor at the Trump Organization shes going there for 25 24 years, she has about 50 affymetrix the accounts and she has gone through the prosecutors asking her about invoices to payments to Michael Cohen that were approved by Alan Weigle Berger former cfo
thank you for watching. we were just talking about the summer olympics, it s worth noting, that minutes from now, we will officially be two years out from the 2026 world cup that will take place right here in the u.s. after 30 years, and you can stream all the action live on telemundo and peacock so get your countdown clock started now. on that note, i wish you a very good night. from all our colleagues across the networks of nbc news, thank you for staying up late with me. okay, there is a lot going on tonight. the former president of the united states and presumptive republican nominee had a meeting with a probation officer today which is a thing we have to get used to saying. we will talk about what may have come up and how it could impact his sentencing coming up in a month. pennsylvania governor josh shapiro will talk about one of the biggest political questions of the moment. how should joe biden and democrats talk about trumps conviction and how much? we will sta
$6250 for each of his 28 years behind bars. from 2016 to 2020, 374 people wrongfully convicted of murder, 61% african-americans, have reunited with their families together they spent over 6000 years in prison. years. years they will never get back. that s all for this edition of dateline. i am craig melvin. thank you for watching. i am craig melvin and this is dateline. leading up to this assign what it was going to be like. i had so many thoughts leading to this assignment as to what it would be like. trying to imagine going down isoad, knowing it s a one- way trip. this moment where you get your last glimpse of the world around you, but that glimpse is through steelman mesh. louisiana highway 66. it s beautiful countryside and undoubtedly not lost on the countless men driven to the place where they will most likely die. that road ends here. the louisiana state penitentiary, a former plantation. the size of manhattan. 28 square miles. most people call it angola named
class= nosel > because it depends. if there is a conviction, that is something that can be appealed on the law. if there were legal mistakes that were made, if the jury was instructed improperly on the law, if evidence was kept out that was material, improperly, those kinds of things can be appealed, and it can take quite some time, and so there is recourse there, so really complicated, but let me just say thank you so much to our incredible team. it was really great to be here girding out with lawyers, and all of us having been in the courtroom. thanks so much for your perception and insight and personal stories and thank all of you for spending the last hour with us. if you can t get enough trump news, and you want to dig even deeper, try the msnbc podcast, prosecuting donald trump, hosted by mary mccord and me. have a great night. have a great night. we have never had a significant anniversary of d- day for democracy and western democracy felt is under threat and front