Its now 4 00 in new york. This Morning A Key chapter until the first ever criminal trial of an american expresident came to a close. The Testimony Phase of the people of the great state of new york vermont vs. Donald trump is over after the defense rested its case and trump in the end did not testify. Although just a few weeks ago, he said this, quote, im testifying. I tell the truth. Whatever that means. Happening right now in court, prosecutors and trumps Defense Attorneys are discussing the instructions that the judge will give to the jury. Its incredibly important. Where donald trump faces 34 Felony Charges for falsifying Business Records in order to conceal another crime. Well keep you posted on all of the updates out of those proceedings. We turn to the dramatic events this morning in court. Team trump resting its case, one was a paralegal and the other was the attorney robert cost tell la lo. Whatever credibility he had left after his outburst in court, the ones that resulted in
States, georgia and michigan, to reach out to black voters in those states. This morning, we want to hear from black voters only about your choice for campaign 20 24. If you live in the Eastern Central part of the country, dial in at 202 7488000. Mountain pacific, 202 7488001. Black voters only can also text this morning at 202 7488003. Or you can post on facebook. Com cspan and also on x. We will spend our first 30 minutes hearing from black voters only, and then we will open up to everybody else and also take your temperature on campaign 2024, your choice in november. That is our conversation in our first hour. Lets begin with some battleground polls from the New York Times. In these six key states, shows the matchup between President Biden and former President Donald Trump. In michigan, where the president was last evening, he trails 49 to 42 . He began the day yesterday in georgia at Morehouse College with the commencement address, and he is also trailing the former president in th
The current president on cnn on june 27 and on abc on september 10. Biden said he had received and accepted an invitation from cnn and agree to participate in abcss news form too. Here is biden initial challenge via x early this week. He had not shown up for a debate and he is acting like he wants to debate me again. Make my day. I will even do it twice. I heard you are free on wednesdays. Host here is on her talking about this upcoming talks here is donald trump talking about his upcoming talks. [video clip] i will demand a drug test by the way. I really am. I do not want him coming in like the state of the union, high as a kite. Is that joe up there . By the end of the evening he is a like that was exhausting. We demand a drug test. They will be fair. You have to deal with it. [end video clip] host he will speak of the 2020 four nra Leadership Forum in dallas at 3 00 p. M. Eastern and you can watch that on cspan now or on our free mobile video at or online at cspan. Org. Those debate
President say, 100 of first female black Vice President s. Its important what he has highlighted. It speaks to a concern that folks have about the support of hbcus, 16 billion is not cheap. Simone, thank you so very much. Its a pleasure to see you. Catch simone saturday and Sunday Morning at 8 00 a. M. Eastern as she cohosts the weekend right here on msnbc. Andrea mitchell picks up with more news next. Right now on Andrea Mitchell reports, President Biden trying to fire up lagging support from black voters, speaking at the National Museum for African American history on the anniversary of the Brown Versus Board Of Education decision and facing an uncertain reception when he delivers the Commencement Speech at moorehouse. Sparks fly between Marjorie Taylor greene and aoc. How dare you attack the physical appearance of another person. Oh, girl, baby girl. The trump Hush Money Case moves closer to Closing Arguments and going to the jury, how much impact will the showdown between Donald Tr
Area, but around the country. Lets hear your reaction. What do you think really happened here . Well, we can only talk about we dont know what happened other than the feds did not see anything they can charge him with, so the statute of limitation passed. He is still the chairman of the Democratic Party and still has tremendous amount of influence in capitol hill. I mean, they call him the mayor of capitol hill. Now, what we have lost is a Senior Leader who would have been chairman of committees from congress. You know, this is a trend where more and more members of congress who are incumbents are dissatisfied with how what the job is, and because its such a tough job youre all day long reacting to complaints and criticisms by the constituency. There is no resultoriented job anymore because youre not accomplishing much. Youre just sort of dealing with crisis and complaints. He did mention partisanship. You know, trey gowdy, congressman brady, many of them are not deciding to run again.