cheney will give up her seat in january. she says her work is far from finished. we ll have much more from yesterday s primary elections just ahead. plus, we re learning more about who the fbi interviewed and what agents saw before they seized classified documents from the former president s home. meanwhile, in washington, president joe biden celebrates a major legislative win ahead of the midterms. something that seemed very unlikely just a couple of months ago. good morning and welcome to way too early on this wednesday, august 17th. i m jonathan lemire. thanks for starting your day with us. we ll begin this morning with a big win for former president trump and a huge loss for republicans against his lies about election fraud. gop congresswoman liz cheney, the vice chair of the january 6th select committee and a one-time leader of the house gop, was just ousted by a landslide in wyoming s primary. trump s name wasn t on the ballot, but he loomed large after he ma
This is a courtroom roundtable, everyone joining me was at the courthouse and it is basically going to be a gabfest in the hallways. Well, can i just say, trumbo ordered 14 pizzas for lunch. How many did you have . None. I dont know where the pizza was. You know . Hes not the best at sharing, i guess. Who likes a Chicken Ranch pizza . That was one. Anyway, im excited to see your courtroom gabfest. Michael cohen was on the stand for four point five hours today. He was as steady and calm and unfailingly polite as he has been throughout his testimony to everyones surprise. The politeness seems genuine. He says yes sir, and has answers to trumps lawyers crossexamination questions. There was even a moment where the politeness went both ways between Donald Trumps Criminal Defense Lawyer, todd lynch, and Michael Cohen after Michael Cohen give Todd Blackledge a detailed explanation of the new York City Tax business, including regulations of the Taxi Limousine Commission when Michael Cohen owne
And good evening, thanks for joining us. We were expecting fireworks in the first day of Cross Examination on Michael Cohen, the onetime fixture for the former starts now prompted a sidebar with the judge who asked blanche, blanche why are you making this about yourself the attorneys said he that he wasnt that he had a quote right to show the witnesses bias. The judge sustained the objection. The trial got back underway, but it was wasnt long before blanche returned to cohens Propensity Data Mouth off on social media, blanche asked cohen, quote, and on that same tiktok. So again, on april 23, you referred to President Trump when he left the courtroom, you said that he goes right into that little cage which is where he belongs in. Im going to clean up the language here effing caves like an animal. Do you recall saying that blanche asked in respond in quote, i recall saying that thats sort of set the tone for the rest of the hearing where the former president s attorney, a former federal
Into some embarrassing moments for the former president. At one point saying that if she were making up her story about sex with donald trump, quote, i would have written it to be a lot better today. Also Saw Testimony from Trump Organization bookkeeper about how closely he monitors the checks he writes detailing the attention he paid two amounts considerably smaller than 35,000 checks. He wrote to Michael Cohen the day ended with judge juan merchan and rejecting another trump motion for mistrial and denying his request to modify the gag order. He is under so we can talk about Stormy Daniels and capping it all off. Stormy daniels tweet this evening saying this about the former president , quote, real men respond to testimony by being sworn in and taking the stand in court oh, wait. Never mind. Back of the panel joining us conservative lawyer george conway, who was in court today what were your takeaways on my takeaway. Was that the continued crossexamination of Stormy Daniels was a com
Times by Donald Trumps lawyer today as she grilled Stormy Daniels during Cross Examination trying to portray her as a liar and an extortionist out to shake down the former president. The trial just breaking for lunch moments ago, but earlier today daniels facing really tough questioning accused of fabricating the salacious story of her sexual encounter with donald trump, something she has repeatedly denied. And under direct, she said telling her story actually put her life in danger referencing trumps notorious social media posts saying, quote, if you go after me, im coming after me. Daniel was asked who she thought trump was talking about. Her response, i wasnt sure but i thought it was me. Daniels is now finished after spending seven hours and 17 minutes on the stand, making way for Rebecca Manochio, a junior bookkeeper who worked as Allen Weisselbergs assistant. He was the chief Financial Officer at trump org. Im Chris Jansing reporting live at msnbc headquarters in new york city. F