And sunday. Next, msnbc prime weekend. Welcome to primetime weekend. Im nicolle wallace. Cabinet would have all the best people. The best and the finest. We will have the best people in the world. The voters believed him. Promises to surround himself with the best people. We will let the extremely high turnover rate. The disgraced expresident eyes and other term. Expect the definition of the best people to have changed. Now simply the undying loyalty. Take what he did at the rnc installing his daughterinlaw. To leave the rnc with the model. If trump does win back the white house. He will fill his administration with people who share his every impulse and goals of an anti democratic extremist policy agenda. People like Jeffrey Clark. Been flooded from the Attorney General. A former doj official after the 2020 election. Going to overthrow the results. Efforts could land clark in legal hot water as he is moments away from being disbarred. Politico reports eight Disciplinary Panel in washi
a very important friday. we will reconvene the courthouse gang for this hour to go over what we have all been through and, alex, just a word about a banana republic. i despise the term and have despised it for so long now because it carries the assumption that countries that grow bananas, and we know where they are, somehow inherently have inferior governments to ours. which we have proven many times before is not true and nothing proves that better than the trump years and, oh, by the way, we grow bananas in hawaii. agriculturally and ethically, great points, lawrence, as always. thanks, alex. have a great show. thanks. well, it was a one word sentence that changed donald trump s life. he wasn t expecting to hear that word yesterday. at 4:15 p.m., judge merchan told defendant donald trump and his lawyers, the prosecutors in the courtroom, quote, i m going to excuse the jury about 4:30. we will give them a few more minutes and then we will excuse them. donald trum
12 new yorkers have affirmed the principle that no one in america, not even a former president, is above the law. a jury unanimously found donald trump guilty on 34 felony counts of falsifying business records. the criminal case hinged on the testimony and evidence of the trials narrator, trumps fixer turned foe, michael cohen. he joins us here now. he is the author of disloyal, the true story of a former personal attorney to president donald j trump and how trump weaponized the u.s. department of justice against his critics. is also the host of the mea pope and political podcast. i am so busy. i want to get some context here. when this all began for you in many respects, at that time trump is in the white house, you had gotten caught up in this thing on your way to prison , how, having this, full-circle and watching what occurred this week, do you appreciate that role? that narration? i thought it was very interesting and important for you to frame this chapter in this c
arguments, the trial of the people of the state of new york versus donald j. trump is in the hands of seven men and five women, 12 jurors who will decide the first criminal case of a former president of the united states who weighed in just moments ago. mother teresa could not beat these charges. these charges are rigged. the whole thing is rigged. i mean that, mother teresa could not beat those charges. we will see. we will see how we do. today, white house saying a deadly israeli attack that killed at least 21 people in a tent encampment inside rafah does not cross the president s red line against a major ground offensive. questions though are being raised about whether israeli forces used american munitions in the strike. on the campaign trail, president biden and vice president kamala harris heading to philadelphia for a rally to try to shore up lagging support among critical a critical democratic constituency, black voters. good day, everyone. i m andrea mit
been in decline for many years. we are hoping for him, that he has time to just relax, be with his family, recuperate his health and just be a normal person again. thank you so much for sharing your thoughts and your this moment you are having as a family. we appreciate it. that s going to do it for us. see you back here tomorrow. andrea mitchell picks up our coverage right now. right now on andrea mitchell reports, ready for a rematch. presidents biden and former president trump, cramming in their own ways, focusing on the tactics and their opponent s triggering ahead of the first presidential debate now just two days away. israel s defense minister at the pentagon today after criticizing prime minister netanyahu. the man behind one of the most damning leaks of u.s. classified documents in history, setting julian assange on a path to life as a free man. good day, i m andrea mitchell in washington. biden campaign insiders telling nbc news the president is prep