we ll see you again tomorrow. and now it is time for the last word, with lawrence o donnell. good evening,. lawrence good, evening alex. we re gonna have more of blaine aleksandr s interview with that for a person of the georgia grand jury. it s a 42-minute interview. we used 13 minutes of it last night. that s the most that has been shown anywhere on nbc are msnbc. there is more. there s the pat cipollone part that no one has seen before. we will get to that later in this hour. it is riveting television. i have seen some bits and pieces they did not make it to air, and you really could just screen the whole thing for you the entire hour. you really could. it s really something. and it s going to be irrelevant as soon as the district attorney fani willis makes four decision and goes forward. yes, and so that is why we much feast upon it now. it s all we have. right now it s all we have. and we have a right now, a handful of bread crumbs. i will be watching, lawren
welcome back to the cnn newsroom. i m jim acosta in washington. just minutes from now former president donald trump will be less than ten miles from the u.s. capitol, addressing a crowd of his adoring supporters as for all intents and purposes the front-runner for the 2024 gop nomination. despite his efforts to overturn the 2020 election, trump has been loading in several polls of republican voters as he delivers the keynote address at the annual cpac gathering later on this afternoon, even though other gop contenders are warning the party to move on from trump. his maga faithful have come to dominate the republicans long-time event. at any moment they will release the results of their straw poll. trump has won the last two with florida governor ron desantis coming in second. both times desantis has not formally announced for 2024 and is skipping this gathering. kristen holmes joins us from cpac where they re gathering in maryland just outside the nation s capital. kristen,
we ll see you again tomorrow. now it is time for the last word with lawrence o donnell. good evening, lawrence. good evening, alex. we are going to have more with blayne alexander s interview with that 4% of the jury. we east 14 of eight minutes of it last night. that s the most that has been shown anywhere on nbc are msnbc. there is more. there s the pat cipollone part that no one has seen before. we will get to that later in this hour. it is riveting television. i have seen some bits and pieces that did not make it to air. and you really could just screen the whole thing for the entire hour. you really could. it s really something. and it s going to be irrelevant as soon as the district attorney fani willis makes her decisions and goes forward. yes, and so that is why we much feast upon it now. it s all we have. right now it s all we have. and we have a right now, a handful of bread crumbs. i will be watching, lawrence. thank you, alex wagner. thank you. y
letting us into your homes during these extraordinary times. we are grateful. the beat with ari melber starts right now hi, ari. hi, noicolle thanks so much i m ari melber tonight we have a very big show, including an eye on that manhattan d.a. probe that may be closing in on president trump, and tonight in this life segment i will be including a major trump legal figure as my guest you re not going to hear that anywhere else right now because he s here sitting with me. the context is mr. michael cohen is heading back to testify again before this criminal grand jury tomorrow that s investigating trump. we know other trump aides, associates and allies have been there under oath that includes conway, hicks and others you see on the screen, which is an indication they are gathering evidence, that something is really happening. this is not about leaks, this is not about conjecture everyone from people in new york legal circles following this to trump s own lawyers see it as e
down with corps for her first television interview. and she draft dropped a whole lot of hints. did the grand jury recommend indictments of multiple people? yes. i will tell you, it is not a short list. we saw 75 people. and there are six pages of the report cut out. so, we are talking about more than a dozen people? i would say that, yes. are these recognizable names? names that people would know? there are certainly names that you would recognize, yes. there definitely are something that you would expect. the grand jury forewoman telling nbc today that the grand jury panel recommended that over a dozen people be indicted. doesn t is a lot. and on the one question that we are all wondering about did the special grand jury recommended an indictment against the former president? take a listen. did the grand jury recommend an indictment of former president trump? i am not going to speak on exact indictments. would we be surprised? are there bombshells of w