Morning tv. The 11th hour on a busy friday night gets underway. Good evening once again. From our nbc news headquarters in new york, day 421 of the Trump Administration and we actually have two lead stories as we begin here on a friday night. The attorney general, Jeff Sessions, has just fired the former deputy fbi director, Andrew Mccabe a little more than 24 hours before mccabe was set to retire after over two decades as a federal employee. President trump was highly critical of mccabe, attacked him publicly a number of times and always the Washington Post points out, mccabe has become a lightning rod. It was about misleading investigators about conversations he had with the media about an investigation into the clinton foundation. Additionally tonight we have a Major Development on the Stormy Daniels front as the president s lawyers have come out with an allout attack looking for 20 million from the porn star, a first for a sitting president. But first, the dismissal tonight of Andr
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defense or the judge. it was the 12 citizens. 18 if you consider the alternates, the jury. they didn t ask for this, but they took on the task of being the jury in the first criminal trial of an american president. for five weeks they put their lives on hold, and this is the really important part that i am looking ahead and forward to. possibly they are putting their lives at risk. they took this job seriously. they listened to hours and hours of testimony. they examined hundreds of pages of documents. and then they made a decision. they listened to evidence. they put country, they put justice first. and my hope looking forward is that each and every one of them is protected and safe. because they certainly deserve it. thank you all so much. what an unbelievable week. i am honored to end it with you all. katie, tim, danny, john, thank you so much. and remember, we are not done. you can watch the nightcap most
trumpets if you throw out the attitudes. if you throw out matthew 25. and the irony of the situation as trump as a christ figure is it was mixing conservative religion and authoritarian politics that got jesus killed in the first place. they don t know how to defend him. they are just attacking the system itself. that is why it is so moving to me to see the republican party finally embracing criminal justice reform, because they re going to start fighting for a convicted felon to get daily briefings really soon. danny, let s talk about something that the jury did that, as lawmakers haven t. anyone member of this jury could have ignored all evidence and said not guilty. and if they had they could immediately have monetized it and become a right-wing media star. they would be on television. they would be doing speaking appearances. maybe they could get a job in the next potential trump administration. how extraordinary is it that these 12 ordinary new yorkers, none of whom asked for th
how do you think this verdict will impact the election? and the first thing i want you to do, danny, because they re all these people out there who think he is a convicted felon, he must not be allowed to run anymore. that is not the case. explain. there are exactly 3 qualifications in the constitution to be the president, and we cannot add to nor delete those qualifications. so, none of those include or have anything to do with being a felon or even being charged with a crime. and there is precedent. we have had a candidate run for office, really from a jail cell. not a candidate with any real chance of winning. donald trump is the first ever to be convicted and run, and what is still an open constitutional question is whether president can be jailed and whether a president can run the country from a jail cell. we don t know the answer that. we have tons of people like me with opinions about it. but we really don t know until it happens. willing to find out. so there is no felon