Also tonight, donald trump is wasting his time in the bronx, following a Head Spinning week as a criminal defendant. Purveyor of nazi rhetoric, and bald faced liar that he was a target for assassination. Plus, how ron desantis fresh from his humiliating president ial campaign, is coopting the Civil Rights Era term Freedom Summer, to push his hateful agenda. We begin tonight with a very stark reality in america. Elections have consequences. And because this country elected donald trump in 2016, we have the most Extremist Supreme Court in modern history. Yesterday, the niemsz reported that Justice Samuel alito didnt just fly an upside down flag outside his virginia home, he also proudly displayed a flag that has become a symbol of Christian Nationalism outside his new jersey summer home. The flag seen here is called the appeal to heaven flag, which like the inverted u. S. Flag was carried by the Rioting Insurrectionists at the capitol on january 6th. Now, some will claim its a Revolution
Beat. The reidout with joy reid starts now. Tonight on the reidout how do you plead to the five counts of conspiracy to commit intentional interference in the performance of Election Duties . Guilty. How do you plead to the six counts to perform Election Duties . Guilty. How do you plead to count 15, filing false documents in indictment 23sc188947 . Guilty. Our show tonight is brought to you by the number three. Kenneth chesebro becomes the third codefendant to plead guilty and agree to tell a Jury Everything he knows about trumps plot to overturn the Georgia Election results. While on capitol hill, it was speaker vote number three that ultimately sank the maga hopes and dreams of jim jordan to become americas insurrection friendly speaker of the house. And tonight, more than three new candidates are throwing their hat into the ring for the gavel. Plus, a Major Development in The Middle East tonight, as we see the first photo of an American Mother and daughter after having been freed f
Good to be with you, im katy tur. The Hush Money Trial of former President Trump. Defense attorney todd blanche is going through cohens direct hm. Cohen is talking about his dealing with the press as a Quote Surrogate of mr. Trumps campaign, and the secret recordings he made of the former president. Blanche is starting to dig into the stories cohen attempted to bury about trump. This goes back to early days of this trial, alongside National Enquirers david pecker. Joining us now, Nbc News National Correspondent Yasmin Vossoughian outside the court, back with us. Chuck rosenberg, catherine christian, and Danny Cevallos. Yasmin, what is happening right now . Reporter theyre talking about the calls beginning in june of 2016. This is when cohen alleges he informed the former president of the united states, his boss at the time there was a meeting between mcdougal. This was the beginning of the payoff by ami. It was october in which the payoff was made to Stormy Daniels, initial contact bet
Outs, pro palestinian folks who believe any action by palestinian is justified and i ignore what they have to say. Sandra a couple things across the wire, a second member has been killed in the Isreali Shelling on lebanon. And this, governor, christie, hamas official it says they are open to discussions over a truce with israel. That crossing right now. How should that be interpreted and treated considering we are about to hear from Benjamin Netanyahu who says, we will not negotiate. No, look. This is not the moment to gauge that and the reason why, the hamas leaders are saying that is because they sucker punched israel, Killed Hundreds of people, and now they say, okay, now we would like to go back to play the way it used to be. No, theyve changed The Field Of Play now. And the isrealis have an absolute right to defend themselves and to ferret out and eliminate those people in hamas who perpetrated this horrible attack. And lets not forget, the iranians clearly here were supplying bot
No matter how much money you think you may have, no one is above the law. So trump in his comments as he continues to talk to the media there, is calling her racist, calling this the biggest witch hunt of all time. Lets bring in our guests and analysts to talk more about what we can expect in this trial. Nbcs Vaughn Hillyard is outside the courthouse. Also joining us, assistant Manhattan District Attorney Catherine Christian and civil attorney Danny Cevallos. Vaughn, tell us what we can expect to happen in court today in terms of the trial kicking off. Well wait to see if any witnesses are brought forward. You see donald trump standing alongside alina habba, his legal spokeswoman. You see jason miller, his Campaign Senior advisor. Just out of frame we saw his lead attorney on this case, chris kise who just met Attorney General Letitia James inside the courthouse. They briefly exchanged pleasantries and shook hands. Leticia james was joined by other prosecutors in the office. We dont ex