He was attending this large event. Guad, thank you very much. Its good to see you. That wraps up the hour for me. Im jose diazbalart. You can reach me on social media. You can watch clips from our show. Thank you for the privilege of your time. Andrea mitchell picks up with more news right now. Right now on Andrea Mitchell reports, President Biden welcoming the president of kenya for a state visit. Elevating kenya to the status of a major nonnato ally. Thats important. Its a big move. The two leaders are scheduled to hold a joint News Conference this hour after meeting in the oval office. I will speak to a top biden advisor, former chair of the Senate Foreign relations subcommittee on african affairs. Nikki haley throwing her support behind former President Trump after previously calling him unstable and unhinged. Calling intensify for Supreme Court Justice Samuel alito to recuse himself from all 2020 election cases before the high court, after pictures of yet another flag used by janu
Fixer. Back with us, yasmin vossoughian, Danny Cevallos, Criminal Defense Attorney and msnbc legal analyst. Joining us this hour, maya wiley, former assistant u. S. Attorney who is now president of the Leadership Conference on civil and human right. And misty merits, a Defense Attorney. Good to see you. Welcome to the show. Yasmin, start us off. Whats happening now inside that courtroom . Reporter so this is all about the leadup to august 2018 in which Michael Cohen pleads guilty and then in a court of law, essentially points the finger at donald trump, the president at the time, and says he made me do it. Hence launching the inquiry by the manhattan d. A. s office, shifting to alvin bragg when cy vance retired. There was a conversation that happened. There was concern from david pecker, inquiries from the Wall Street Journal, specifically, when it came to involvements of ami, david pecker, dylan howard, Michael Cohen, and donald trump in the Stormy Daniels payoff. In addition to the i
First weve got huge news from this classified documents case. If you remember that case was set to kick off may 20th, less than two weeks from today. Weve been waiting for judge Aileen Cannon to set the trial date since march. But today we got the news the judge has postponed that trial indefinitely. This means the odds donald trump will end up in a florida courtroom before the general election, those odds are slim to none which is very good news for the former president. But less apparently good news for the former president is the fact trumpde was back in manhatn criminal court. Today was day 14 of the Hush Money Case against him and it was by no means a normal day. Today we got testimony from the central figure at the heart of this case, Adult Film Star stephanie clifford, who you probably know better as Stormy Daniels. As far as the spectacle of this trial goes today was a blockbuster. A lot of theay testimony really sounds like it was ripped from the tabloids, which makes sense be
You dont believe that to be the case . We acknowledge the threat, it is real, it is continuing. And were doing everything we can to have a legitimate election. If you dont catch a hacker, okay, in the act, it is very hard to say who did the hacking. With that being said, ill go along with russia. Could have been china, could have been a lot of different groups. Make no mistake, the scope of this foreign influence threat is broad and deep. Ive seen it described as two administrations. John mclaughlin says were seeing orwellian. You have senior advisers saying over and over again as you heard there. And then you have the president saying something entirely different. What do you make of it and what is the lasting effect of that . One thing that we didnt see in that clip is even john bolton said that the president supports our efforts and top priority. Exactly. But that is not true because the
of law, but court of public opinion. And he is really good at that about tapping into his base.
But, shazam, last week, you come forward with supposedly this new information . There is nothing different in there than what we had on the transcript. Maybe thats the reason their star witness, their first witness didnt bring it up. But they had to have something. So you are their closing witness because you overheard the president talking to Ambassador Sondland. Sir, if i can answer. I see four seconds left on the clock. Mr. Holmes, you may take as long as you need. Thank you, sir. I believe that ambassador taylor did already know when i briefed him when i returned from vacation on the 6th. It was not news to him that the president was pressing for a Bide Investigation. Thats not what i asked. I asked why he didnt share with us. Mr. Jordan, please do not interrupt the witness any further. Mr. Holmes your time expired yours has not. You may answer the question. Its exactly my point. I briefed the call in detail deputy chief commission. Come back, referred to the call and everyone is n