President ial election, prosecutors in the Trump Election Interference Hush Money Trial today have turned to the core of the actual crimes, the actual criminal acts and criminal charges against the expresident. That scheme to cover up Hush Money Payments to Stormy Daniels, using falsified business records. On the stand right now, Trump Employee deborah tarasoff. She handled payroll. Her testimony is critical. She explains that only donald trump could sign checks that came from his personal account. Thats the one used to reimburse Michael Cohen for the Hush Money Payments. Trump did that, even after becoming president of the United States of america. She also testified that if trump did not want to sign a check, he didnt have to. She was one half of a double whammy against the expresident today. Testifying after mcconney. He was a codefendant of the expresident. That was back in the Civil Fraud Case Against Trump and the trump org. He testified that most of the money used to reimburse M
To defend her fathers record on womens rights. Not everyone in the audience was convinced. Im katty kay In Washington. Christian fraser is in london. A Us Nuclear Submarine pulled into a south korean port today. A us Aircraft Carrier arrives there soon. And tomorrow, all 100 us senators have been invited to the white house for a really unusual secure briefing on the crisis. Is the north korea situation at a tipping point, or is this political theatre from the white house . Earlier today, pyongyang carried out a major live fire Military Exercise to mark the 85th Anniversary of the founding of its armed forces. It is thought to be planning a sixth nuclear test mr trump says it is time to take off the blindfolds and solve the problem. According to the New York Times today, heres what the Trump Administration may be looking at. For more, i spoke to former Us Ambassador to the un just a short time ago. Governor richardson, how urgent do you think the north korean situation is at the moment
certainly, jim jordan is himself an expert in the weaponization of tools like demonization, character assassination, innuendo. he is quite an expert at all of those tools. the problem is, he hasn t found them in the biden administration. that doesn t mean he won t continue to try to insinuate that they are there. he is just looking for them. the washington post follows up on the jordan story with this. maga republicans will expect the house to do everything within its power. it s not clear the house can do all that much. many non-maga republicans will want to. jordan s committee seems devoted to creating the impression he is striking great blows against the biden administration on behalf of maga nation and its persecuted masses and on behalf of trump himself. i understand the withholding of
i know that s something that mika and i talked about a couple of days ago. it s not necessarily a weak case the evidence could be compelling, it could be corroborated, there could be a lot of it, but in terms of charges, it s less serious how do we know that? well, for one the underlying offense and we will see whether or not mr. bragg actually charges it, is a misdemeanor, by classification a relatively low-level crime. if we see felony charges and i expect we will they will probably be class e felonies under new york state law, again, a relatively low classification of felony. doesn t mean these charges don t matter, it doesn t mean he won t be held to account, but i agree generally, joe, with your supposition that the cases in georgia and the cases under investigation by jack smith as special counsel are probably weightier. all right former u.s. attorney chuck rosenberg, as always, we greatly appreciate your time
includes the possibility of appeal, right. you appeal. we re giving some consideration to that as well. but you haven t decided. finally we have not. trump opened his rally last weekend in waco, texas, is you know with a recording of the national anthem sung by january , 6th prisoners played over footage of january 6th. are you comfortable with that? no. tell us why. well, my. my wife, my daughter. my staff and i were evacuated first in my office off the senate floor. and then to the parking garage below the senate on january six. we stated our post. i know we did our job that day. by god s grace. we completed our work under the constitution of the united states. but on that day, uh, when i sent out a message calling on people to leave the capital immediately, and i made it clear my position, then continues to be today that those that engage in violence in the capital i believe i should be