Strikes Many Americans as contrary . Most fundamental democratic principles, yes, he said, no. In fact, he said, i think a lot of people like it all right. Eric, thank you. And thanks to all of you. Its time for ac30, 60 good evening. Thanks for joining our special palm time coverage and the trump hush money criminal trial. They nine saw something remarkable former president held in Contempt Of Court and threatened with jail time. And the lawyer who represented two of the women who alleged affairs with trump, testifying about the deals he made to buy their silence, the contempt ruling made history and made the man you see there, a convicted criminal, judge, juan merchan, finding he violated the gag order. He is under nine times quoting from his ruling, this Court Rejects defendants arguments and finds that the people have established the elements of Criminal Contempt beyond a reasonable doubt. Criminal contempt, no, sitting or former president has ever been found guilty of any crime be
asking of him, you will take a different course? what were you proposing they are exactly? in crisis it is important there is one message being given to citizens, otherwise that can lead to confusion. my frustration at the lack of clarity from the government s messaging, don t use public transport, but go to work, and so forth, was leading to confusion. the point i was trying to get across was, if it was the case, i knew this from a conversation i had had on thursday, if it is the case you yourself for a variety of reasons don t want to have a stricter message, i will say to londoners, you know, do certain things to save your lives. as we have explored, it would not have been open to you to order a mandatory lockdown itself. what you are describing is, departing from the government s messaging, you would be seeing something different to the governments, you would be encouraging londoners to do more by way of staying at home and so on, than the national gamut was telling them.
if we look at the bottom of the page, there is an e mail dated the 8th of march, which is a sunday, again from someone in your office to claire brunton, a request to attend the cobra that was going to happen the cobra that was going to happen the next monday. a very similar request, can the mayor come to the cobra, given the recent impact? this time, we can see that the same response is received, if we can go up response is received, if we can go up to the top of that page, there is a response on the monday morning at 950 am. no they may isn t required for the pm has asked for a separate meeting with cabinet ministers. let s just look at a separate set of internal e mails, to show how that decision was reached. if we look at the next item, we see the same e mailfrom your member the next item, we see the same e mail from your member of staff. and then if we look up the page, claire brunton says that she assumes the answer is no again. and then we see the e mailfrom the answer
new york. welcome in to alex witt we reports . we begin at the top of the order following three breaking stories. an nbc exclusive that donald trump will be interviewed by a probation officer tomorrow. we have more on that in a moment. new details on israel hostage rescue on saturday. and then this just in. an benny gantz and his party resigning from the israeli war cabinet, a huge development. we have more on that in a moment. meanwhile, gaza s ministry of health says more than 270 sa palestinians were killed yesterday, 700 injured. israelis officials are disputing this number. new reaction to the number of on palestinians killed. civilians were killed. that is tragic. it is heartbreaking. i said before that the palestinian people are going through hell in this war. they are caught in the crossfire. hamas hides among civilian infrastructure, they ghhide underground.tu it puts the palestinian people t in harm s way. pe when we snatched the hostages, when we extracted
the election. mitch mcconnell is threatening to scorch the earth if democrats get rid of the filibuster. later i ll be joined by the perfect guest to discuss the intimidation tactics, harry reid. he has a lot to say about mitch. we begin with ron johnson continues to dig a hole for himself. he s doubling down on his experiment in making the quiet part really loud. last week when he said he would be more afraid if the violent insurrection on january 6th was led by black lives matter protesters. on january 6th, i never get threatened. i knew those were people that loved this country and truly respect law enforcement, would never do anything to break a law, and so i wasn t concerned. now, had the tables been turned, this could mean trouble. had the tables been turned and president trump won the election and those were tens of thousands of black lives matter and antifa protesters, i might have been concerned. it s no surprise that the remarks provoked justified accusations of