Up witness david pecker who is at times combative, and jurors largely avoiding looking at trump, but according to those inside the room, giving pecker their rapt attention. For a day filled with details and inside baseball legalese, no small feat. We have a panel of experts standing by to explain it all. Plus, nothing matters more than how the jury is interpreting the Witness Testimony weve seen so far. How are attorneys on both sides analyzing what jurors are taking away from the questioning. Well ask a Jury Consultant. And for the political stakes of this trial, the campaign. The former president announcing new Campaign Events when hes not in the courtroom while President Biden just made a promise that could have a major impact on novembers race. So a lot to get to. We begin with that Redirect Questioning of key witness david pecker, which began just a short time ago. Prosecutors jumping straight into rebutting some key threats from the defense. One key, for example, steinglass, is t
It is good to be back with you for this second hour. At this hour, is a former Tabloid Publisher the star witness in the people versus donald trump . What david pecker revealed about his close friendship with the former president and the catch and kill scheme before the hush money scandal exploded. Plus from the courtroom to a meeting with japan. Trump prepares to host another International Leader as the campaign tries to show theyre just doing business as usual. And standing by for a judges ruling. Will trump be held in contempt for violating a gag order . Well tell you what happened during a heated hearing this morning. And code name, plazic echo. What a newly unsealed document reveals about the documents case and a witness who warned trump to just give everything back. Our nbc News Reporters are following the latest developments. We begin outside the courthouse in Lower Manhattan with vaughn hillyard. Vaughn, david pecker was the only witness again today. He was questioned about con
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At we have the three percenters, a white militia. Swing back over here. On this zone, in the zone im in here you have black lives matter protesters and you have an armed, black left wing militia. So very different zones here in louisville. Obviously the police have put themselves between the two zones and it is completely separated from east to west. They are trying to keep these two groups separate for obvious reasons. The biggest concern here is that everybody has a gun. Everybody is armed nearly on both sides of what is an escalating situation. Youll see there are armed members of a black militia. This is that left wing black militia based out of the city of atlanta. We saw them first around july 4th. They have come out today here in louisville not just because of the death of breonna taylor, not just because of the death of david mcafee but bass we have these protests growing because we have these protests growing on both sides. The police hope theyll be able to keep the sides sepa