Right now on Andrea Mitchell reports, crossing the line. The judge in Donald Trumps Hush Money Trial Admonishing the former president s legal team during a hearing today to determine whether mr. Trump repeatedly violated a gag order when attacking witnesses and jurors. The judge has not yet ruled on whether to fine the former president as prosecutors are requesting. Plus, back on the stand. The first witness answering more questions today as prosecutors try to establish the timeline of what they call Donald Trumps orchestrated Criminal Scheme to turn the 2016 election. How mr. Trump is reacting while sitting just feet away. And the u. S. Supreme court preparing to hear mr. Trumps claims of president ial immunity. Retired Justice Stephen breyer joins me on his new book Reading The Constitution as well as the conflicting legal philosophies now dividing the court. Good day, everyone. Im Andrea Mitchell in washington. At the Hush Money Trial in new york today, judge juan merchan coming dow
Tonight, the Opening Statements from the prosecution and the defense. The first witness takes the stand. We should be expecting more of david Rachel Maddow was in the courtroom to see it all. We got a road map to how the case will go. As donald trump goes on trial. He seems old and tired and mad. Tonight, Rachel Maddow , joy reid, chris hayes, Lawrence Odonnell, alex wagner, jen psaki, stephanie ruhle, and legal experts are all here. Special Coverage Of Trump On Trial begins now. Thank you for joining us for this special prime time recap of the first ever criminal trial of a former u. S. President. The first ever criminal trial of a major partys presumptive nominee is a candidate for president. I am Rachel Maddow at Msnbc Headquarters along with Lawrence Odonnell and chris hayes and jen psaki. We will be joined by joy reid and alex wagner and stephanie ruhle. Are legal experts Andrew Weissmann and catherine will keep us on the straight and narrow. Lisa ruben is here and Susanne Craig w
68yearold woman attacked on the steps of her church on the way to mass, yeah. Thats america tonight. Well, her nephew will join us with an update. Plus, senator marco rubio is here on bidens smear and fear campaign. But, first, Kicking Sonia to the curb. Thats the focus of tonights angle. Now, there was some nugget that got lost last week in the new gallup poll that are key to the 2024 campaign. In the president ial character and abilities categories, biden is losing ground big time. Check this out. He is down nine on likability. Wow. And is he down, down 9 on whether he displays the democral as the cucumber, oh, the stories say oh, were confident and focused. There seems to be some Contingency Planning underway. The party that prides itself for being prowomen and, of course, they are all champions of diversity, is giving the first latina on the Supreme Court, Justice Sonia sotomayor the bumps rush. As usual, ideas are advanced by liberal senators and then by pressure gas. Republicans
at this hour, president zelenskyy is in washington pushing for critical aid for his country s existential fight against russia. his visit capped off by a meeting at the white house with president biden. in a few minutes the two leaders will hold a press conference. we ll bring you that live when it happens. we begin with a stunning revelation by the special counsel jack smith in the federal election interference trial. for the first time, the special counsel s office says it has data from donald trump s cellphone, and they plan to show how trump used his phone in the days and weeks after the election, including on january 6th. in a court filing last night previewing expert testimony, the prosecutors plan to bring to the case, jack smith says he plans to call to the stand an expert who extracted and reviewed data from trump s phone and the phone of another individual who s currently unidentified. special counsel said the expert will, quote, testify that he or she analyzed da
suing after a report highlighting anti-semitic content on the site sparked a devastating advertiser exodus. now, unfortunately, a severe storm system could come at the worst possible time. what you need to know. coming up, i m kate baldwin with omar jimenez. this is cnn news central. it is very close. that s the word from a u.s. official to cnn, and the word also now from two israeli sources, a hostage deal could be announced as soon as today. there seems to be a lot of moving parts and a lot of things happening at one. listen to the latest and urgent painstaking work to get the hostages released. innocent victims were kidnapped on october 7th. here s what john kirby said. obviously we are laser focused on the american citizens we know are being held hostage. everybody should be out now, but here we are in negotiation, and we re getting closer to the end, we believe, of that negotiation, so again, i m going to be careful. the israeli prime minister s office just annou