President say, 100 of first female black Vice President s. Its important what he has highlighted. It speaks to a concern that folks have about the support of hbcus, 16 billion is not cheap. Simone, thank you so very much. Its a pleasure to see you. Catch simone saturday and Sunday Morning at 8 00 a. M. Eastern as she cohosts the weekend right here on msnbc. Andrea mitchell picks up with more news next. Right now on Andrea Mitchell reports, President Biden trying to fire up lagging support from black voters, speaking at the National Museum for African American history on the anniversary of the Brown Versus Board Of Education decision and facing an uncertain reception when he delivers the Commencement Speech at moorehouse. Sparks fly between Marjorie Taylor greene and aoc. How dare you attack the physical appearance of another person. Oh, girl, baby girl. The trump Hush Money Case moves closer to Closing Arguments and going to the jury, how much impact will the showdown between Donald Tr
Talk to me about that moment when you realized that those cartridges had accidentally remained in your bag. In the airport. In russia. It was definitely a free fall. I literally saw my life flash before my eyes. I was like, its over. Bg is no more in that moment. I was afraid. Wnba star Brittney Griner in her first Cable Interview since her imprisonment in a russian penal colony. We talk about the fear, the politics, putin, and how her childhood prepared her for that harrowing ordeal. Also tonight, more damning testimony against donald trump in his Crimthal Trial in new york. This time from one of his companys accountants who allegedly helped reimburse Michael Cohen for Stormy Daniels hush money payment. Plus, a glimmer of hope that the end of the israel ghazi war could be near. Hamas announces it has accepted an egyptian qatari ceasefire proposal. How will israel respond . But we begin tonight with the age old adage, the coverup is worse than the crime. Today, in a new york city court
room. i ll see you bright and early tomorrow and around the world to a special report here in the situation room the trump trial today i m wolf blitzer were following breaking news, right now. the prosecution in donald trump s criminal trial is getting the last word before the judge sends the case to jurors who will decide the former president s faith prosecutor, joshua steinglass, pressing on with his marathon closing arguments trying to counter attacks. that a star witness, michael cohen made during the trump team s summation earlier today. cnn s kara scannell has been inside the courtroom all day. she s joining us now. she s outside qarrah bring us up to speed on this climactic moment in this truly historic trial what prosecutor joshua steinglass is now entering his third hour of these closing arguments in his focus right now is on the payments. this is the heart of the case. the repayment to michael cohen, and how it was booked in donald trump s company s books and re
it could potentially have also involved donald trump at least according to prosecutors so they in their closing arguments address what they called statements made by their defense about closing arguments and testimony the defense tried to elicit as to the personal knowledge of the former president about these payment schemes. the alleged payment schemes for which the trump organization and two subsidiaies are charged with, specifically that the trump organization had some sort of a benefit. that s really the key line here, chris, that there was some benefit the trump organization received by not having to pay additional salaries, something called grossing up in order for these executives including allen weisselberg who pleaded guilty to pay the taxes they needed to pay on those particular benefits. we re talking luxury cars, mercedes benz, a luxury apartment overlooking the hudson in new york city and tuition to grandchildren. that s been kind of the key focus looking at weisselberg no
lawyers for the trump org tried to hold up proceedings r if a second straight day, including a last-minute attempt to have a mistrial declared, drawing the ire of the judge. let s bring in nbc news investigations correspondent who was there for all of it, my colleague, tom winter. take us inside the courtroom. reporter: right, nicole, so as we telegraphed yesterday, prosecutors got into this idea of kind of grossing up. effectively, the trump organization would have had to almost double the salary paid to its top executives, we re talking about allen weisselberg, matthew calamari and some of the others in order to compensate them if they were to have to pay taxes on the benefits they received. we re talking luxury mercedes cars, apartment in the case of allen weisselberg, even tuition for weisselberg s grandchildren. we ve known about this for some time, but they really tried to focus and target their argument in presenting a chart for the jurors and kind of hypothetical numbers just