Formally recognized a palestinian state. Deadline white house starts right now. Hi there, everyone. 22 witnesses, 21 days of court, 80 hours of Witness Testimony later, the firstever criminal trail of an expresident is coming to a close. The prosecution has one last chance to hammer home its case in close answer on tuesday, given that the defense put up just two witnesses, lasting four times longer than their entire presentation, only the manhattan d. A. Is wrestling with the about the Testimony Bombshell after bombshell over four weeks. Jurors listens intendly, as they testified about the confidential arrangement made with trump in 2015. Hope hick telling the about the infame owls Access Hollywood tape. Jurors also saw the handwritten notes that worked out the monthly reimbursements. Stormy daniels was questioned in detail about an rattled Sexual Encounter . Michael cohen it was, mr. Trumps former fixer turned foe Michael Cohen taken the stand. So, all the testimony and all of the evi
Hello, welcome to our special. New york versus donald trump. We have break downs on there entire rivetting week of testimony, including fridays emotional moments for a long time trump aide hope hicks on the stand. There is one of the weeks that show how prosecutors are proving up this case. Putting up Stormy Daniels and mcdougals lawyer. All leading up to a testimony by Michael Cohen. They have done this to confirm it before they hear from him and corroborating with that with the receipts, the checks, the contracts, and then, ending there week with a rare view inside of Donald Trumps uppermost senior aides and brain trust. Hope hicks brings us into the secret meetings and discussions as the access Hollywood Video broke. Hope hicks you see there with donald trump. That is a post in any campaign especially in his. Someone up on the stage n his ear and on the plane and that is the role she had. This was important testimony including the deals to silence these women. It matters because the
Happy monday, thanks, nicole, welcome to the beat, everyone. We are tracking a Major Development in this criminal trial of trump. The judge today going farther than ever, warning defendant donald trump that he can be jailed if there are more gag order violations. Let me show you exactly what happened. You may have heard about it, but were going to walk through it specifically. The judge telling trump today he can face a, quote, jail sanction. That is the big key part, which is why we put it in big letters. Jail sanction for Defendant Trump if he repeats these gag order violations. Judge merchan drawing a line and directly noting why this is a big deal with the repeated violations of the gag order. Other defendants have been jailed for less. You probably heard about that. But on the other hand, lets be clear, Defendant Trump has not been convicted in this case. And there are practical issues around the unprecedented prospect of jailing an expresident and current candidate for the white
4 00 in new york. As we kick off what will be the second week of Witness Testimony in donald j. Trumps Hush Money Trial. It is important to take stock and remind ourselves, it is not normal. To have an examerican President Stand Trial as a criminal defendant. It is not normal for that same criminal defendant to also be the Republican Partys current presumptive nominee for the upcoming president ial election. We learned a great deal from david pecker during his time on the Witness Stand last week about exactly how the catch and kill scheme that was used to benefit donald trump when he was running for president the first time worked. It worked by burying stories that would have been harmful to his reputation. We heard from trumps long Time Assistant rhona graf that Stormy Daniels and Karen Mcdougal, the women paid to keep their stories quiet ahead of the election, were both named in trumps rolla dex. So this week we expect to hear new evidence and new testimony from new witnesses further
Mcdougals story would have been National Enquirer gold, and his decision not to run it was purely to help donald trump. Joining me now, nbcs Vaughn Hillyard outside the courthouse, former federal prosecutor paul butler is back with me. Former assistant new York Attorney general Tristan Snell is in studio, and Jeremy Soland, criminal Defense Attorney and former manhattan prosecutor. Im going to start with you because youre a Defense Attorney and youre new to this table. Its a challenge, right, no matter how many times the defense keeps going back and back and back to david pecker, trying to show this wasnt about the campaign, which is what you did, this is standard operating procedure, they said that over and over and over again yesterday. Let me give you one of the later pieces of back and forth, and this is steinglass trying to, again, disprove that bove had just done, the Defense Attorney. How many, meaning of these stories, did you coordinate with a president ial candidate for the b