Us. Im ana cabrera along with jose diazbalart reporting from new york with our special coverage. Stormy daniels back on the stand this morning in Donald Trumps Hush Money Trial Facing Additional Cross Examination right now from trumps attorney about her allegation of a sexual encounter with trump and a subsequent coverup. Nbcs Yasmin Vossoughian is outside the courthouse, and here with us for the morning, charles coleman, civil rights attorney and msnbc legal analyst, and teb die owe agone da williams, former Senior Investigative council for the house january 6th commission. Take us inside that courtroom. Whats happening right now . Reporter already pretty contentious to say the least. It seems as if Stormy Daniels is much more prepared this morning than she was tuesday at the start of her testimony, especially when it came to Cross Examination with Susan Necheles. It seemed as if it was as contentious as it was the first goaround. Susan necheles asking repeatedly was this just about m
trying to help trump. but the president of the united states has no constitutional responsibility regarding federal elections. and remember, meadows, he tried to fight cooperating with the house january 6th commission. then jack smith had to actually invoke a grand jury subpoena and the threat of federal prosecution just to get that interview with meadows. so his testimony today was actually a little risky, even though this was just a preliminary hearing, prosecutors can use everything meadows said against him at trial. and here s the thing, joy. meadows, he s not even a particularly good witness for himself. his testimony today was basically, yes, the president of the united states did ask me to set up a call trying to overturn the election in georgia, but i don t remember a whole lot about the details. there was a lot of i don t know and i don t remember. so i m not sure that if this
this clark kind of thing working out, other investigations that were forced by the justice department for the fbi to look into this very strange georgia video at one point that the president is a said had people bringing suitcases of votes, and just how close we were to this actually working. so this this administration is focused on a lot of different things. but underlying every single thing is this. january 6th, the overturning of the election, the fact that trump is still out there spreading the lies. and that is something that someone at some point is going to have to really really deal with. that s what the investigations that are happening, the inspector general and also the house investigation is are going to look at and that at some point probably get to the bottom of and give us even starker picture. but whether or not there is punishment is a different conversation. ruth, let s talk about that, punishment or accountability. we have the senate judiciary, department of j