we can handle all 19 in 40 days. it s going to take four months, up to 150 witnesses. the fireworks are going to start going off. people don t want to go to prison. we heard from the most famous defendant, donald trump. will you testify in your own defense? that i look forward to. defendants rarely take the stand in real life. it would be a disaster. a brand new court filing investigating hunter biden reveals plans to indict the president s son on gun charges. he possessed a gun and filled out paperwork and falsified the document. it fuels what the republicans in congress are try ining to fa. the incredible video of an escaped killer scaling a brick wall. they have found footprints that he is in certain areas still. i haven t seen a manhunt that s lasted this long with so many sightings. you get this head coaching job and get diagnosed with k cancer. we circled up and said i want to share with you. were you scared telling them? i was. you have to
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
tonight. so what do those voters want to hear? consistently those who want to like donald trump say they want him to be more controlled, more on message. while those who want to like joe biden say they want him to prove his age is not an issue. are either one of them going to deliver? and what exactly does delivering look like? what exactly is the metric for a good performance on age or on personal control? let s try to figure that out. joining us from atlanta, vaughn hilliard and staff writer for the atlantic and msnbc political contributor vonn leibovich. vaughn, donald trump is coming up with expectation. he s not controlled. he s not polite and he interrupts and over talks, but this is a situation that will cut him off. his mike will be cut. you can probably still hear him if he keeps talking and his microphone will not be on and are we going to see a different donald trump tonight? this is going to be his 17th debate, katy. as you said, this is not new for him, and o
tomorrow night, to talk about a new book, pickle, and american faye against fascism. i ll see you there which stevens colbert tomorrow night, and i ll see you back here on monday. now it s time for the last word with the great lawrence o donnell, good evening, lawrence. stephen colbert is so lucky to have you, rachel. i know he knows that. so, ritual, coming up in the show tonight, i don t think you ll be surprised to know is senator sheldon whitehouse. , who will be addressing the age old question in washington, is something better than nothing? senator sheldon whitehouse, who certainly more than any other elected official, maybe more than anyone else in america pushed the court to be responsive in this totally unprecedented way, for all the shortcomings that they have done today, they had never before fognini through answer to their ethical failings before the american people and i think sheldon whitehouse indeed i state senate is the man who more than anyone, push them
outside the courthouse but, yesterday, the biden campaign held the surprise event there. i don t understand that. we will tell you who was there and dig into that campaign strategy. also ahead, the latest from gaza where israeli forces are moving into the city of rafah. it comes days after an israeli air strike ignited a deadly fire at a camp for displaced palestinians. let s dive in to our top story. after 21 days of heated testimony, the defense and the prosecution delivered closing arguments yesterday in donald trump s criminal hush money trial. nbc news laura jarrett has a recap. the first trial of an american president soon in the hands of seven men and five women. prosecutors closing their case arguing former president trump orchestrated a criminal conspiracy to influence the 2016 election to pull the wool over voter s eyes, they say, by ordering the payoff of stormy daniels and covering it all up. they tried to establish a pattern of mr. trump damaging stories