and the jurors have been sent to begin deliberations. the jury finally has the case. a former president now awaiting his fate in a criminal trial. tonight, the testimony the jury wants to hear from david pecker and michael cohen. why even getting to this point is a positive sign for the rule of law. it will be talked about in the history books. then, justice samuel alito warms up the bus. as soon as i saw the upside down american flag i asked my wife to take it down, but for several days she refused. congressman daniel goldman on the response to calls for recusal. chief justice roberts must step in and make sure that he does not have any role in deciding these cases. when all in starts now. good evening from new york, i am chris hayes. the criminal trial of donald trump was turned over to the jury today. 12 of trumps fellow new yorkers, i say that somewhat tongue-in-cheek, deliberated for four hours today before being dismissed for the day shortly befo
thank you for being back with us for our second hour of chris jansing reports. we start with breaking news. a moment of much needed hope right now for the families of the hundreds of hostages being held captive by hamas. israel says it has freed a female soldier during a ground operation. the idf says it s doing everything it can to release the others. but for those living in gaza, the military is doubling down on its calls for the civilians in the north to move south saying that warning is now, quote, urgent. where is safe to go? one 14-year-old pulled from the rubble told nbc news she had fled south to they are aunt s house and that the home was bombed while they were baking bread. she heartbreakingly told our nbc news crew, quote, i wish we can live safely like all children of the world. israel continues to pound gaza as tensions are mounting on the ground. with the united nations agency there saying thousands of palestinians, quote, broke into several u.n. rwa warehouse
this wednesday morning. morning joe starts right now. i think, you know, any patient that or elderly individual or someone who has dementia, they can find some moments of clarity, right? they can find moments throughout the day that they have energy and look. i think that trump s team should not underestimate joe biden and his team s ability to, you know whether they are going to jack him up on mountain dew or whatever it is, that, look. the state of the union this year he had a lot of energy for about an hour and/or an hour and a half, but it doesn t mean, you know, what we are seeing is, obviously, throughout the day, he can t carry that level of energy. what is so amazing about that, willie, is that that jacked up mountain dew did not come from some guy they picked up off the street, right? that was, like, rolling dice against the side of a wall or something. i m sitting there halfway going, who is this guy? he is an elected member of congress. sure. who is
and stamina versus a four timed indicted and lie able for sexual abuse and ex president and his meetings to business leaders reveal a candidate would is more erratic now than ever before, who appears to be in a race against himself to say and do the most incoherent and inexplicable thing. his spewing of lies and delusions presented a unique challenge to anyone trying to talk to him let alone challenge him on the stage and tv. trump is free from a gag order that held him back from smearing witnesses and jurors in the case that resulted in his first ever criminal conviction. hillary clinton, the only own person other than president joe biden who has taken trump on, on a debate stage, said this in a brand-new op-ed in the new york time. it is a waste of time to refute trump s arguments in a normal debate. it is impossible to identify what his arguments are. he started with nonsense and digressed into blather and this is only gotten worse but yet expectations for him is to low, i
so, have you watched the sopranoes? if not hit pause and go watch it and then come back in a couple of weeks and start this again. the first season is 13 episodes long. they obviously it s one of the greatest achievements in american drama. certainly in contention for one of the greatest television shows ever made in any country on any subject. in season 1 you have to get through like half the whole season i think you have to get to the 7th episode or something before you get anything that seems like it is a backstory on your lead character. so, i mean here is a story about a man in therapy, yes he is a gangster but is he a man in therapy. so you think, right from the very start of the very first episode you are going to get, you now, therapy speak. tell me about your childhood but it s not until seven episodes in to it that we finally see tony as a little kid. in that scene here is young tony, his uncle comes looking for his dad. tony s dad hops in a car and takes off wi