election for her alleged sexual encounter with donald trump. nbc news reports a dozen members of the public have lined up and are continuing to do so even in the rain to get a seat for the historic moment. closing arguments will be both the prosecution and the defense final chance to weave the evidence into the narrative of their case. in new york, the defense goes first. arguing that the prosecution has failed to prove beyond a reasonable doubt that john donald trump committed a crime with the intent to influence the 2016 election then the prosecution will recap its case. tying together testimony from is 20 witnesses and the evidence, including documents with handwritten notes accounting for just how the hush money payment was to be reimbursed to michael cohen, who testified that he did it at the direction of and for the benefit of donald trump. closing arguments are expected to take up most, if not the entire day tomorrow. which will be followed by the judge giving the ju
confidence. the court, which still has decisions on a dozen argued cases yet to be announced this term. today inadvertently posted online a document related to an abortion case which was obtained by bloomberg law. a supreme court spokesperson confirmed that the document was, quote, inadvertently and briefly up loaded but noted that the ruling has not been release and would be in due course. nbc news has not independently verified the document. it is not known if it is a draft decision, the actual decision, or neither of those things. the document has since been removed from the website. well if the document did signal was that court appears set to allow emergency room doctors in the state of idaho to perform life-saving abortions which they are unable to do under that state s defensive life act. that passed in august of 2022. the law is one of the most extreme abortion bans in the country. it prohibits nearly all abortions and does not allow for exceptions for the life of the
A Kenyan University where alshabab killed nearly 150 students reopens amid tight security. North korea says it has detonated a Hydrogen Bomb. The u. N. Body which monitors Nuclear Testing has described it as a grave threat to peace. An emergency has been called of the u. N. Security council. Now, this test was announced on north korean television. Translation we will not give up a Nuclear Program as long as u. S. Man obtains its stance of aggression adrian brown is in beijing and has this report reporter a short time ago the Foreign Ministry here in beijing gave a briefing to foreign news journalists and it was quite interesting, the rebuke they issued to north korea was actually quite mild. They anticipated to north korea to assess its provocative action and urged north korea to return to the sixparty talks. Now, china, of course, is about the only friend that north korea has right now. They have, in the past been idea logical allies, but there have been deep strains in that relations
At Mount Rushmore. No masks were worn or few, if anything, in a tightly packed crowd. Nbcs monica alba is at the white house. Monica, what more can you tell us about this . Yeah, this will be the fist real test of a large event at the white house, joshua, that weve seen since the start of the pandemic. Of course, the president has gathered with thousands of his supporters in placine s like tulsa, oklahoma. He spoke at this a indoor chuat in phoenix, arizona. We havent seen him speak to a large group of people at the complex itself since before march. The white house is expecting a pretty large crowd, some who are front line workers whosk dealing with the pandemic. There will be nurses, doctors, Law Enforcement represented in addition to members of the administration who will gather for this salute to america where masks will be deliberated but wont be required and where social distancing will be encouraged but not necessarily a requirement. Weve seen some chairs that are spaced out. Th
Have very little to do with the negotiating of that hardfought bipartisan bill, now says he wants bigger stimulus checks, 2,000 per person instead of 600. And some of the president s Biggest Senate allies are backing him this morning. Meanwhile, Top Democrats say they wanted bigger checks all along. We heard from spoker pelosi moments ago saying theyre red i do bring this to the floor possibly tomorrow, christmas eve. Pelosi saying, quote, lets do it. The last minute injection of chaos coming as the president goes on a pardoning spree of friends, associates, even convicted killers. It includes two caught lying in the mueller russia investigation. Also, get out of jail cards to a pair of disgraced former House Republicans who were the first to endorse then candidate trump. Kelly odonnell is at her post at the white house. We eerts also joined by our justice correspondent Pete Williams in washington, d. C. Kelly o. , lets start with you there at 1600 pennsylvania. That video put out by t