Mitt romney on our youtube page. Go to msnbc. Com stephanie. And guess what . We have a great lineup for the night cap. If you have a hot date and cant watch, youre in luck. You can catch it again on saturday at 11 00 p. M. Eastern right here on msnbc. And on that note, i wish you all a very good night. From all of our colleagues across the networks of nbc news, thanks for staying up late. Ill see you at the end of tomorrow. After another day of major testimony in Donald Trumps first criminal trial. Michael cohen, trumps former lawyer and fixer was back on the stand today. Facing crossexamination from Donald Trumps current lawyer todd blanche. For anyone who is counting mr. Cohen has been on the stand for more than 14 hours with more to come on monday. And nearly all day today, todd blanche tried to undermine mr. Cohens credibility as a witness. Blanche spent half the morning recalling different episodes when Michael Cohen lied publicly. Lied to congress. Lying in court. Lying about wh
While his own lawyer roasts him. Look, i get the defenses argument that you cant trust Michael Cohen because he hates donald trump, but, to be fair, everyone who has ever worked with donald trump hates donald trump. At some point, you have to be like, i think its trump. We also learned what the defense ordered for lunch today. 14 pizzas, four cheese, five pepperoni, four sausage and pepperoni, and one chicken, bacon, and ranch. No word yet on what trumps lawyers ordered. Boom, boom. Okay. Good morning. Welcome to morning joe. Willie, it is, today, officially, i have triple sourced this, friday. She did. Yes. We did it. Friday, may 17th, everybody. We made it. Welcome to morning joe. Along with joe, willie, and me, we have the host of Way Too Early, White House Bureau chief at politico, Jonathan Lemire. And Associate Editor, the great euGene Robinson. Jonathan lemire going to hang his American Flag upside down because the red sox lost last night. I did text that to you last night. It wa
new york times the reported in the shadow market of donald trump in 2021, and andrew weizmann spent years working in the department of justice, most recently serving as the lead prosecutor in robert mueller s special counsel office. they will join us now. michael, let me start with you, because you and can vogel of the new york times had a piece the reportedly published, again contemporaneously when this was going down. i think january 17th, 2021, so just a few days before the administration. the headline is the prospect of pardons in final days fuels market to buy access to trump. what did your reporting then surface about how this back channel to get pardons was functioning? what we found was that those who had access to the president, whether it was a lawyer like rudy giuliani, or another lawyer like john dowd, or others that simply had worked with him or knew him, trying to monetize their access to the
cia officer disclosing and i did told, that get, this rudy giuliani, and i quote, could help him secure a pardon for $2 million. nothing else, the allegations put forth in this lawsuit certainly seem to require some additional investigation. it seems to me, but what do i, know the justice department should be probing what s going down in the final days of the trump administration, particularly on the pardon subject. it is clearly, even by the standards of those four long years, a low point. michael schmidt is the washington correspondent of the new york times the reported in the shadow market of donald trump in 2021, and andrew weizmann spent years working in the department of justice, most recently serving as the lead prosecutor in robert mueller s special counsel office. they will join us now. michael, let me start with you, because you and can vogel of the new york times had a piece the reportedly published, again contemporaneously when this was going down. i think january 17th,
to russia. you re aware of the risks of going back? yes, but i m russian politician, and i would never give putin such a gift. reporter: on january 17th, 2021, he arrived in moscow and was immediately arrested. he s been behind bars ever since and has at least eight years of a jail term yet to serve. unable to see his wife, yulia, and children, dasha and zahar. even in prison, erin, navalny has refused to be silenced. he s been a very vocal critic of russia s invasion of ukraine. and just last week he put out a long thread on twitter basically saying he believes russia will be defeated in ukraine and outlining his vision for a post-war russia. and his family and his supporters are very much hoping that by keeping his story in the public eye, that might just