Treated to a show. Experts say the solar storm is no threat to humans. As for the dazzling displays there is still a small chance you might be able to see them tonight. Your best odds for viewing is to get far away from the city lights. Congresswoman Jasmine Crockett joins me in just a few minutes to talk about the Biden Administrations approach to israel. Plus, she is documenting it, telling me the story without words. One of the Trump Trial Sketch Artist will join me to tell me what she is seeing and thinking as history plays out before her in this hour starting right now. T now. A very good day, welcome, everyone. We are on the brink of history in less than 24 hours. Michael cohen will take the stand in a manhattan courthouse. Transformer fixer is expected to testify how he fronted a big payment to Stormy Daniels to keep her quiet about the alleged affair with trump ahead of the election. Im kind of looking forward to it. You can be finished with something unless you start it. If th
Good day, everyone. Im Andrea Mitchell in new york along with my colleague and friend, Chris Jansing, as history is being made in that Lower Manhattan courtroom. Donald trump is the first former president of the United States to stand as a defendant in a criminal trial. At any moment, could be facing the first witness to testify against him. Thats expected to be former National Enquirer publisher, david pecker. Hes likely to be pressed about alleged efforts to bury damaging stories about donald trump during the 2016 election. Earlier this morning, prosecutors gave their open statement, accusing mr. Trump of a criminal conspiracy to hide embarrassing relationships by preventing them from getting into the press, thus influencing the outcome of the 2016 election then covering it all up. The defense followed saying that mr. Trump did not commit any crimes, describing him as not just the republican nominee, but as the frugal business man, also a husband and a father. Defense lawyer todd bla
12 new yorkers have affirmed the principle that no one in america, not even a former president, is above the law. a jury unanimously found donald trump guilty on 34 felony counts of falsifying business records. the criminal case hinged on the testimony and evidence of the trials narrator, trumps fixer turned foe, michael cohen. he joins us here now. he is the author of disloyal, the true story of a former personal attorney to president donald j trump and how trump weaponized the u.s. department of justice against his critics. is also the host of the mea pope and political podcast. i am so busy. i want to get some context here. when this all began for you in many respects, at that time trump is in the white house, you had gotten caught up in this thing on your way to prison , how, having this, full-circle and watching what occurred this week, do you appreciate that role? that narration? i thought it was very interesting and important for you to frame this chapter in this c
those counts stem from a salacious hush money payment to an adult film star and the cover-up coordinated between trump, his former attorney michael cohen and head of the national inquirer, david pecker. this case was about a conspiracy to interfere in the 2016 election. we knew nothing about that until after the election was over thanks to some enterprising reporting from the wall street journal but prosecutors were reluctant to bring charges for some time. for years, this case against trump had effectively laid dormant. after six years of waiting and six years of trial and two years of deliberation, the jury of 12 ordinary americans found donald trump guilty on all 34 counts this afternoon. trump s fate is now in the hands of the judge, one mershon, who is scheduled a sentencing hearing for july 11th which is just four days before the republican national convention and while most experts agree prison time is unlikely, it s possible. trump is expected to hold a press conferen
credit one of the witnesses, let s discredit the narrator. there are 19 other people that were called by the manhattan district attorney prosecutors like susan often stir, josh stein glass, obviously alvin bragg leading the charge, 19 people testified which all corroborated, again, the narrative of my story, what i had been saying for six years. corroborated by 19 independent people, who by the way work for trump and still remain loyal to him. is that your instinct that donald trump was calling the shots and such as go after cohen? combination of both. guaranteed it is all predicated around donald trump calling the shots. i have seen him do it going back to 2007 when i started working for him. he calls the shots, it is the