thank you, jodi kantor for doing it, and thank you for coming on tonight. thanks for having me. that is all in for this week. alex wagner tonight starts right now. good evening, alex. t starts that story is phenol and deeply distressing. we all know how it ends, of course, which is the overturning of roe v. wade in the dobbs decision. nonetheless we will walk through this in this in the same details that seem deeply the the word feels like they re deceiving the public so that it cannot look like yet, we re waiting around for her to die, now we ve got a person, let s go do it. that feels one of sam elite owes former law clerk s argues case in front of him? a lot of red flags. we re gonna have more on the hour with the other reporter on that story. have a great weekend. today rudy giuliani finally got a taste of accountability. jurors in the defamation case against giuliani awarded former fulton county election workers ruby freeman and shaye moss a staggering $1
hosted by alex witt will start at 5:00 a.m. eastern. that is going to do it for me. deadline white house begins right now. hi there, everyone. happy friday. it s 4:00 in new york. donald trump s once loyal attorney general bill barr recently said that the classified documents probe was the most threatening to trump, and brand new reporting in the new york times reveals why that may be the case. new york times out with some blockbuster new reporting that shows that special counsel jack smith is leaving no stone unturned in his pursuit of answers to questions about trump s conduct. namely, whether he sought to obstruct efforts by the government to get back classified documents. some of which contained incredibly sensitive national security secrets. from that new times story, quote, federal prosecutors investigating former president trump s handling of classified documents have obtained the confidential cooperation of a person who has worked for him at mar-a-lago. it
carefully studied china s peace plan for ukraine. we ll talk with congressman henry cuellar, and we will ask him with the hours long meeting with the president of mexico. and a teacher shot by a student is speaking out in an msnbc exclusive. i will never look at the look on his face as he pointed the gun directly at me. we begin this very busy hour with new developments in the high profile manhattan grand jury investigation of a hush money payment made from trump to stormy daniels. a new witness spoke to the grand jury on monday and accused former trump lawyer and fixer, michael cohen, of acting alone and making the $130,000 payment to daniels back in 2016. former legal adviser to cohen, costello, testified for over two hours yesterday and slammed cohen. if they want to go after donald trump and have solid evidence, so be it, but michael cohen is far from solid evidence. here on msnbc, cohen responded to costello s comments and defended his testimony. the beauty t
years of precedent and overturn roe versus wade, it was far from the final battle on either side over access to abortion health care in america. among independent voters, democratic voters and large numbers of republican voters, it s been a political spark that continues to jolt and potentially reshape our politics the power of the courts assault on a right supported by a majority of all americans is only exacerbated by the right s ongoing assault on access to reproductive health care the gop s war on women s reproductive freedom reached a new crescendo on friday night in the form of a ruling from a right-wing federal judge who was hand picked to make a decision that would further eliminate access to reproductive health care judge matthew kacsmaryk ordered the 23-year long fda approval of a drug called mifepristone be put on hold in every single state. it s one half of the two-drug regimen used in medication abortions. he gave the government seven days to appeal his ruling w
the indictment is sealed, but just last hour nbc confirmed from two sources familiar with the matter that they are about 30 counts of document-related fraud charges in that indictment trump s attorney says he s expected to be arraigned on tuesday, and one of trump s lawyers told nbc s today show earlier today that trump will voluntarily surrender to authority. he s not going to hole up in mar-a-lago he ll face this, and we ll face it, and we ll be successful i m sure president trump will not take a plea deal in this case it s not going to happen there s no crime with us now to talk more about all of this, nbc news correspondent garrett haake, our chief investigative reporter for wnbc and our nbc news chief justice contributor, and maya wiley, a former u.s. attorney and now president of the leadership conference on civil and human rights jonathan, you actually broke the news for us about 30 counts in this trump indictment. what do you know well, we know it relates to d