the capital in an attempt to o overturn the twenty twenty election results. for more , let s go to chief congressional correspondent chadress pergram. good afternoon. the committee aimed to tieye the riot to formerd president trump. the panel played new audioudpr and videotape of those close tof the president that included former attorney general bill barr who said there was no fraud in the election. y wyoming republican liz cheney invoked a painting in the capitol which shows president george washington resigning his military commission. p cheney says former president trump did all he could to stay in office with this noble act. washington sete the indispensible example of the peaceful transfer of power what president reagan called nothing less than a miracle the sacred obligation to defend this peaceful transfer of power has been honored by every american president except one . there was dramatic testimony from u.s. capitol police officer caroline edwards. she sustain
Welcome to the second hour of Chris Jansing reports live at msnbc headquarters in new york, and right now, about 115 minutes since the House Gavelled out for recess. No solution in the speaker stalemate, but just in the last 30 minutes, since we last spoke about this, a lot has changed and were getting a new glimpse into just how high tensions are Behind Closed Doors within the republican conference. Heres what happened. Moments ago, republican Congressman Matt Gaetz confirmed that former speaker Kevin Mccarthy yelled at him in that gop conference meeting. Passions are a little inflamed, i think hes working through the stages of grief. Did Congressman Lunge at you as well . I think he was pretty animated. I dont know if i would describe it as a lunge. I said having a speaker light is a bad idea. I think republicans ought to stay in the conference until we elect a speaker. I think we have a lot of great folks. Im supporting jim jordan. That will be how it goes. Okay. Kevin mccarthy, you
Received 150,000 in the leadup to the 2016 election as part of a catch and kill scheme with the national llenquirer to stay qui about her affair with donald trump. That means that Stormy Daniels testimony, the testimony that wrapped up today, will be the only testimony this jury hears that is directly from a woman accusing donald trump of trying to keepsi her quiet about an affair before the 2016 election. Now, there are lots of reasons why ms. Mcdougal might not want to testify, and there are lots of reasons why the prosecution might not want to call on her to testify. Were going to get some expert help unpacking all of that and what that a means for this casen just ar second. But Karen Mcdougal not testifying also makes the testimony we did get today from Stormy Daniels all it more important. And it makes the crossexamination of Stormy Daniels today, makes that all the more m important. Now, the defenses crossexamination today is probably most accurately described by a phrase i am lo
Crossexamination for Stormy Daniels, perhaps at the defendants behest whether or not it helped his case. And after the jury left to defense motions, one, to modify the gag order for that, mr. Trump is under to allow him to talk about Stormy Daniels the other asking for a mistrial for the second time this week judge, juan merchan denying the Gag Order Motion saying and i quote, your clients track record speaks for itself. He also denied the Mistrial Motion, which the defense had based on what it claimed was prejudicial testimony by Stormy Daniels about sex with mr. Trump. The judge said the defense brought it on themselves by denying a sexual encounter or had taken place meaning he said that the jury needed to be able to determine whether to believe her or the defense he also sculpted the defense for not objecting to items they were now citing as grounds for a mistrial. Prosecutors meantime, said they will not be calling the other woman who is alleging an affair with the former presiden
Line here and then over here is really for the press. And like i said, we might start seeing people within the next few hours because people are anticipating Michael Cohen to take the stand and i have to point out, we have actually met people from all across this bucks an hour for the line sitter. Hes a busy man. All right. Thank you so much im going to let your husband know your birthday present erik. Thanks so much to all of you for being with us. We appreciate it. Its time for anderson good evening. Welcome to our continuing special prompts on coverage of the trump at new york hush money trial. Dave, 14. So im prosecutors focused or a current bookkeeper and a former white house staffer on how closely their boss watched every dollar, including far smaller sums in his jackson Michael Cohen also de, two of crossexamine emanation for Stormy Daniels, perhaps at the defendants behest, whether or not it helped his case. And after the jury left to defense motions, one, to modify the gag ord