hi, everyone. it s 4:00 here in new york. for about three minutes, a former president of the united states and current front runner for the republican presidential nomination was on the stand today. in case that seeks to hold him accountable for his words. that extraordinary courthouse moment today came on day four of ft defamation trial. donald trump testified in his defense. his attorney allowed to ask him only one question. do you standby your deposition? he said, 100%. he also added that he considers carroll s allegation false. that was stricken from the record immediately. that single question by his attorney is the result of a lengthy back and forth between the judge and trump s attorneys in which the judge warned trump not to relitigate the first trial in which he was found liable for sexually abusing carroll. there are no do overs. he ruled out the kind of statements trump has made outside of court. carroll s attorneys entered into evidence some of those statements in
over the last 45 minutes. nbc news confirmed the classified documents were discovered at former vice president mike pence s home in indiana. that s according to multiple letters from his attorney to the national archive. the latest on away we know about what was found. plus after a second massacre in three days, stuns california, with the toughest gun laws is left struggle thing for answers. they are not alone. sadly so far this year, the u.s. has seen 39 shootings. that s more than one for each day of the year so far. 120 children killed, 1,200 americans shot and killed and it s only january. a judge in georgia is hearing arguments about whether the public will be allowed to see the details of a seven-month investigation into former president trump s attempts to interfere with with the 2020 election results there. we are live at the courthouse. we do want the to start with the breaking news. a lawyer for former vice president mike pence discovered documents marked clas
going forward, and it s noting that the special counsel isn t technically up and running yet. this has a number of steps to go and is very much a live process. we learned yesterday you and kaitlan collins reported the chief of staff is going to be stepping down and going to be replaced by jeff zients. he s very well known in washington and also very well known in the building behind me. he was president biden s covid response coordinator when he first came into office when the pandemic was raging throughout the country. he was the co-chair of his transition team as well. before that he served in a number of high-ranking positions inside the obama administration. ron klain is obviously a powerful chief of staff and has his hands in everything that comes across the president s desk, across the administration. his departure is significant, someone who has known and worked with the president for decades and has been integral to the operations in the building. it was something
think you ll find at my house a bunch of chik phil lay bags on the floor. i don t know how this happened. we need to get to the bottom of it. i want to go back to kelly o donnell, who covers the white house with me these days. you spent years covering the hill as well. and classified documents, this is not shotgun that we have heard about being talked in the loosy goosy way as they are right now where they seem to be showing up all over the place. they were showing up after a search and then scattered on the ground by the fbi for their evidentiary pictures to be taken place. for president biden they were found in his garage, where he parks his corvette. now for the former vice president, mike pence, who said only a matter of weeks ago he didn t take any classified documents with him in an interview he did. now it s revealed he did have documents with him. this really changes the conversation a as senator graham says, to a national security one as much as anything else. reporter: ther
he and donald trump agree on that issue. reporter: they have a shared aversion for that prosecutorial method. is the trump team saying anything about this photo? reporter: very little. it took several days to get them to say anything. when they finally did, they just said that donald trump takes pictures with a lot of people and he can t be expected to know who all those people are. but, you know, there s a history and a problem with this with him having a lack of protective political infrastructure around him to prevent these kind of things from happening. they said back in november that they were going to put in place protocols to make it a little more difficult to get close to him. it s not enclclear that those protocols if they exist are being enforced. it does seem rather loosy-goosy. skinny joey merlino was convicted of racketeering in 2001. he skated on five murder and attempted murder charges despite the testimony of two people.