Thanks for having me. That is all in on this thursday night. Good evening, alex. Amazing, were talking about the word contraception as something thats being litigated in the United States of america. Were going to have more on that later on our show as well. Thank you, my friend. And thank you for joining me this hour. Today we got the news that Donald Trumps one criminal case, the one criminal case that was likely to go to trial before the november election, may be delayed. Manhattan District Attorney alvin brags Hush Money Case was set to go to trial on march 25th, less than two weeks from today, but now that date is in question. Now, trumps legal strategy in all of his cases has been to push them off as long as possible, preferably until the month of nevuary. But todays delay is not coming from trump, or at least not directly. Today d. A. Braggs office consented to a 30day delay in the start of trial, but not because d. A. Bragg needs another month. Theres a new trove of records tha
Looking live at 100 Centre Street here in downtown manhattan, where minute ago, donald trump made that. Now familiar with walk past cameras and into that courtroom where his future and maybe his freedom are on the line. Minutes a possible ruling from a judge on whether or not trump violence related a gag order. Again plus the next witness, the Prosecution Plans to use to convince a jury of mr. Trumps peers that he is a criminal. Im Kaitlan Collins in new york youre watching cnns special live coverage of Donald Trumps Hush Money Trial and i have jim acosta and washington. We begin week three of testimony with the question, who will go on . For oath as the prosecutions tenth witness . Manhattan prosecutors have sped through their presentation of facts of friday hit a dramatic high point when the government called Hope Hicks Stan next to the former White House Communications director, testified through tears, leaving an emotional impression that may pierce trumps defense. The jury has alr
Crossexamining the prosecutions first witness, former Tabloid Executive if david pecker, this is peckers third day on the stand and today for the very first time, he described the deal that he helped broker with Adult Film Star and director Stormy Daniels, a deal that is at the center of this case, the fusion has used packer to set the scene for the jury, introducing them to keep players in the case. How they all fit together in the story right now, the Defense Tactic in its early questioning is part of a strategy two, strategy to argue the David Pecker Is Work Helping Trump during the 2016 election was nothing new who . Nothing unusual. Also notably today, judge juan merchan so far still has declined to issue a ruling from tuesdays Hearing On Whether Trump has violated his gag order, despite the prosecution arguing that this morning that trump continues to violate this order against disparaging members of the jury and the witton this is of course this is four times over the last three
The people of new york versus donald j. Trump. I should be in florida now. I should be in a lot of different places campaigning, and im sitting here. For the first time in history, prosecutors lay out a criminal case against a former american president to a jury. This case is about a conspiracy to corrupt the 2016 president ial election. Tonight the Opening Statements from the prosecution and the defense. And the first witness takes the stand. We should be expecting a lot more of david Rachel Maddow was inside the courtroom to see it all. We got a real road map today as to how this case is going to go. As donald trump goes on trial. He seems old and tired and mad. Tonight Rachel Maddow, joy reid, chris hayes, Lawrence Odonnell, alex wagner, jen sake, stef knew rhule, katie pham, and nbc legal experts are all here. Special Coverage Of Trump On Trial begins now. Thank you for joining us tonight for this special Primetime Recap of the first ever criminal trial of a former u. S. President
Potential jurors. We expect the potential jurors to show up at the courthouse on tuesday when the potential jurors get there tuesday, theyll start filling out paperwork and answering questionnaires. Those will be the initial steps in the jury Selection Process for the manafort trial, but its interesting. Before the jurors go into court on tuesday, theres going to be one more hearing before the trial starts monday morning in judge elliss courtroom in virginia. This is the hearing that judge ellis delayed earlier this week. That raised a lot of eyebrows because judge ellis never delays anything so that raised intrigue about whether or not there might be some meaningful change going on in the Paul Manaforts case, considering a plea deal, it now appears that that is not whats going on. Again, according to a source close to the case, theres no signs of any sort of plea negotiations going on on the part of paul manafort, the Trump Campaign chairman. Well see the judge monday morning, hell ho