week of the historic and first- ever criminal trial of former president trump. this was a tough week. dramatic testimony from the woman at the center of the hush money plots. she has become the most famous through her encounter with donald trump. there was testimony and key days of testimony from witnesses who were in donald trump s orbit that could cooperate some of the financials for the jury. we have more on that. prosecutors have been laying out the pieces of this scheme to influence the 2016 election. we can tell you that as we recount why it was a tough week for trump, according to the public remarks here, working off the public evidence, we are at the end of it. we have two witnesses left according to the das team. michael cohen, will begin monday. one other witness and they will be ready to rest as soon as the coming week. michael cohen is central to the das case and has testified under oath that donald trump was in on everything. he knew about everything. everyth
times over the years, and every time he joined us, he helped us achieve our main goal, to get better and smarter. that was easy for him. ben white was the very best. i will forever be grateful for the knowledge he shared with us, bought more than anything, for his friendship. this is a hard and competitive business and having a friend in this business like ben was a gift and i will treasure our friendship forever. our condolences go out to his entire family and all those who are grateful to know and love him. thank you, ben. i will miss you and on that note, i wish you all a very safe and good night. from all of our colleagues across the networks at nbc news, thanks for staying up late. i will see you at the end of tomorrow. the republican party s presidential front runner was convicted by a jury of his peers on 34 felony counts. that is the reality. the republican party must now grapple with it. if they were into reality. so, that s an issue. what makes this all even more di
of conservatism, he is adopting trumps policy on immigration? i don t think it loses him and he votes on his left flank because the only issue on the campaign for half the country s donald trump and stopping donald trump and joe biden is the vehicle for that so i don t think he is going to lose the vote because he adopts trumpian border tactics. i think it s going to firm up his little middleground a little bit because it gives him something to say that i am taking steps on the border. i don t think it s going to lose him any votes. i think biden is so locked in now with almost half the country because they just don t want trump again. clear, what do you think on the executive order? i think it was the right thing for him to do. i think he did it because he thought he was going to get a bill and then he didn t.
Immigration and energy. I dont see any middleground anymore. As a democrat, as you look at this, what is going on from your perspective . Thanks for having me. You chime into sarah and others and listen to people. You were commenting while she was there that these are breadandbutter things. To gregs point on the show, our politics is broken. When politics is broken everything is broken. Borders, schools, workplaces are broken. Even places of worship. Millions of americans lives are in disrepair and broken. If you are a democrat tonight, if you dont extrapolate so much from an iowa republican coalition or caucus, what you do extrapolate is from what every day people are saying. You had parents in the diner. You had people who were older and younger. The last guy was interesting. He said we just wanted to work. We dont need you to solve everything but you cant pass a
different philosophical ideas and core principles. we have to arm wrestle over that and reach consensus to move the ball forward for the american people. that s what the system is based upon. right now people are going to their corners and refusing to talk. we need to get over that. how do we reconcile these issues? we claim alarmism or energy independence. how do you reconcile that? how do you reconcile defund and dismantle versus funding law enforcement and no bail laws versus bail laws? how do reconcile secure borders or sanctuary states or cities? very controversial issues. i don t know where the middle ground is. do you see it? there is less and less middleground over the decades that the parties have grown very far apart. there is a wide chasm. if you rewind back 40 or 50 years there wasn t a lot of difference between the republican and democratic parties if you compared the platforms. there were nuances but they believed in the same things. they were trying to do what is rig