Mary trump gets tonights last word. Tonight Opening Statements in Donald Trumps first criminal trial. What happened today in court and why prosecutors say he orchestrated a Scheme To Corrupt the 2016 Election Plus what is next for Speaker Johnson, now that the house has passed aid for ukraine. Then we are days away from Supreme Court arguments on trumps Immunity Claim. Retired Military Leaders are warning, this case is about National Security. Three of them are here at the 11th hour gets underway on this oneday night. Here we go. Good evening once again. We are now 197 days away from the election. But we are not talking about the election today, Opening Statements got underway in Donald Trumps first criminal trial. The former president was forced to sit in silence as lawyers from the Manhattan District Attorneys Office alleged he and his allies were part of a conspiracy to influence the 2016 election. The goal, to bury negative stories about trump so voters would never see them. Trumps
It is good to be back with you for this second hour. At this hour, is a former Tabloid Publisher the star witness in the people versus donald trump . What david pecker revealed about his close friendship with the former president and the catch and kill scheme before the hush money scandal exploded. Plus from the courtroom to a meeting with japan. Trump prepares to host another International Leader as the campaign tries to show theyre just doing business as usual. And standing by for a judges ruling. Will trump be held in contempt for violating a gag order . Well tell you what happened during a heated hearing this morning. And code name, plazic echo. What a newly unsealed document reveals about the documents case and a witness who warned trump to just give everything back. Our nbc News Reporters are following the latest developments. We begin outside the courthouse in Lower Manhattan with vaughn hillyard. Vaughn, david pecker was the only witness again today. He was questioned about con
Opening statements begin on monday. And according to the judge, quote, this trial is starting. So long we have been using the word erosion on trumps institutions and americas faith in them f. This weeks spectacle showed us any, the term erosion the flow of water, slow and steady, might be under stating the immediate danger. We should think of the harm done to the structure of our democracy like a tidal wave, Flash Flooding possible. Try as we might to board up the windows to be kept from being swept away there is damage more and more every second. Some jurors so frightened or intimidated from doing their basic civic duty that some were moved to tears in the courthouse as they were today for fear of retaliation. You can see it in the way the disgraced president lies in the case and the way everyone is in if. He conditioned his followers to Distrust Anything and everything outside the sealed mega bubble. The Executive Director of protect democracy described it to us like this. I think pe
deeply rattled and rethinking the ticket or rallying behind the president. robert garcia on where his ro party goes from here after president joe biden s debate flops . on his last day of prid we take you to stone will house in new york which exemplifies the need to keep lgbtq elder say. i am sam stein, let s do it! the debate is the debate is not the only big event shaking up the presidential campaign season, tomorrow is another high-stakes day after months of waiting, we will find out whether trump can be held accountable for attempting to subvert the 2020 election when the court releases presidential immunity. it could have immense reverberations, not just on the race, the future of ■çthis country. to say it s taken a while to get here, that is an understatement, supreme court has shown us multiple times that it has the ability to efficiently handle decisions in importing cases that affect presidency, 50 years ago, the court moved quickly in the watergate tapes case han
fiery speech to follow up a debate that many democrats called a disaster. can his direct attacks now on donald trump quiet the talk about his future on the ticket? plus, what the polling reveals about the democratic names floated to take his spot. our steve kornacki is standing by with the numbers. and the debate question that donald trump did not want to answer, his response when asked if he would accept the results of the next election. the supreme court siding with a january 6th rioters, that could upend cases, including one against former president trump. our nbc news reporters are following all of the latest developments. we begin in battleground, north carolina, where president biden s demeanor was completely different than the debate stage last night. nbc s mike memoli is reporting from raleigh. the president, he sounds rearing for a fight. reporter: yeah, that s right, chris. i mean, we started this debate series of events with a lot of people wondering whethe