Welcome to the lead. Im jake tapper what were going to start today with our Law And Justice lead a stern warning for donald trump today from the bench. Keep violating your gag order and your Hush Money Cover of case, and you may well end up in jail. Judge juan merchan, Finding Today The Trump via lord, violated that gag order for the 10th time. He find a trump 1,000 which is the maximum penalty. But judge, where shine went on to tell the former president , quote, at the end of the de, i have a job to do and part of that job is to protect the dignity of the judicial system and compel respect as much as i do not want to impose a jail sanctioned and ive done everything i can to avoid doing so i want you to understand that i will if necessary, and appropriate, unquote. Today weve also heard testimony from two witnesses who went through check by check, the payments made by donald trump to his former attorney and fixer, Michael Cohen. Those payments are at the very heart of this case because
I give amazing spongebaths. Can i get a room . [ chuckling ] chefs kiss. Im ari melber signing off from this special hour. Keep right here on msnbc. I guess because donald trump does apparently whatever i tell him to do, he did not glare at me again in the courtroom today after i described Donald Trumps weird and childish and trumpian attempt to, i guess, intimidate me by throwing his angry glare at me when he was leaving the courtroom yesterday, i said right here on the program last night that it was a mistake for him to do that. I said that his apparently useless handyman who hangs out in the front row of the courtroom Boris Epshteyn should have told trump not to make a big deal out of that odonnell guy being in the courtroom yesterday. Donald trump shouldnt have given me that pleasure. He shouldnt have done that in such a goofy and public way that the New York Times felt to report it right away on the live update of the trial. No one in the courtroom had seen donald trump do anythin
Hello and welcome to our special, new york versus donald trump. Im ari melber. We have breakdowns on this riveting testimony. Including fridays moment for hope hicks. This is one of the weeks where prosecutors are putting together Stormy Daniels and Karen Mcdougalls lawyer, Keith Davidson. A damning story will come from Michael Cohen but theyve done it to confirm it for the jury before they hear from cohen. Corroborating all of that, with what weve told you about, the receipts, the checks, the contracts, and then ending this week with a rare view inside Donald Trumps upper most senior aides and brain trust. Longtime trump aide hope hicks taking the stand and bringing jurors into these meetings. As the access Hollywood Tape broke as trump and aides assessed its damage. Hope hicks you see there with donald trump. That is a coveted post in any campaign and especially in his, someone who is up on the stage and in his ear and on the plane. That is the role she had. So this was important tes
Im going back to the courtroom tomorrow. I will be back here tomorrow at 10 00 p. M. , on the last word, to report it all again tomorrow night. The 11th hour with Stephanie Ruhle starts now. Start tonight, dramatic moments in Donald Trumps Criminal Trial as his lawyers go after a key prosecution witness. What happened in the courtroom and why trump says he might not testify anymore. Plus, todays surprise speech from President Biden. What he said about the unrest on college campuses. And later, im talking to you, Robert De Niro. The legendary actor sounds the alarm about another trump term, as the 11th hour gets underway on this thursday night. Good evening once again. I am Stephanie Ruhle. We are 187 days away from the election and today Donald Trumps attorneys were on attack mode in his new york Criminal Trial. They went after key witness keith davidson, the lawyer who negotiated Hush Money Deals for Stormy Daniels and karen mcdougal, attacking his testimony and using him to go after
In madison where police in riot gear engaged in a standoff with demonstrators before Dismantling Tents that were part of a protest encampment. Police then clashed with protesters who numbered between 200 and 300 and arrested roughly three dozen, according to local reports. Then at Fordham University near New York City earlier this Evening Police wearing helmets and carrying batons arrested propalestinian demonstrators, placing them in zip ties as they took down an encampment inside a campus building. This is all, of course, part of a larger Protest Movement spreading across dozens of colleges. And while the demands of each individual protest vary, they are primarily focused on drawing attention to the Tens Of Thousands of Palestinian Civilians killed in gaza and calling for their colleges to financially divest from investments connected to israel. The protests have been followed by dozens of counterprotests, primarily in support of israel and against what these supporters call rising a