order including alvin bragg and his own family. that ruling came in an order last night following a filing from alvin bragg s office and in the wake of repeated attacks and ongoing ones by trump on the judge s daughter. the kind of stuff so completely nonsensical and baseless and out of bounds that most normal criminal defendants would not contemplate launching attacks like this. but donald trump is no ordinary criminal defendant, is he. next ex-president. with just two weeks to go before he goes on trial. he was intent on turning the proceedings into a circus. to benefit him politically, because he knows that winning the white house may be his only way out of his now many legal trev ails. the judge dismisses the claim that he s exercising his first amendment right to free speech when he charges the judge s daughter, and that is judge talk for a lie. this pattern after tacking family members of presiding jurists and attorneys assigned to his cases serves no legitimate purpose
welcome to the sunday show. i m jonathan. we are following breaking news out of iran. earlier today, a helicopter carrying iranian president crash landed in a mountainous region in the country s northwest north of order with azerbaijan. iran s for their foreign minister and other state officials were also on board. according to media reports, rescuers have had a hard time reaching the crash site due to poor weather and heavy fog in the area. at this hour, there is still no word on the president s condition. however, rescuers have reportedly pinpointed the location of the downed chopper and made contact with two of the passengers. joining me now, nbc news correspondent josh whose following developments on this story. life for us in london, josh, what s the latest on the rescue efforts? well, this is the early hours of the morning in iran and, jonathan, it is been nearly 12 hours since we believe that that plane went down and we still do not know i should say helicopter,
good day, everyone. i m andrea mitchell in new york alongside chris jansing for what could be the end of testimony in donald trump s criminal trial. michael cohen is on the stand for a second day of cross-examination. katy tur will join us in a moment. trump s attorney, todd blanche, is pressing the president s one-time loyal ally turned adversary. the defense highlighting the many times cohen admits he lied under oath. is he lying now? the only person who can counter much of what cohen is testifying about is donald trump himself. we are still waiting for a final decision on whether he will take the stand. with us in the studio, danny cevalos, catherine christian, and criminal defense attorney and former manhattan prosecutor jeremy sala. catherine, very low expectation that donald trump will take the stand. one of the things we are interested in, a 19-minute sidebar before michael cohen came in. we are waiting for the transcript, which should hit during these hours. there
you are watching our special extended coverage of the israel hamas war. new this morning, the u.s. embassy in israel is offering americans and immediate relatives evacuation by sea from haifa to cyprus. on monday, at 8 am local time, it is on a space limited basis. the embassy says chartered flights are also being arranged. meanwhile, the rafah crossing point between israel and gaza remains closed this morning as egyptian authorities continue negotiations with israel and the united states over allowing u.s. citizens to cross into egypt. the state department urges the more than 500 americans estimated to be in gaza to quickly move south as the window to cross will be brief. a second u.s. aircraft carrier is headed to the eastern mediterranean to help deter escalation in the region. it joins another carrier strike group that arrived earlier this week. and according to the israel defense forces, at least 1300 people have been killed in israel since the fighting began, wi
that they re defended. and that, again, this can t be allowed to continue. with regard to the second point, yes, this is something that we re very focused on. we want to make sure that no other country or entity tries to take advantage of the situation. the president s been very, very clear about that. he said very starkly that any state or nonstate actor considering that, don t do it. he s backed that up in a number of ways, including, as i mentioned the other day, deploying our largest aircraft carrier battle group to the area. so, that s clearly designed to help ensure that anyone contemplating getting engaged doesn t do it. but beyond that, a big part of my own conversations here throughout this trip, including today, following up the next couple days, is working with other countries to make sure they re using their own contacts, their own influence, their own relationship to make that case, that no one else would be taking this moment to create chaos in some other place.