Right today at you core. Com im laura coates alongside abby, phillip, and our panel here in Washington For A Special Edition this in im laura codes live and were at the end of a very long week in the trump Hush Money Trial. Court is actually dark on monday, but theyll get what gland again on Tuesday Morning at 9 30. So just what exactly will juror is take away from what they heard in court today. And when they need to be thinking about over their long weekend while there were three witnesses, it took the stand today. It had david pecker who wrapped up more than ten hours or testimony over a period of four days, he was as also trumps former longtime assistant, rhona graff, who was only on the stand for what, a half an hour, then Michael Cohens former banker, gary farro, who is likely to continue testifying this coming tuesday the prosecution wants jurist remember, peckers testimony that his intention was to never publish Karen Mcdougal story of an alleged affair with trump from the tran
Week . Its not. Its only wednesday. Its 4 00 in new york. We have had two days of testimony in the first criminal trial of an american expresident. We have learned so much. We have heard extraordinary details of a conspiracy to interfere in a president ial election. The prosecutions first witness, former National Enquirer ceo david pecker painted a vivid picture of that explicit agreement between himself and the expresident , one of mutual benefit. Negative stories about donald trump are bought and buried and negative stories about trumps rivals were embellished or in some instances fabricated. Stories of women having affairs with trump were hidden. Fake stories with hillary clinton, ted cruz, marco rubio were written up and published. Photos were doctored, like this one, amounting to a phenomenon Andrew Weissmann referred to as ground zero of fake news. David pecker comes back for more tomorrow. Court is quiet today. It resumes today. He takes the stand tomorrow. Likely picking back u
Brendan buck, thank you, as always. Thank you so you for getting up Way Too Early on this thursday morning. Morning joe starts right now. Thank you. May i finish. You cant be on both sides. Gentlemen, youll have your turn. One of the challenges listen up. Can we focus on the issues that matter . We know in china, Everybody Knows that. If i may focus on Holding Joe Biden accountable. I agree with ron desantis. Everybody is speaking at the same time. If you couldnt understand any of that, you were not alone. The republican candidates on stage at the Ronald Reagan president ial library last night, mostly focused on attacking each other rather than the frontrunner in the polls, donald trump. Talking over each other a lot. Trump was, instead, on stage by himself in michigan speaking to a crowd of mostly nonUnion Auto Workers, and criticizing the strike against detroits big three. Thats a tight shot there. Meanwhile, in washington, it appears the farright republicans in the house are ready t
were very productive. i thank you for the bipartisan support. as we approach christmas on behalf of all our ukraine families separated by war and all sons and daughters on the front, ukraine s greatest wish is to reach a victorious end. it s mr zelensky s third visit to washington since the war began and second in just the past few months. the aid he s seeking could turn the tide against russia as the war ticks closer to its second year, with no sign of resolution. congress has approved more than $111 billion in total since the war began. but the biden administration says that money is running out. mr biden told reporters after his meeting with zelensky, that it would be a, christmas gift to russia s vladimir putin if congress fails to pass fresh aid. putin is banking on the united states failing to deliver for ukraine. we must, must, must prove him wrong. i will not walk away from ukraine. neither will the american people. president biden also said russia state media is ce
lawyers who led that case were in d.c. for a meet and greet with their client. before they walked into the oval office, they were told do not give him false hope, do not indulge the conspiracies about the election. some of them listened, some of them didn t. here is a clip from ken chesebro what the lead attorney in wisconsin told donald trump. it is clear that troops personally told the president there was zero hope in wisconsin. as part of this message, i think trying to get him to concede, give up this long shot challenge. so there was a conscious effort to deflect him from a sense of any possibility that he could pull out the election. zero hope. that s what he said. so, look, some people around trump told him that he couldn t win and he tried ty eied to ovee election any way. that s a part of the criminal case. that indictment is filled to the brim with examples of trump being told that he lost. this oval office meeting was not in the indictment, so it builds on the