get rough, but the white house won t paint that bleak picture tonight. instead, the president is making a bet that many democrats before him have made. go high when they go low. think unity. a traditional victory lap touting his administrative wins over a tough two years. emphasizing that democrats and republicans can get things done together. it s what the country wants, a senior white house official told me. so where does he go from here? what bipartisan deal with the white house working on next and what will the white house do with the investigations and allegations that house republicans are throwing at him? we re going to ask the president s senior adviser that question in a moment. we ll also get the realistic outlook from capitol hill and what house republicans are willing to make a deal on. so joining me now is nbc news senior white house correspondent, kelly o donnell. nbc news capitol hill correspondent, ryan nobles, and washington post senior national political c
Welcome to our new special. New york versus donald trump. Im ari melber here. We will bring you this brand new break down of the third week of the historic and first ever criminal trial of a former president and a current candidate as well. This was a tough week for the defendant that was gripping dramatic testimony from the woman at the center of the hush money plot of all the witnesses we have seen, she has become the most famous through her encounter with trump. And there was testimony and key days of testimony for witnesses who were in trumps orbit who could speak about what she said and corroborate some of the financials. For the jury, we have more on that as well. Prosecutors have been laying out the pieces of this scheme to influence the 2016 election and we can tell you as we recount why it was such a tough week for trump, we also know according to the public remarks here, we know we are near the end of this thing. We have two witnesses left. The star witness Michael Cohen will
Was, i think, shortly after it was publishing a piece about ben carson. I overheard a Conversation Congratulating him on the great reporting. It was about medical malpractice. There is the direct link between what hope hicks heard, not what she thinks she heard, but what she heard and pecker and trump. Thank you so very much. That wraps up the hour for me. Thank you for the privilege of your time. Andrea mitchell picks up with more news right now. Good day, everyone. Im Andrea Mitchell in new york. The trump trial is underway. Right now, the former president s close aide, trusted advisor and former White House Communications director, hope hicks is on the stand. She no longer has an official role in trump world. Has testified to the january 6th house select committee. But hicks was by trumps side throughout his 2016 campaign and for a time when he was serving as president. She potentially has a firsthand account of the alleged crimes her former boss is now charged with. We begin with P
David jollys over here selling books, too. I just bought my copy. Its got a bestseller icon next to it so well add that, too. Its a bestseller. So go get it if you dont have it yet. My thanks to everyone who was here for the hour. Karine, ben, david, ron. Most of all, to you for watching. That does it for our hour. Mtp daily with the Fabulous Katy Tur In For Chuck starts now. Welcome to monday. Its meet the press daily. Good evening. Im katy tur into new york in for chuck todd. The houses Impeachment Inquiry is accelerating as attempts to defend the president seem to be growing more extreme. After weeks of denying a quid pro quo with ukraine, President Trump and some Senate Republicans are now trying to justify one. Perhaps, a sign of just how much evidence a piling up and how far
republicans are willing to go to defend the president. Today, we got even more evidence. House investigators have begun releasing transcripts of their depositions, both paving the way for public hearings and
charged, they could not be federally pardoned. so there is more pressure on them to cooperate because of these charges than at the federal level. and then the final point, nicolle, which may sound a little out of left field, is bail. now we have seen the former president get bail in manhattan, in florida, and in d.c. we have also seen the former president continue to make statements that at least arguably are obstruction of justice or intimidating witnesses. why is that important? because in georgia, the statute that may apply here depending on what is charged is one where the presumption is one that the defendant has the burden of rebutting. and in other words it is on the the defendant to show that he will not commit crimes and not a