Good morning. Its 11 00 a. M. Eastern, 8 00 a. M. Pacific. Im jose diazbalart. Testimony under way for day 12 of former president Donald Trumps new york Hush Money Trial. The jury hearing from former Trump Organization controller Jeffrey Mcconney who played a role in reimbursing Michael Cohen for the payment he made to Stormy Daniels. Just before testimony resumed, the judge fined trump another 1,000 for violating the partial gag order imposed on him. Thats in addition to the 9,000 he was fined last week for previous violations. The judge also warned trump directly, future violations could see him sent to jail, saying, quote, it appears that 1,000 fines are not serving as a deterrent. With us now to talk more about this msnbc National Correspondent Yasmin Vossoughian outside the courthouse in lower manhattan. Michael zeldan, special counsel to robert mueller, hes a professor at American University and David Aaronberg state attorney for california. Yasmin, its been an intense day in the
the gambling commission over a bet about the timing of the election. russell george who is a member of the welsh parliament has stepped back from his party s shadow cabinet and says he will co operate fully . wikileaks founderjulian assange leaves prison in britain and flies to an american territory in the pacific after reaching a plea deal with the us. he will not face further prison time after pleading guilty, and he will be free to return to australia, his home country. at least five people are shot dead in kenya as police crack down on protests against tax increases. the kenyan government has announced that the military have now been deployed. and a former fujitsu engineer who helped design the horizon it system tells the post office inquiry that he thought the software worked well, most of the time. garethjenkin gave evidence in the pivotal 2010 trial of seema misra, who was jailed while pregnant. the wikileaks founderjulian assange will land this hour in the us t
marcel was australia s hero. topping a group that included france too. netherlands will be in the last 16 as one of the best third placed teams. and the austrians leapfrogged kylian mbappe s france. mbappe was wearing a mask after injuring his nose earlier in the tournament and missing their last match. he scored a penalty. but bottom side poland won a spot kick of their own converted after a retake by robert levandowski so france have to make do with second in the group. it means they re now in the same side of the draw with portugal, germany and spain. the second group phase at the men s t20 world cup is already decided and what are story this is. afghanistan all rounder rashid khan says it is an unbelievable feeling to reach the semi finals for the first time in their history by beating bangladesh. and in doing so knocking out the 2021 champions australia. our sports correspondentjoe wilson has the story. on a rainy night in st vincent, afghanistan reached a new level.
Erin Burnett stays ahead of the headlines, delivering a show that is indepth and informative. Nice to have you all. John dean, let me begin with you. You heard the president out there try to defend himself today. Did he do himself any favors . Every time he opens his mouth he seems to conflict with a prior statement so i dont think he did himself any favors. They have not developed a Clear Strategy or approach or answer or response to any of this. And it is reminiscent of others in high places that got themselves in trouble. Some of them kept a better message than trump has. David, to you, the defense from the president again and again is, you know, the payments didnt come out of the campaign. He said and i quote, they being the payments, came from me. If what he said on fox is true, that statement, then at the very least he admitted to a payment that was not disclosed on the Financial Disclosure forms, which very well may be illegal, but how does the court of Public Opinion see it ton
post said to me today. whoever may have wanted to do this, we recognize that he s an important voice, not only for saudi arabia but for the region and for the entire world. and so if anything, all they ve done is just upped his professional. whoever has information, saudis, turks, the entire world is watching. the saudi arabian government he said was becoming unbearable. now you have press groups raising alarm bells. the community of protective journalists saying if this is true, this would be one of the most depraved crimes in my career. we heard from other groups as well saying this is a very disturbing situation. disturbing, brazen, our thoughts go out to his fiancée in what is an incredible mystery. coming up, is there progress