Washington, d. C. I am jen psaki. Chris hayes has the night off and will be back tomorrow night. Donald trump is back in court this morning for day 10, if you are counting, of his criminal trial. Todays proceedings began with another hearing on the ex president s repeated and i mean repeated violations of his gag order. We will talk about that later in the show for sure, but things really got interested once davidson returned to the stand today. He is the former lawyer for both of the women trump is accused of paying off. Karen mcdougal and Stormy Daniels. From the witness stand, davidson pulled back the curtain on a statement he wrote on behalf of daniels, seeming to deny her affair with trump. He admitted with trump sitting in front of him in the courtroom that the Stormy Daniels statement was designed to look like a denial. Basically a nondenial denial, you could say. The statement wrote i have recently became aware that certain news outlets are alleging i have a sexual or romantic
jackie ibanez joins us live with reaction. the smoking gun is brady s cell phone. he ordered to destroy it less than 24-hours before his meeting with reege investigator ted wells. that was in march. he was recycling his phone but didn t admit it was gone until june. on it thousands of text messages requested for the investigation. roger godell knew he was using under deflated balls in the championship game against the colts and tried to cover it up. in a statement goodell saying he went beyond a failure to cooperate in the investigation and supported a finding that he stopped to hide evidence of his own participation in the scheme. he has maintained his innocence since the beginning. i have a process need to do. i have no knowledge of anything. i have no knowledge of any wrong