committee dropping a brand-new batch of key testimony and for the first time we are now seeing interview transcripts from 19 additional witnesses and they include some of the closest people inside former president trump s inner circle. his son, donald trump jr., former fox news anchor kirsten gillibrand as w kimberly guile so let s get right to cnn s sara murray looking through all of these documents. sara, thousands of pages of transcripts. some we ve seen through the january 6th committee hearings and you ve been reading through donald trump jr. s transcripts. what are you finding in there? reporter: you know, this is obviously interesting because he s the former president s son, proximity to the former president and asking him about what was happening as the riot unfolded on january 6th and they re reading back text messages he exchanged with mark meadows. at one point don junior tells mark meadows, the former president trump, his dad has got to condemn this then says a
good morning. 11:00 a.m. eastern, 8:00 a.m. pacific. i m jose diaz-balart. we are following the very latest in the new york hush money trial of former president donald trump. now, jurors are still in the courtroom, they re relistening to some of the testimony from former tabloid mogul david pecker and trump s former lawyer and fixer michael cohen. with us now to talk more about this as we continue focusing on what exactly is happening in that courtroom, nbc news correspondent vaughn hillyard. outside the courthouse, in lower manhattan. defense attorney misty maris, temidayo aganga williams and jeremy saland, a criminal defense attorney, a former prosecutor in manhattan. so, vaughn, what is the latest, they are now focusing in on the third of four questions that the jury wanted to hear again. reporter: exactly. these were very four specific passages they wanted read back to them. they made this request yesterday afternoon before leaving for the day. there is deliberation bet
committee dropping a brand-new batch of key testimony and for the first time we are now seeing interview transcripts from 19 additional witnesses and they include some of the closest people inside former president trump s inner circle. his son, donald trump jr., former fox news anchor kirsten gillibrand as w kimberly guile so let s get right to cnn s sara murray looking through all of these documents. sara, thousands of pages of transcripts. some we ve seen through the january 6th committee hearings and you ve been reading through donald trump jr. s transcripts. what are you finding in there? reporter: you know, this is obviously interesting because he s the former president s son, proximity to the former president and asking him about what was happening as the riot unfolded on january 6th and they re reading back text messages he exchanged with mark meadows. at one point don junior tells mark meadows, the former
from doing it because they were able to band together in same we are going to put france first. that s what ended up happening. the media has some complicity unwitting possibly. in sowing the chaos. i would like your theory. greg: juan, you are slightly older than me. do you remember how conservatives and the 70s were marked about a russian under every bed. it was considered hysteria. fundamentally we were right all along about the russian influence. at least on campuses and in these antiwar movements. correct? juan: i don t remember it that way. reading back, what you cited, joe mccarthy very real and traumatizing for the american body politic in the 50s that some would be identifying, blacklisting people, labeling
are doing it explicitly to destroy sony s reputation. so all the stuff we re seeing now and not just the gender pay disparity but embarrassing e-mail, a sony executive talking smack about a star. it s giving the criminals what they wanted, isn t it? it is. there s a question about complicity or not. the important thing to remember is these documents were published publicly by the hackers themselves. they ve been distributed through the media, but they ve been made public long before we decided to do anything with them. sony i got to think that it s real crisis mode. you have got a situation in which people are reading back and forths about films in development in which executives are saying nasty things about stars. the idea that anyone will want to work with them again, this is real tangible reputational damage. oh, my gosh, first that comes to mind is angelina jolie. go ahead and attack her. right there, i don t know what s going to happen.