Good monday morning. It is 10 00 eastern. Im Ana Cabrera Reporting from new york. We begin with Donald Trumps Hush Money Trial resuming moments ago in a manhattan courtroom. Week three of this trial saw dramatic and at times emotional testimony. Today, week four is kicking off with the judge Finding Trump in contempt once again and issuing a new warning of jail time. While a new witness, the Longtime Trump Controller has taken the stand. Nbcs Vaughn Hillyard is outside the courthouse. With us our legal panel, carol lam, former u. S. Attorney and former judge, adam pollock, The New Yorker new york assistant attorney general. Vaughn, we have a new witness on the stand and action related to the gag order already this morning. Walk us through it. Reporter Jeffrey Mcconney just took the stand. He was the former controller of the Trump Organization. He worked at the trump org for 35 years before leaving his post this last year. Folks may recall that he testified for several days in the Civil
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Were used to seeing from the president. Perhaps this statement was lawyered, it was in response to a request that my colleague Ashley Parker and i made to sarah sanders, first to interview the president. He wasnt available for an interview, but she offered to get a statement from him which he provided. Look, its important because he seems to be creating some wiggle room for his son. We know from our reporting that theres anxiety in the president s inner circle including by the president himself who has fretted to associates and friends that hes worried about don jr. , worried that there could be some legal jeopardy, legal exposure there, and theres a feeling in the orbit that something could potentially happen in the next few weeks. We dont know what that might be. But this maybe the president trying to protect himself, distance himself from anything that may be afoot with his son. All right. So theres the issue of the Trump Tower Meeting which we know mueller has a good deal of inform
i could do a book of the trump white house photos. my captions would be funnier than his, but yeah, he has the right to publish photos of himself, if he so chooses. one of the things that trump took from the white house was the infamous hurricane map he had doctored with a sharpie. he reportedly gives the same treatment to many of the captions in the book. quote, ridden is telltale handwriting, a thick black scrawl of a marker, mostly upper case, beau and lots of exclamation points. and you are view, is this a book that chronicles the presidency, is it a collection of random photos with unpresidential insults, written in sharpie, that substitute for having a twitter account. what is this? i mean, i haven t seen the book. i have no plans to buy it, myself. what i ve read, and what i ve seen, it s basically a collection of his reality show
representing president trump once that trial gets underway. ashley, you were writing this weekend about the legislative agenda and how the holiday legislative tableau has emboldened trump. he has suggested that house speaker nancy pelosi is embarrassed by the impeachment inquiry. he said he believes the trial in the republican controlled senate where he s expected to be acquitted of the house charges could be beneficial to him and he sees impeachment as perhaps the best episode, the grand finale of a reality show presidency in the words of one long-term confidante who talked with trump. the president is conflicted on this. in part you see that with what he s saying about what he wants to see from a senate trial. on the one hand he has been convinced by mcconnell and other republicans that he wants a short trial. he understands it s not necessarily good for him. on the other hand, he ll talk about wanting a long trial tor