Doc . About the Stormy Daniels hush money deal. Todd blanche repeating the word lie or lying 35 times so far while questioning cohen. Im chris jansing, alongside my colleague andrea mitchell. Constantly trying to pin the blame on someone else and hes being asked to answer for past statements where he celebrated the idea of seeing his former boss behind bars. I want to bring back our panel, vaughn hillyard, danny cevallos, catherine christian, and jeremy soland. Okay, jeremy, i just got new statistics in, are you ready . Are you sitting down . I am sitting. The total cohen time on the stand, 12 hours, 52 minutes. Total cohen cross, 4 hours and 40 minutes. High point, low point so far that the jurors may take away from this . I think the low point, depending how youre defining this is the cross. I dont think the cross has hammered home what the defense wants to hammer home. The high point for the prosecution is he was contrite, yeah, he lied. Again, may not want him to be your neighborho
President biden should have pardoned mr. Trump. Also tonight, the attempted assassination, a man walking up to slovakias Prime Minister shooting him multiple times. Aides pushing the wounded politician into a car and a man tackled on the ground. The Prime Ministers condition tonight. The barge slamming into a bridge in galveston, texas, causing a partial collapse and unleashing an oil spill. One Community Island cut off. Opening statements in the Bribery Trial of senator bob menendez. The defense suggesting those gold bars didnt belong to menendez but to his wife. A heartstopping new dash cam video from a semi truck as a crash sends it dangling off a bridge. The recordbreaking filibuster in missouri as democrats wage a battle over Abortion Rights. And the athletes dominating the world of womens golf and swinging for a shot at gold in the paris olympics. Announcer this is Nbc Nightly News with lester holt. Good evening, and welcome. Not one but two president ial debates are on the books
Trump, the president ial candidates now agreeing to meet on a debate stage next month. They dont like each other, they dont respect each other, and the last time around it was a brawl. The move sends a bolt of lightning into a campaign thats been centered on a New York City courtroom. How the big change both sides agree to will make this debate sound and feel completely different from 2020. Plus, while trumps trial is dark, senator Bob Menendezs Corruption Trial is just getting going. Opening statements expected to start in the next hour. The new jersey democrat accused of accepting a car, cash, even gold bars in exchange for official acts. Well get the very latest from the courtroom in just a minute. And unicef just issuing a critical new warning about the children stuck in rafah, even as Benjamin Netanyahu says hes not backing down from a potential invasion. A unicef spokesperson who just left rafah will join us to talk about what needs to be done. An awful lot to get to on this wedn
Index for the first time today after 139 years of history, just seconds to go before the close and the lead with jake tapper starts now ladies and gentlemen, two president ial debates have been sets. The lead starts right now President Biden and former President Trump, putting it in writing, saying that they will face off in two debates, one and just weeks here on cnn. The political jams already are flying okay, really seriously, where is Rudy Giuliani . The onetime Trump Attorney is still missing nearly three weeks after word of an indictment and officials in arizona trying to serve him with papers, charging him in alleged election scheme and their states. So how extensive has this search been plus the charges that could soon beyond the way for boeing . One of the biggest Plane Manufacturers in the world after all those investigations into deadly crashes of 7307 Max Airplanes this is Breaking News welcome to the lean. Im jake tapper. We are starting with Breaking News in the money lea
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