intelligence community and the justice department and they re getting close. the new details we are getting on who potentially leaked these documents plus, frightening flooding scenes out of florida, torrential rain, submerged cars, and emergency calls like this. in reference to a vehicle stuck in the flood water, caller advises she does not know how to swim. more on this wild storm and a head scratching weather realities up and down the country. we re going to start with former president trump back in manhattan this morning to be questioned under oath in a civil fraud case brought by new york s attorney general the former president just arrived at the new york attorney general s office moments ago i want to bring in nbc s rehema ellis in new york city for us, florida state attorney dave aronberg and joyce vance former u.s. attorney in alabama and msnbc legal analyst. rehema, starting with you, talk to us about what we can expect to unfold in the coming hours? rep
hello, and thank you so much for joining us it is 10:00 eastern. i m ana cabrera reporting from new york there are a lot of fast-moving stories we re staying on top of this hour. right now donald trump is sbak in new york, just over a week aftering after being indicted by the manhattan district attorney. the former president will be questioned in another case this morning, this one involves new york s attorney general. remember, he pled the fifth hundreds of times in his first deposition in this case, which we have on tape, but according to new reporting, as of now he is not expected to plead the fifth this time. if that s the case, why then and not now. also overnight, a mixed ruling of sorts in the battle over this abortion drug mifepristone, what the new ruling means for women across the country sk. and just in the last hour and a half or so, president biden s most extensive comments yet on the massive intelligence leak from the pentagon there s a full blown investigation goin
testimony. what happens in court all the time, this was not a court proceeding but a congressional hearing. this is a far cry. you ll have cooperating witnesses who will have hick jumsjum ups along the way if it s a complicated scheme. at the end of the day, the prosecutor asked the jury to consider the entirety of the testimony and the materiality of the testimony and says look, with respect to the couple of things, you know, in the hypothetic hypothetical, he seemed to stumble a little bit but look at what the other testimony was and look how it was corroborated and testified and spoke confidently and honestly about the payment to stormy daniels and the other woman and had the checks to show it and those checks clearly showed donald trump s signature. so focus on that, ladies and gentlemen. don t focus on this sort of sbak and forth whether or not he talked about a pardon, who asked for the pardon first. that s not important.
it is a bit of a pattern. there s no walking back that can change what you just laid out in terms of rand paul s career and the challenge he s had around racial rhetoric, the kinds of things he s done over this past week in wisconsin in terms of talking about the prison industrial complex and how it affects black and brown communities is important work, but it just smacks of being purely political. it smacks of being purely an attempt to outreach to a specific community, every time he gets drawn sbak into these things. just to your earlier question, steve, the southern poverty law center has documented a rise in these kinds of hate groups. we certainly have seen study about the ways in which the internet has become a space for racial hate to percolate. we can certainly say that republicans somehow and for some reason believe that these folk, the folk who still hold on to these old school racial ideologies are a part of their base. they do this all the time.