Friday. Weve been desensitized, and weve been trained to think that the airport experience is horrible. Why should that be . That only happened just recently. You know, before it was the miracle of flight. Traveling was exciting. Reporter but for most americans, its been a long time since flying was anything close to exciting. Smaller seats, fuller plane, and often dark, dingy terminals that feel a bit like bus stations. We invented the aviation system, and we dont have one of the top 30 airports in the world. Records tory barnes is a Vice President of the u. S. Travel association. We dont need a taj mahal. Were not asking for that. We just need the government and private sector to be willing to invest in making it a better system. Reporter the average airport in the u. S. Is now 40 years old. Experts estimate 128 billion in new investment is needed over the next five years just to keep up with the growing number of flyers. If things stay the way they are now, will travelers experience
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Alongside andrea mitchell. Our continuing coverage will continue with jose diazbalart next. Good afternoon, great to be with you. Im jose diazbalart in for katy tur. It has been a roladex of witnesses. The director of oval office operations, Madeleine Westerhout is on the witness stand. During her time she was known as trumps gate keeper. Westerhouts testimony comes after Stormy Daniels second round on the stand earlier today. Daniel was grilled on the details of the alleged sexual encounter and the 130,000 payment that followed. I want to start with whats happening right now inside the courtroom. Joining us from outside the New York City courthouse is Nbc News National Correspondent Yasmin Vossoughian, criminal defense attorney, and msnbc legal analyst, danny cevallos, and new York Law School professor and former manhattan assistant district attorney, rebecca. Bring us up to speed on whats happening now. Reporter im not a lawyer. Im trying to be one on tv. The way im seeing this, and
Court transcript former lawyer revealing new details about the Hush Money Payment been for the Adult Film Star, Keith Davidson, drawing connections between the deal and the 2016 president ial election, acknowledging he asked what have we done when trump won the defense seizing on davidsons history of Celebrity Clients with sensational cases in hopes of undermining his credibility. For the next hour, well take you inside the courtroom from gavel to gavel will break down todays most important developments and look ahead to whats next welcome to our viewers here in the United States and around the world im wolf blitzer with a Special Report in the Situation Room that trump trial today. De six of the testimony against donald trump wrapped up in New York City just a short while ago. Lets get right to the breaking news on what we learned the final witness of the De A Tech Analyst open the door for the prosecution to introduce a phone call involving trump into evidence. Cnns Kara Scannell is
So, at times we have heard from this president. We havent heard from him in recent days. Dont know if he will pop up to a microphone during this break. But we will be all over it if and when that should happen. Earlier, the defense and prosecution teams were questioning Michael Cohens former banker and previous to that, the judge issued the president with a hefty fine, A Thousand Dollars per violation for that the judge said happened per his gag order. He also threatened possible jail time for any further violations of a gag order. The president is the only one under a gag order in this entire case. Not the convicted professional liar, Michael Cohen, former President Trump is. Its day nine of the trial. Trump faces 34 counts of falsifying Business Records and those counts are in connection with to payments back in 2016 allegedly to cover up an extramarital affair earlier today at the courthouse. Not on the Campaign Trail. Six months is pretty close. November 5th is going to go down imp