The fault is not in our stars, but in ourselves, that we are underlings. If you love shakespeare, that passage might be on your mind because this week, we saw maga faithful republicans make the latest trump pilgrimage, showing felty at the trial of a man accused of Making Hush Money payments to stormy daniels, former Adult Film Star actress, to stop her from going public with their alleged affair in the 2016 election era. We saw these republicans, indoctrinated by trump, do this not once, not twice, but three times. Three times point monday, tuesday, and yesterday, three groups of the red tie brigade, most, members of the legislative branch of our federal government, skipped out on their day jobs to do Donald Trumps beatings and attacked this nations criminal Justice System. Weve never seen anything like this. While this Performative Display of devotion to trump is a lot of things, unethical, antidemocratic, demoralizing, and karen g, is also, and this isnt exactly a journalistic way o
Welcome to a special twohour edition of the beat. Im katie phang. Were nearing the end of the first Criminal Trial of a former u. S. President donald trump. Next week the case could be in the hand of the jury. Before that happens, Michael Cohen will be back on the Witness Stand Monday for a third day of cross examination by trumps defense attorney todd blanche. The defenses focus so far has been to try and portray the states key witness as a serial liar, someone who cannot be trusted and who is only out for revenge against his former boss. The word lie was used more than 60 times in court yesterday. Through what felt at times like A Meandering Cross Examination Blanche may have been able to poke a hole in cohens credibility as a witness during questioning about one of the phone calls from october 2016 that cohen testified earlier in the week he had made with trump, allegedly telling him the payoff to Stormy Daniels was being handled. Yesterday cohen admitted that he was having trouble
While his own lawyer roasts him. Look, i get the defenses argument that you cant trust Michael Cohen because he hates donald trump, but, to be fair, everyone who has ever worked with donald trump hates donald trump. At some point, you have to be like, i think its trump. We also learned what the defense ordered for lunch today. 14 pizzas, four cheese, five pepperoni, four sausage and pepperoni, and one chicken, bacon, and ranch. No word yet on what trumps lawyers ordered. Boom, boom. Okay. Good morning. Welcome to morning joe. Willie, it is, today, officially, i have triple sourced this, friday. She did. Yes. We did it. Friday, may 17th, everybody. We made it. Welcome to morning joe. Along with joe, willie, and me, we have the host of Way Too Early, White House Bureau chief at politico, Jonathan Lemire. And Associate Editor, the great euGene Robinson. Jonathan lemire going to hang his American Flag upside down because the red sox lost last night. I did text that to you last night. It wa
The 11th hour with Stephanie Ruhle starts now. Tonight, Michael Cohen back on the stand. The former president s defense team grows him on a 2016 phone call and paints him as a liar. How todays heated testimony could impact the jury. Plus, a new trump entourage outside the courtroom. How republican antics in new york are risking gop control in washington. Then, new reporting on why some wall street donors may be warming. As The 11th Hour gets underway on this thursday night. Good evening once again, i am Stephanie Ruhle. We are now 173 days away from the election and today outside of manhattan courthouse people were lined up in the rain, hoping to witness the latest developments in Donald Trumps criminal trial. Inside the courtroom was another day of tough Cross Examination. Defense attorney todd blanche leaned hard into the former fixers credibility issues, pressing for his history of lying and criminal record while accusing him of being out for revenge. Blanche challenged cohens claim
Back and you can always check in with me. The last word is next. , Donald Trumps red necktie friends, who alex was just talking about, came to the courthouse this week to praise one of the criminal defendants in the building and to attack District Attorney often bragged , who donald trump falsely accuses of spending all his time and resources on the prosecution of donald trump. The people Versus Harvey wind team, we are moving forward in that manner. We intend to retry it, and the court sets a window for trial. We are already moving forward with that matter, having conversations with survivors, censoring their wellbeing and pursuing justice. We are here, now, because the work of the office goes on in so many ways, as those of you have covered the office know the breadth of our work and that work continues. We have the expertise and resources to take on tough cases while dropping down crime alongside law enforced. That includes dropping shootings down 40 in manhattan, murder is down 17