Santa newsnight starts now the circus comes to the courtroom. Thats tonight on these nine good evening. Im abby phillip the new york tonight. Tensions and chaos erupt inside of the courtroom. Let me set the scene for you. The trump team made a game time decision to call a witness, robert costello. Hes a former Legal Advisor to Michael Cohen. Now about 14 minutes into his testimony, cohen, costello vividly demonstrated why he may have caught trumps the tension. But the Presiding Judge was not amused costello rolled his eyes. A judge merchan, he let out an audible sigh after an objection. And the transcript, maybe the best way to describe what happened next in that courtroom. The judge, he says, i wanted to discuss proper decorum in my courtroom. Costello, right judge okay. So when there is a witness on the stand, if you dont like my ruling, you dont say, jeez. Okay. And then you dont say strike it because im the only one who can strike testimony in the courtroom. Do you, understand that
Thanks so much for joining us as always. Kentucky and georgia polls, they have just closed . Wow, okay. All eyes are on georgia where another case against trump hangs in the balance. And tonight Voters Decide on whether to reelect Fulton County d. A. Fani willis. Take a load off fanny. And judge mcafee, will they be saved by the voters tossed to the curve. Results coming in at the about m of the screen. Any major developments as they come in. First, ya beyond a reasonable dt thats the focus of tonights angle. We are never going to know just how much this trump trial cost the taxpayers of new york, but it has to be, i dont know, in the tens of millions of dollars . And for every hour spent on this was one hour less spent on prosecuting real criminals still terrorizing the city, not that has ever been alvin braggs priority. We know that he is on the side of the criminal. His sole focus has been to nail donald trump no matter what it took, no matter how he had to contort the law, no matte
Good day. Im jose diazbalart back with you for another hour. Andrea mitchell is on assignment. We are keeping watch on the Manhattan Courthouse where the jury is back in the courtroom and Donald Trumps defense team is starting crossexamination of a key witness in the former president s first criminal trial. The questions towards Stormy Daniels former attorney. Earlier today, a Second Gag Order Hearing for additional alleged violations after judge merchan found trump in context tuesday and warned the only way to deter further violations might be jail time. The state insisting its not what they are after in hopes of Keeping Disruptions to a minimum. The first violations were done on social media on his campaign website. We begin this hour with nbcs Yasmin Vasiljevs and jeffrey sloman. Whats the latest from inside the court . The question going into this was, what was the purpose of davidsons testimony when it comes to the prosecution . That was setting up the purpose, the context of how
next 24 hours. 150 palestinian prisoners will be handed over in exchange, we think, for 50 hostages taken by the terrorist group. jeff joins us live from tel aviv. jeff. sometimes this is the most dangerous part of a war, when you have an upcoming pause in the fighting. there is not a pause right now. it will not go into effect until 10:00 a.m. tomorrow. that is part of the reason you are seeing the smoke rise above gaza. later today, we learned we ll be getting a press conference, news conference from prime minister netanyahu. the first comments he makes since they came to this agreement with hamas around 3 a.m. local time temperature took six hours to get to this decision. prior to the meeting, prime minister netanyahu called it a tough decision, but the right decision. under this brokered deal, israel will get 50 hostages, women and children, and israel will release 150 palestinian prisoners. as far as hostages being released from gaza, they will come out in groups of 10
jesse watters along with judge jeanine pirro, jessica tarlov, dana perino, and brian kilmeade. it s 5:00 in new york city and this is the five. somebody call fire marshal jamaal bowman. joe biden almost burnt down the white house. the big guy blowing out some big flames for his 81st birthday. biden s staff posting this photo to social media thinking there is nothing wrong with the site of a man tightly gripping the sides of a table while a bonfire rages on top of his cake. the white house thinks voters concerns over biden are all a big joke with this caption, thanks for the birthday well wishes today, every one. turns out on your 146th birthday, you run out of space for candles. reassuring. karine jean-pierre also had some jokes. try not to laugh at her assessment of the presidents stamina. i would put the presidents stamina, the president s wisdom, the ability to get this done on behalf of the american people, against anyone. anyone of any day of the week. we are