Special Saturday Night at nine eastern ac30 60 starts now good evening. On what what a blockbuster de the criminal hush money trial. The former president blockbuster, because after what has at times been a man during crossexamination, the prosecutions most important witness, Michael Cohen, today, trump attorney todd blanche was able to repeatedly raised questions about cohens honesty, not just in the past, but his honesty in his testimony before this jury this week, i was in the courtroom this morning just before the lunch break. Blanche presented Text Messages to cohen between him and former trump bodyguard Keith Schiller. The messages were from october 24, 2016 and they appear to contradict Testimony Cohen gave monday on direct examination that goes to the heart of the alleged scheme to falsify Business Records earlier in the week, cohen testified about Texting Schiller he said under oath that he needed to talk to trump urgently and schiller was always by his psi. He testified that h
American data is not discriminate searched by intelligence authorities. Ok. I was up here doing my tap dance. Theres a pleasure to introduce stuart baker. The former general counsel for the National Security agency. He is going to be our first speaker. Lets do it. Stuart i am really delighted to be able to introduce matt olson. He advertised that. We did until the events over last weekend. We ask who can talk about this topic, which is 702. The suggestion of the white house was that we ask matt olson to do this. We are really grateful for you to doing this on short notice. Matt is perfect for this topic. He has a deep experience in the Intelligence Community. He was counsel at the National Security agency. In between there before he came back to the Justice Department where he now runs the security division. He has a long and deep experience. That has that she has been one of the principal advocates are for renewing section 702. Why dont i just start asking you matt, what is the 702 pr
Versus donald j trump. I should be a lot of different places right now campaigning. Im sitting here. For the first time in history, prosecutors layout a criminal case against a former american president to a jury. This case is about a conspiracy to corrupt the 2016 president ial election. Tonight, the Opening Statements from the prosecution and the defense and the first witness takes the stand. We should be expecting a lot more of david. Rachel maddow was inside the courtroom to see it all. We got a road map as to how the case is going to go. As donald trump goes on trial. He seems old, tired, and mad. Tonight, which maddow, Lawrence Odonnell, alex wagner, stephanie ruhle, msnbc legal experts are all here. Special Coverage Of Trump On Trial begins. Now. Thank you for joining us tonight for this special Primetime Recap of the first ever criminal trial of former u. S. President , the first ever criminal trial of a major parties summative nominee as their candidate for president. I know R
The people of new york versus donald j. Trump. I should be in florida now. I should be in a lot of different places campaigning, and im sitting here. For the first time in history, prosecutors lay out a criminal case against a former american president to a jury. This case is about a conspiracy to corrupt the 2016 president ial election. Tonight the Opening Statements from the prosecution and the defense. And the first witness takes the stand. We should be expecting a lot more of david Rachel Maddow was inside the courtroom to see it all. We got a real road map today as to how this case is going to go. As donald trump goes on trial. He seems old and tired and mad. Tonight Rachel Maddow, joy reid, chris hayes, Lawrence Odonnell, alex wagner, jen sake, stef knew rhule, katie pham, and nbc legal experts are all here. Special Coverage Of Trump On Trial begins now. Thank you for joining us tonight for this special Primetime Recap of the first ever criminal trial of a former u. S. President
Tonight, the Opening Statements from the prosecution and the defense. The first witness takes the stand. We should be expecting more of david Rachel Maddow was in the courtroom to see it all. We got a road map to how the case will go. As donald trump goes on trial. He seems old and tired and mad. Tonight, Rachel Maddow , joy reid, chris hayes, Lawrence Odonnell, alex wagner, jen psaki, stephanie ruhle, and legal experts are all here. Special Coverage Of Trump On Trial begins now. Thank you for joining us for this special prime time recap of the first ever criminal trial of a former u. S. President. The first ever criminal trial of a major partys presumptive nominee is a candidate for president. I am Rachel Maddow at Msnbc Headquarters along with Lawrence Odonnell and chris hayes and jen psaki. We will be joined by joy reid and alex wagner and stephanie ruhle. Are legal experts Andrew Weissmann and catherine will keep us on the straight and narrow. Lisa ruben is here and Susanne Craig w